Leviticus 5

 

Sin = Greek word NT:264 =  (as a negative particle) to err, especially (morally) to sin: for your faults, offend, sin, trespass.

 

Isaiah 43:25  I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

 

Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

• Your sins are forgiven = nailing your sins to his cross

15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

• Principalities and powers = Devil

Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

• I want your loving kindness, I want you to study My word
• I want you to love Me, If you love Me = keep My commandments
• Matthew 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
• Righteous = self righteous people
• Mercy = love
• 1 Corinthians 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
  4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
  6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
  7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us:
• Jesus was sacrifice for our sins = no more sacrificed

Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

 

Leviticus 5:1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

• Iniquity = for the punishment due to it
• Soul = a person
• Hear = because he heard
• Swearing = adjuration
• Is = he is
• Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.

• Be hidden = if he forget his uncleanness.
• This clause = and if is

3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.

• Man = Hebrew word = Adam

4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.

• Pronouncing with his lips = speaking heedlessly
• Evil . . . good = Figure of speech (of the Whole), to include all human actions.

5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:

6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.

7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the Lord; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:

9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.

10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

11 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.

• His offering = Hebrew word = korban = something brought near the altar, a sacrificial present
• For the poor only a little flour = Compare Lev 4:23,28.
• All equally forgiven = Compare Lev 4:26,31 and Lev 5:13.
• Sin offering = not a minchah, Lev 2:11
• Sin offering = Hebrew word = chatta'ah (khat-taw-aw'); or chatta'th (khat-tawth'); from OT:2398; an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender:  punishment (of sin), purifying (for sin), sinner, offering.

12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the Lord: it is a sin offering.

13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat offering.

14 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

• Spake = This formula denotes another communication made at a different time, and gives a further development of the laws of the trespass offering.
• Note that in this book God "spake" at thirty-five "sundry times", and in ten "divers manners"
• (1) To Moses alone (Lev 5:14; 6:1,19; 8:1; 14:1; 22:26; 23:26).
• (2) To Moses, to speak to Aaron alone (Lev 16:1).
• (3) To Moses, to speak to "Aaron and his sons" (Lev 6:8,24; 22:1).
• (4) To Moses, to speak to "the priests, the sons of Aaron" (Lev 21:1).
• (5) To Moses, to speak to "Aaron and his sons, and in all the children of Israel" (Lev 17:1; 21:16 (Compare Lev 5:24); Lev 22:17).
• (6) To Moses, to speak to "the children of Israel" (Lev 1:1; 4:1; 7:22,28; 12:1; 18:1; 20:1; 23:1,9,23; 24:1,13; 25:1; 27:1).
• (7) To Moses, to speak "to all the congregation of the children of Israel" (Lev 19:1).
• (8) To Moses and Aaron conjointly (Lev 13:1; 14:33).
• (9) To Moses and Aaron, to speak to "the children of Israel" (Lev 11:1; 15:1).
• (10) To Aaron alone (Lev 10:8).

15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:

• Trespass = Hebrew word = ma'al = to act covertly; to be faithless, especially in covenant matters, either with God (Lev 26:40; Num 31:16; Deut 32:51) or between husband and wife (Num 5:12,27).
• Not the same word as in verses: Lev 5:6,7,15; 6:16, and below in this verse.
• Holy things = such as first fruits, firstborn
• Estimation = valuation
• Made here by Moses, transferred by him to the priests.

16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

• Add =  In trespass in Holy things sacrifice comes first (Lev 5:15) and addition afterwards.
• In human affairs the addition comes first (Lev 6:5) and sacrifice follows (Lev 6:7).

17 And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

• Any = any one of these things specified in Lev 5:15.
• Wist it not = knew it not.
• This effectually disposes of the fallacy that it is only sincerity that matters.
• Note the repetition of the words in verses: Lev 5:17-19 to emphasize this.

18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.

19 It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the Lord.

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

 

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25