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Leviticus 6

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Leviticus 6 Overview

Leviticus 6 begins by completing trespass instructions for fraud, robbery, deceit, lost property, and false swearing. The offender must restore what was taken, add a fifth, and bring the appointed offering. The chapter then turns to priestly regulations for the burnt offering, meat offering, the priests’ own offering, and the sin offering, emphasizing continual fire, holy handling, and priestly responsibility.

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Before you read Leviticus 6

Coming from

Leviticus 5 introduced guilt, confession, sacrificial alternatives, and restitution involving holy things.

In this chapter

The chapter completes restitution law and gives priests detailed procedures for several offerings.

Leads into

Leviticus 7 finishes priestly regulations for trespass and peace offerings and explains priestly portions and sacrificial eating.

Key understanding

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Truth 1

Sin against another person can also be described as trespass against the LORD.

Truth 2

Repentant restitution requires returning the property and adding a fifth before the sacrificial process is complete.

Truth 3

The altar fire is to burn continually and not go out.

Truth 4

Priests are responsible for careful handling of holy offerings and holy places.

Truth 5

The priestly system involves both privilege and strict responsibility.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Connection 1

Numbers 5 repeats restitution principles for trespass against another person.

Connection 2

Exodus 22 provides earlier civil restitution laws for theft and property loss.

Connection 3

Luke 19 records Zacchaeus voluntarily making extensive restitution after receiving Jesus.

Connection 4

Hebrews 13 uses sacrifice language spiritually for Christian praise and service, while distinguishing Christ’s final sacrifice from Levitical offerings.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Keep this clear 1

Restitution is not a purchase price for eternal forgiveness; it is the required correction of measurable wrong within Israel’s law.

Keep this clear 2

The continual altar fire belongs to tabernacle worship and should not be turned into a mystical command to maintain a literal or emotional “inner fire.”

Keep this clear 3

Priestly eating of holy offerings is regulated worship, not ordinary dining.

Keep this clear 4

The chapter combines civil, sacrificial, and priestly responsibilities that should not be blurred into one category.

Read Leviticus 6 watching for…

The connection between wronging a neighbor and trespassing against the LORD.

The restoration plus one-fifth requirement.

The continual altar fire.

Which offerings priests may eat.

The repeated holiness of sacrificial handling.

Chapter outline5 sections

1-7Restitution and the trespass offering 8-13The law of the burnt offering and the continual fire 14-18The law of the grain offering 19-23The priest's grain offering 24-30The law of the sin offering

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;

Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:

Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.

And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:

And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.

And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.

And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.

And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.

The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.

And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.

And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD.

And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.

It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.

In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.

For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.

The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.

But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.

All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.

And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.