Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “’The same law applies to both the sin offering and the guilt offering: They belong to the priest who makes atonement with them. New Living Translation “The same instructions apply to both the guilt offering and the sin offering. Both belong to the priest who uses them to purify someone, making that person right with the LORD. English Standard Version The guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. Berean Standard Bible The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. Berean Literal Bible Like the sin offering, like the guilt offering; one law is for them. The priest who makes atonement with it, unto him it shall be. King James Bible As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it. New King James Version The trespass offering is like the sin offering; there is one law for them both: the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. New American Standard Bible The guilt offering is like the sin offering: there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. NASB 1995 ‘The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. NASB 1977 ‘The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. Legacy Standard Bible The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. Amplified Bible The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one law for [both of] them: the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it for himself. Berean Annotated Bible The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. Christian Standard Bible “The guilt offering is like the sin offering; the law is the same for both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. Holman Christian Standard Bible The restitution offering is like the sin offering; the law is the same for both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. American Standard Version As is the sin-offering, so is the trespass-offering; there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith, he shall have it. Contemporary English Version The ceremony for this sacrifice and the one for sin are the same, and the meat may be eaten only by the priest who performs this ceremony of forgiveness. English Revised Version As is the sin offering, so is the guilt offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith, he shall have it. GOD'S WORD® Translation "The same instructions apply to the offering for sin and the guilt offering. Both offerings belong to the priest to make peace with the LORD. Good News Translation There is one regulation that applies to both the sin offering and the repayment offering: the meat belongs to the priest who offers the sacrifice. International Standard Version The law for the sin offering is the same as the guilt offering. It belongs to the priest who made atonement with it. NET Bible The law is the same for the sin offering and the guilt offering; it belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. New Heart English Bible "'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it. Webster's Bible Translation As the sin-offering is, so is the trespass-offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement with it shall have it. Majority Text Translations Majority Standard BibleThe guilt offering is like the sin offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. World English Bible “‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionas [is] a sin-offering, so [is] a guilt-offering; one law [is] for them; the priest who makes atonement by it—it is his. Berean Literal Bible Like the sin offering, like the guilt offering; one law is for them. The priest who makes atonement with it, unto him it shall be. Young's Literal Translation as is a sin-offering, so is a guilt-offering; one law is for them; the priest who maketh atonement by it -- it is his. Smith's Literal Translation As the sin, so the trespass: one law for them: the priest who shall expiate upon it, to him it shall be. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAs the sacrifice for sin is offered, so is also that for a trespass: the same shall be the law of both these sacrifices: it shall belong to the priest that offereth it. Catholic Public Domain Version Just as the sacrifice for sin is offered, so also for a transgression; one law shall be for both sacrifices. It shall belong to the priest who offers it. New American Bible Because the purification offering and the reparation offering are alike, both have the same ritual. The reparation offering belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. New Revised Standard Version The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is the same ritual for them; the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAs the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated As the sin offering, so is the gift offering; one Law shall be for you, and the Priest who makes atonement by it; it shall be for him. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917As is the sin-offering, so is the guilt-offering; there is one law for them; the priest that maketh atonement therewith, he shall have it. Brenton Septuagint Translation As the sin-offering, so also is the trespass-offering. There is one law of them; the priest who shall make atonement with it, his it shall be. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The 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.