1“Now this is the law of the guilt (trespass, restitution, repayment) offering, which is most holy: 2The guilt offering must be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest shall sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar. 3And all the fat from it shall be offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, 4both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys. 5The priest shall burn them on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD; it is a guilt offering. 6Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
7The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. 8As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him. 9Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pana or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it, 10and every grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.
Gills Exposition
“Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering,.... Or the various rites and rules to be observed at the offering of it: the persons for whom it was to be made are described in the two preceding chapters, Leviticus 5:1 both such that sinned through ignorance, and knowingly, and here the place and parts of the offering, and how to be disposed of, are declared:
it is most holy; wholly devoted for sacred use, either to the Lord, or to his priests; there were some things the Jews call light holy things, and others most holy in the highest degree, of this sort was the trespass offering.”
“most holy in the highest degree, of this sort was the trespass offering.”
What was a guilt, trespass offering for?
“The trespass or guilt offering is primarily about making reparations. It demonstrates the seriousness of violations against God (even accidental ones) and against one’s fellow man.”
A neighbor who owns forty acres next our our property allows us to walk and hunt his property and in exchange I keep an eye on it for him.
Recently, he got fed up with all the trespassing from ATV’s and had me install a fence blocking the trail the trespassers were using. Another neighbor disliked having “his” trail blocked and tore down the fence, took it and hid it next to a home he uses. Law enforcement is now trying to locate him for theft and trespass.
Question: Would these verses of the guilt and trespass offering be applied in this situation?
When we are guilty of sin against God and our fellow man, we are saying that we are more important that they are. All that matters is me, not them.
Blessings, David
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