God finishes His instructions on the offerings He has ordained. He addresses the priests’ portions of each of these offerings. The priests were given a portion of every offering brought before God EXCEPT those offered for themselves or the whole congregation. We have already seen that those bringing the offering are expected to do a […]
We look at the guilt offering now. I’m SO glad this one is included because it covers those who do intentional sins too. When we looked at the sin offering last time, the text gave the specific definition of acts covered under that offering as “unintentional.” I don’t know about you but I find that […]
God addresses the sin offering in our reading today. If the sacrificial system were still in place today we would be in trouble! Something I noticed right away in reading this whole section is that the offerings were for sins that were “unintentional.” Some of the examples given confuse me as to how the person […]
Today we learn about the peace offering. This is the third offering God instructs Moses in and also a dietary law set down. Like with the burnt offering, the one bringing the offering does much of the work. This includes killing the animal, draining its blood and separating out the pieces to be burned. And […]
We come to the second type of offering that is to be brought by the people. Grain offerings are God’s topic of choice now. When I started reading this chapter I was gobsmacked by the thought of putting frankincense on things that were going to be ingested. The grain offerings being brought, all but a […]
