The regulations in this chapter cover "sin offerings" - which were apparently special for circumstances in which a person or group had fallen into sin unintentionally. Once that was discovered, this type of offering would be made to cleanse the affected person/people.
What really surprised me here were two things:
- It seems that every time one sinned accidentally this was to take place. If that is correct, and was followed to the letter, I would expect a non-stop stream of people coming to give offerings day and night!
- For the way things are phrased, at least in the NIV I was reading tonight, it sounds like one wasn't considered guilty of the sin until one had realized it had happened. This was backwards of what I thought previously: I always assumed that once one committed a sin (intentionally or not) one was guilty of it; this, though, makes it seem that guilt traces back to the moment of realization of the sin. I suppose that could be instantly after - or even during - the sin, or it could be days, weeks, or years later.
How interesting these items are! Furthermore, I wonder what one was to do as restitution if one sinned willfully...
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