… Cross References The guilt offering is like the sin offering; Leviticus 5:14-19 Then the LORD said to Moses, / “If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering. / Regarding any holy thing he has harmed, he must make restitution by adding a fifth of its value to it and giving it to the priest, who will make atonement on his behalf with the ram as a guilt offering, and he will be forgiven. … Leviticus 5:6-10 and he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin. / If, however, he cannot afford a lamb, he may bring to the LORD as restitution for his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. / 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; … Numbers 5:5-8 And the LORD said to Moses, / “Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty / and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its value, and give all this to the one he has wronged. … the same law applies to both. Numbers 15:15-16 The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD. / The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.” Exodus 12:49 The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.” Leviticus 24:22 You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’” It belongs to the priest Ezekiel 44:29-30 They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them. / The best of all the firstfruits and of every contribution from all your offerings will belong to the priests. You are to give your first batch of dough to the priest, so that a blessing may rest upon your homes. Numbers 18:8-10 Then the LORD said to Aaron, “Behold, I have put you in charge of My offerings. As for all the sacred offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons as a portion and a permanent statute. / A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons. / You are to eat it as a most holy offering, and every male may eat it. You shall regard it as holy. Deuteronomy 18:1-2 The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the food offerings to the LORD; that is their inheritance. / Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them. who makes atonement with it. Leviticus 5:18 He is to bring to the priest an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock as a guilt offering. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the wrong he has committed in ignorance, and he will be forgiven. Leviticus 5:10 And the priest must prepare the second bird as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven. Leviticus 4:20 He shall offer this bull just as he did the bull for the sin offering; in this way the priest will make atonement on their behalf, and they will be forgiven. Leviticus 6:25-26 “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. / The priest who offers it shall eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. Numbers 18:9 A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons. Exodus 29:26-28 Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your portion. / Consecrate for Aaron and his sons the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the heave offering that is lifted up from the ram of ordination. / This will belong to Aaron and his sons as a regular portion from the Israelites, for it is the heave offering the Israelites will make to the LORD from their peace offerings. 1 Samuel 2:13-16 or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling / and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh. / Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.” … Treasury of Scripture As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that makes atonement therewith shall have it. the trespass Leviticus 6:25,26 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… Leviticus 14:13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy: Jump to Previous Applies Atonement Belong Guilt Guilt-Offering Law Makes Maketh Offering Priest Priest's Sin Sin-Offering Therewith Trespass Trespass-Offering WrongdoingJump to Next Applies Atonement Belong Guilt Guilt-Offering Law Makes Maketh Offering Priest Priest's Sin Sin-Offering Therewith Trespass Trespass-Offering WrongdoingLeviticus 7 1. The law of the trespass offering11. and of the peace offering 12. whether it be for a thanksgiving 16. or a vow, or a free will offering 22. the fat and the blood are forbidden 28. The priests' portion in the peace offerings 35. The whole summed up The guilt offering is like the sin offering; The guilt offering, also known as the trespass offering, and the sin offering are both part of the sacrificial system established in Leviticus. Both offerings address the issue of sin, but the guilt offering specifically deals with sins that require restitution, such as defrauding a neighbor or misusing holy things. The sin offering, on the other hand, is more general, covering unintentional sins and purification. The similarity between the two offerings highlights the comprehensive nature of atonement in the Old Testament, emphasizing the need for both reconciliation with God and restitution with others. This reflects the dual aspect of sin, affecting both divine and human relationships. the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. Persons / Places / Events 1. PriestsThe priests are the descendants of Aaron, tasked with performing sacrifices and rituals in the Tabernacle and later the Temple. They serve as mediators between God and the people of Israel. 2. Guilt Offering Also known as the trespass offering, this is a specific type of sacrifice in the Levitical system meant to atone for unintentional sins that require restitution. 3. Sin Offering Another type of sacrifice, the sin offering is made to atone for sins committed unintentionally, emphasizing purification and forgiveness. 4. Atonement A central theme in Leviticus, atonement refers to the reconciliation between God and humanity, achieved through the sacrificial system. 5. Tabernacle The portable sanctuary where the Israelites worshiped God during their journey through the wilderness, serving as the central place for sacrifices and offerings. Teaching Points Understanding AtonementThe concept of atonement in Leviticus underscores the seriousness of sin and the need for reconciliation with God. It points to the ultimate atonement made by Jesus Christ. Role of the Priesthood The priests' role in making atonement highlights the importance of mediation in the relationship between God and humanity, fulfilled in Christ as our High Priest. Equality of Sin and Guilt Offerings The equivalence of the sin and guilt offerings in Leviticus 7:7 emphasizes that all sin requires atonement, and God's provision is sufficient for all types of transgressions. Restitution and Repentance The guilt offering involves restitution, teaching us the importance of making amends and seeking forgiveness in our relationships with others. Christ as Fulfillment The sacrificial system in Leviticus foreshadows Christ's ultimate sacrifice, encouraging believers to live in gratitude and obedience to Him. Bible Study Questions and Answers 1. What is the meaning of Leviticus 7:7?2. How does Leviticus 7:7 emphasize the equality of guilt and sin offerings? 