Leviticus 5:6
and let him offer from the flocks a female lamb or a she-goat, and the priest shall pray for him and for his sin.
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5let him do penance for his sin,
Cross References
Leviticus 4:28and he shall realize his sin: he shall offer an immaculate she-goat.
Leviticus 4:32But if instead he will offer from the flock a victim for his sin, specifically, an immaculate female sheep:
Leviticus 6:6Then, on behalf of his sin, he shall offer an immaculate ram from the flock, and he shall give it to the priest, according to the estimation and measure of the offense.
Leviticus 14:12he shall take a lamb and offer it for transgression, with the twelfth hin of oil. And having offered all these before the Lord,
Numbers 6:12And he shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, offering a one-year-old lamb for sin, yet in such a manner that the former days will be made null and void, because his sanctification was polluted.
Ezekiel 42:13And he said to me: “The storerooms of the north, and the storerooms of the south, which are before the separate edifice, these are holy storerooms, in which the priests, who draw near to the Lord in the Holy of Holies, shall eat. There they shall station the Holy of Holies, and the offering for sin, and for trespasses. For it is a holy place.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 5:2-7
Law of the Sin-Offering. ( b. c. 1490.) 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. 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. 3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall… Read the whole commentary →