SIN-OFFERING

- Probable origin of Ge 4:4,7 - WAS OFFERED . For sins of ignorance Le 4:2,13,22,27 . At the consecration of priests Ex 29:10,14; Le 8:14 . At the consecration of Levites Nu 8:8 . At the expiration of a Nazarite's vow Nu 6:14 . On the day of atonement Le 16:3,9 - Was a most holy sacrifice Le 6:25,29 - CONSISTED OF . A young bullock for priests Le 4:3; 9:2,8; 16:3,6 . A young bullock or he-goat for the congregation Le 4:14; 16:9; 2Ch 29:23 . A male kid for a ruler Le 4:23 . A female kid or female lamb for a private person Le 4:28,32 - Sins of the offerer transferred to, by imposition of hands Le 4:4,15,24,29; 2Ch 29:23 - Was killed in the same place as the burnt-offering Le 4:24; 6:25 - THE BLOOD OF . For a priest or for the congregation, brought by the priest into the tabernacle Le 4:5,16 . For a priest or for the congregation, sprinkled seven times before the Lord, outside the vail, by the priest with his finger Le 4:6,17 . For a priest of for the congregation, put upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering by the priest with his finger Le 4:25,30 . In every case poured at the foot of the altar of burnt offering Le 4:7; 18:25,30; 9:9 - Fat of the inside, kidneys, burned on the altar of burnt offering Le 4:8-10,19,26,31; 9:10 - When for a priest or the congregation, the skin, carcass, burned without the camp Le 4:11,12,21; 6:30; 9:11 - Was eaten by the priests in a holy place, when its blood had not been brought into the tabernacle Le 6:26,29,30 - Aaron, congregation, its blood not having been brought into the tabernacle Le 10:16-18; 9:9,15 - Whatever touched the flesh of, was rendered holy Le 6:27 - Garments sprinkled with the blood of, to be washed Le 6:27 - Laws respecting the vessels used for boiling the flesh of Le 6:28 - Was typical of Christ's sacrifice 2Co 5:21; Heb 13:11-13

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Sin-offering. Sin-offering
(Heb. hattath), the law of, is given in detail in Lev. 4-6:13; 9:7-11, 22-24; 12:6-8; 15:2, 14, 25-30; 14:19, 31; Num. 6:10-14. On the day of Atonement it was made with special solemnity (Lev. 16:5, 11, 15). The blood was then carried into the holy of holies and sprinkled on the mercy-seat. Sin-offerings were also presented at the five annual festivals (Num. 28, 29), and on the occasion of the consecration of the priests (Ex. 29:10-14, 36). As each individual, even the most private member of the congregation, as well as the congregation at large, and the high priest, was obliged, on being convicted by his conscience of any particular sin, to come with a sin-offering, we see thus impressively disclosed the need in which every sinner stands of the salvation of Christ, and the necessity of making application to it as often as the guilt of sin renews itself upon his conscience. This resort of faith to the perfect sacrifice of Christ is the one way that lies open for the sinner’s attainment of pardon and restoration to peace. And then in the sacrifice itself there is the reality of that incomparable worth and preciousness which were so significantly represented in the sin-offering by the sacredness of its blood and the hallowed destination of its flesh. With reference to this the blood of Christ is called emphatically “the precious blood,” and the blood that “cleanseth from all sin” (1 John 1:7).