Bible Strands
Leviticus 7:1
“Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy:
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Divine instruction is delivered to the Israelite community through Moses to govern sacrificial practice. The passage introduces the procedural rules for a specific offering within the ongoing covenant regulations.
The words — תּוֹרַת (to.Rat) denotes the legal procedure or governing rule for the offering. קֹדֶשׁ קָדָשִׁים (Ko.desh ka.da.Shim) literally translates to "holy thing of holy things," establishing its supreme sacred status.
The thread — This designation and procedural framework appear alongside the sin offering in Leviticus 6:25 and reappear in Leviticus 6:17 regarding the restriction on leaven. The guilt offering regulations continue immediately in Leviticus 7:2 with slaughter and blood application instructions.
Why it lands — The text demands strict adherence to the prescribed location and handling of the offering. It requires the reader to recognize the offering’s consecrated nature and the non-negotiable boundaries of its ritual use.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
Cross-references
- Leviticus 6:17 It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
- Leviticus 6:25 “Tell Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD; it is most holy.
- Leviticus 5:1 “If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.
- Leviticus 5:14 Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Leviticus 21:22 He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,
- Leviticus 5:8 He is to bring them to the priest, who shall first present the one for the sin offering. He is to twist its head at the front of its neck without severing it;
- Leviticus 5:11 But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He must not put olive oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 14:12 Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and present it as a guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil; and he must wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
- Leviticus 19:21 The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering to the LORD.
- Numbers 6:12 He must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled.