Leviticus 5:4-6
if a soul This relates to rash oaths or vows, which a man was afterwards unable, or which it would have been sinful, to perform. to do evil Lev 27:2-34; Josh 2:14, Josh 9:15; Judg 9:19, Judg 11:31, Judg 21:7, Judg 21:18; 1Sam 1:11; 1Sam 14:24-28, 1Sam 24:21-22, 1Sam 25:22; 2Sam 21:7; 2Kgs 6:31; Ps 132:2-5; Eccl 5:2-6; Ezek 17:18-19; Matt 14:7, Matt 14:9; Mark 6:23; Acts 23:12 confess Lev 16:21, Lev 26:40; Num 5:7; Josh 7:19; Ezra 10:11-12; Job 33:27; Ps 32:5; Prov 28:13; Jer 3:13; Dan 9:4; Rom 10:10; 1John 1:8-10 trespass offering It is remarkable, that in this and the following verse, the sacrifice offered is indifferently called asham, a trespass offering, and chattath, a sin offering; yet the Marginal References show that these differ in several respects. Sin offerings were sometimes offered for the whole congregation; trespass offerings never, but only for particular persons. Bullocks were sometimes used for sin offerings, never for trespass offerings. The blood of the sin offerings was put on the horns of the altar, that of the trespass offerings was only sprinkled round the bottom of the altar. The sin offering seems to have been for the expiation of offences committed in matters of religion, from a mistake or inadvertency respecting the law; but the trespass offering was required for the casual deviations from the ritual law, when well known, or for crimes against moral precepts, implying injustice to man. Lev 4:28, Lev 4:32, Lev 6:6, Lev 7:1-7, Lev 14:12-13, Lev 19:21-22; Num 6:12; Ezek 40:39, Ezek 42:13 a female Lev 4:28, Lev 4:32 the priest Lev 4:20
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