Leviticus 5:1-19
Guilt offering:
Does not speak up when he hears a public charge to testify regarding something h has seen or learned about. Or touches anything ceremonially unclean, or touches human uncleanness, or thoughtlessly takes an oath to do anything, whether good or evil. When anyone is guilty in any of these ways, he must confess in what any he has sinned and a penalty for the sin he has committed. He must bring a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. Or he must bring two doves or two young pigeons to the Lord as a penalty for his sin, if he cannot afford two doves, he is to bring ten ephah of fine flour for a sin offering, and do not put oil or incense on it.
When a person commits a violation and sins unintentionally in regard to any of the Lord's holy things he is to bring to the Lord as a penalty a ram from the flock.
If a person sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord's commands, he is to bring to the priest as a guilt offering a ram from the flock.
There was a standard pattern of ritual. Worshippers brought their offering to the forecourt of God's Tent. They laid their hand on their offering, indicating that it was their property and substitute, and slaughtered it.
The priest took the basin of blood and spattered it against the altar. He burnt a specified part with certain portions of fat. The remainder was then eaten by the priests, or by the priests and their families, or by priests and worshippers together.
Sacrifice of some sort was almost universal practice amongst ancient peoples, and Israel's sacrifices have some similarities with those of their neighbours; Nonetheless, certain features are unique.
1. Israel's absolute mono theism - belief in the on true God
2. The emphasis on ethics and morality, stemming from God's own absolute moral holiness
3. the complete absence of associated practices in other religions; no magic or sorcery.
4. the high tone of the sacrificial system: no frenzy, or prostitution, orgies, fertility rites, human sacrifice, etc.
Why?
Guilt offering: People afford not so expensive or higher quality animal as sin offering.
Guilt offering are for those who unintentionally did something and committed it.
How?
God want us confess our sin and living in the right way in speaking, and touch something and completely follow God's commands.
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