3. What does Leviticus 7:7 teach about God's provision for atonement? 4. How can we apply the principles of Leviticus 7:7 in our daily repentance? 5. How does Leviticus 7:7 connect to the New Testament understanding of Christ's sacrifice? 6. In what ways does Leviticus 7:7 highlight the role of the priesthood? 7. What does Leviticus 7:7 reveal about the role of priests in ancient Israelite society? 8. How does Leviticus 7:7 reflect the concept of justice in biblical law? 9. Why are the guilt and sin offerings treated equally in Leviticus 7:7? 10. What are the top 10 Lessons from Leviticus 7? 11. Why did Aaron offer a sin offering for his sons? 12. Leviticus 7:28-34: How do we reconcile the mandated portions for priests with modern ethical standards on religious offerings and resource distribution? 13. Leviticus 7:1-2: Why does this passage emphasize the place and method of slaughter for the guilt offering, and is there any historical or archaeological evidence supporting these specific practices? 14. In Hebrews 9:7, is there any non-biblical historical record confirming the high priest's annual entrance into the Holy of Holies for atonement? What Does Leviticus 7:7 Mean the guilt offering is like the sin offering• Both sacrifices addressed broken fellowship with the Lord—one for specific acts of desecration or defrauding (guilt offering, Leviticus 5:14-19), the other for missing the mark more generally (sin offering, Leviticus 4:1-35). • By declaring, “The guilt offering is like the sin offering,” God shows that every kind of sin—whether deliberate trespass or unwitting failure—requires shed blood for restoration (Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 9:22). • These offerings foreshadow Christ, “who offered Himself for us, a fragrant aroma and sacrifice to God” (Ephesians 5:2). Isaiah later speaks of Messiah as a “guilt offering” (Isaiah 53:10), underscoring that both Old Testament sacrifices converge in Him. the same law applies to both • Procedures, handling of the blood, and required holiness of participants were identical (compare Leviticus 6:24-30 with 7:1-6). God’s unchanging standard reminds us He is “the same yesterday and today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). • The worshiper could not invent a substitute method. In matters of atonement, divine prescription, not human preference, rules (Proverbs 14:12). • Consistent law prepared Israel to recognize the once-for-all sacrifice: “We have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:10). it belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it • After the fat was burned to the Lord, the meat became food for the officiating priest (Leviticus 7:6; Numbers 18:9-10). This provided for those who served at the altar, a principle reaffirmed in the New Testament: “Those who serve at the altar partake in the offerings of the altar” (1 Corinthians 9:13). • The transfer of the offering to the priest pictures our exchange with Christ. He bears our sin and, in turn, “we become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). • The shared meal element signified restored fellowship—God, priest, and forgiven worshiper all benefiting from the same offering (Leviticus 10:17). summary Leviticus 7:7 teaches that both sin and guilt demand the same God-given remedy: a blood sacrifice that completely satisfies divine justice. The uniform law underscores God’s consistent character, and the priest’s portion illustrates how atonement not only removes sin but sustains those who mediate it. Ultimately, the verse directs us to Jesus Christ, the true sin and guilt offering, whose once-for-all sacrifice secures eternal fellowship with God. (7) There is one law for them.--That is, the same rule, as stated in Leviticus 6:27-28, applies to both the sin offering and the trespass offering; hence what is omitted in the regulation of the one must be supplied from the directions given in the other.Verses 7-10 contain a general precept or note as to the priests' portion in the sin offering, trespass offering, burnt offering, and meat offering. The officiating priest was to have the flesh of the trespass offering and of the sin offering (except the fat burnt on the altar), and the skin of the burnt offering and the cooked meat offerings (except the memorial burnt on the altar), while the meat offerings of flour and of parched grains, which could be kept longer, were to be the property of the priestly body in general, all the sons of Aaron,... one as much as another. The skins of the peace offerings were retained by the offerer ('Mishna, Sebaeh,' 12, 3).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The guilt offeringכָּֽאָשָׁ֔ם (kā·’ā·šām) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 817: Guilt, a fault, a sin-offering is like the sin offering; כַּֽחַטָּאת֙ (ka·ḥaṭ·ṭāṯ) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender the same אַחַ֖ת (’a·ḥaṯ) Number - feminine singular Strong's 259: United, one, first law תּוֹרָ֥ה (tō·w·rāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law applies to both. לָהֶ֑ם (lā·hem) Preposition | third person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew It belongs to יִהְיֶֽה׃ (yih·yeh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be the priest הַכֹּהֵ֛ן (hak·kō·hên) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3548: Priest who אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that makes atonement with it. יְכַפֶּר־ (yə·ḵap·per-) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3722: To cover, to expiate, condone, to placate, cancel Links Leviticus 7:7 NIVLeviticus 7:7 NLT Leviticus 7:7 ESV Leviticus 7:7 NASB Leviticus 7:7 KJV Leviticus 7:7 BibleApps.com Leviticus 7:7 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 7:7 Chinese Bible Leviticus 7:7 French Bible Leviticus 7:7 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 7:7 As is the sin offering so (Le Lv Lev.) |
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