![]() ![]() The RamĪn obvious difference from the sin offering is that, in the case of the trespass offering, there was only one grade of sacrifice. We shall see this especially in chapter six. So it is not so much sin and what it reveals of me and my need before God, as an offering for the consequences of my sin. The stress in the trespass offering is upon “the harm that he hath done” (5:16). But in the sin offering, it would appear that it is the awareness of my sin and that it springs from a nature that is sinful. The awareness of an act of sin appears to trigger the need for each of them. This would embrace sins of omission as well as sins of commission.Ī question immediately arises as to the distinction between the sin and trespass offerings. The trespass might involve failure in the “holy things.” It could also involve trespassing against the commandments of the Lord (5:17). ![]() ![]() Thus both portions of the law were violated – God and his neighbor. ![]() There were two spheres in which a man might commit a trespass: it could be against God (5:14-19) or as a result of something done to a neighbor (although still against the Lord, 6:2). The law of the trespass offering is given to us in Leviticus 7:1-7. The trespass offering occupies the section from Leviticus 5:14 through chapter 6:7. ![]()
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