Levitico 10:17

17 "Perché non avete mangiato il sacrifizio per il peccato nel luogo santo? giacché è cosa santissima, e l’Eterno ve l’ha dato perché portiate l’iniquità della raunanza, perché ne facciate l’espiazione davanti all’Eterno.

Levitico 10:17 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 10:17

Wherefore have ye not eaten of the sin [offering] in the
holy place, seeing it [is] most holy
The sin offering was one of the most holy things, and therefore to be eaten only in the sanctuary; though this was not the fault they are here charged with that they had eat it, but not in the holy place; for they had not eaten it at all, but burnt it, as appears from the preceding verse; this is what they are blamed for particularly, though they are reminded of the whole law concerning it, that it was to he eaten by them, that it was to be eaten in the holy place, the reason of which is given; but they had not eaten it any where:

and [God] hath given it to you, to bear the iniquity of the
congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?
for by eating the sin offering, or sin itself, as it is in the original text, see ( Hosea 4:8 ) they made the sins of the people, for whom the offering was, in some sense their own; and they bore them, and made a typical atonement for them; in which they were types of Christ, who was made sin for his people, took their sins upon him, and by imputation they were made his own, and he bore them in his own body on the tree, and made full satisfaction and atonement for them. Now since the eating of the sin offering of the people was of so great importance and consequence, the neglect of it by the priests was very blameworthy.

Levitico 10:17 In-Context

15 Oltre ai grassi da ardere si porteranno la coscia dell’offerta elevata e il petto dell’offerta agitata, per esser agitati davanti all’Eterno come offerta agitata; anche questo apparterrà a te e ai tuoi figliuoli con te, per diritto perpetuo, come l’Eterno ha ordinato".
16 Or Mosè cercò e ricercò il capro del sacrifizio per il peccato; ed ecco, era stato bruciato; ond’egli s’adirò gravemente contro Eleazar e contro Ithamar, i figliuoli ch’eran rimasti ad Aaronne, dicendo:
17 "Perché non avete mangiato il sacrifizio per il peccato nel luogo santo? giacché è cosa santissima, e l’Eterno ve l’ha dato perché portiate l’iniquità della raunanza, perché ne facciate l’espiazione davanti all’Eterno.
18 Ecco, il sangue della vittima non e stato portato dentro il santuario; voi avreste dovuto mangiarla nel santuario, come io avevo ordinato".
19 Ed Aaronne disse a Mosè: "Ecco oggi essi hanno offerto il loro sacrifizio per il peccato e il loro olocausto da vanti all’Eterno; e, dopo le cose che mi son successe, se oggi avessi mangiato la vittima del sacrifizio per il peccato, sarebbe ciò piaciuto all’Eterno?"
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