Leviticus 4:2-3,11-12,32-5:6
– “Speak to the
people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the Lord's commandments about things not to be done, and does any
one of them, if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt
on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd
without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering…But the skin of the bull and
all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung—all the rest of the bull—he shall carry outside the camp to a
clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of
wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up...“If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering,
he shall bring a female without blemish and lay his hand on
the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where
they kill the burnt offering. Then the priest shall
take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the
horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at
the base of the altar. And all its fat he shall remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the
sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on top
of the Lord's food offerings. And the priest shall make atonement for
him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven. “If
anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a
witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he
shall bear his iniquity; or if anyone touches an unclean thing,
whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock
or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has
become unclean, and he realizes his guilt; or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort the
uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him,
when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt; or if anyone utters
with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath
that people swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it,
and he realizes his guilt in any of these; when he realizes his
guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed, he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation for the sin that he has committed, a
female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering. And the priest
shall make atonement for him for his sin.
Numbers
9:13 – But if anyone who is clean
and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did
not bring the Lord's offering at its appointed time; that man shall
bear his sin.
Isaiah 6:5 – And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the
midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of
hosts!”
Application:
- · The New Testament issues grave warnings concerning the abuse or misuse of the celebration of the Lord’s Supper.
- · As soon as an anointed priest became aware of unintentional sin, he was to bring his sin offering to the Lord. On the other hand, should the priest remain unaware of unintentional sin, this lack was atoned for on the Day of Atonement.
- · Isaiah was dismayed because anyone who saw God expected to die immediately.
- · The distinction between clean and unclean was a matter of ritual or religious purity, not a concern for physical cleanliness.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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