Leviticus 6:1-13

Additional Laws for Burnt Offerings

1 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "When a person {displays infidelity} against Yahweh and he deceives his fellow citizen regarding something entrusted or {a pledge} or stealing or he exploits his fellow citizen,

3 or he finds lost property and lies about it and swears {falsely} {in regard to} any one of these things by which {a person} might commit sin,

4 {and when} he sins and is guilty, then he shall bring back {the things he had stolen} or {what he had extorted} or {something with which he had been entrusted} or the lost property that he had found,

5 or {regarding} anything about which he has sworn {falsely}, then he shall repay it {according to} its value and shall add one-fifth of its value to it--he must give it {to whom it belongs} on the day of his guilt offering.

6 And he must bring as his guilt offering to Yahweh a ram without defect from the flock by your valuation as a guilt offering to the priest,

7 and the priest shall make atonement for him {before} Yahweh, and he shall be forgiven {anything} from all that he might do {by which he might incur guilt}."

8 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

9 "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This [is] the regulation of the burnt offering: {The burnt offering must remain on the hearth} on the altar all night until the morning, and the altar's fire must be kept burning on it.

10 And the priest shall put on his linen robe, and he must put his linen undergarments on his body, and he shall take away the fatty ashes [of] the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall place them beside the altar.

11 And he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and he shall bring out the fatty ashes {outside the camp} to a ceremonially clean place,

12 but the fire on the altar must be kept burning on it; it must not be quenched. And the priest must burn wood {every morning} on it, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it, and he shall turn into smoke the fat portions of the fellowship offerings on it.

13 A perpetual fire must be kept burning on the altar; it must not be quenched.

Leviticus 6:1-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 6

This chapter treats of the trespass offering for sins committed knowingly and wilfully, Le 6:1-7 and of the law of the burnt offering, and of cleansing the altar of burnt offering, and keeping the fire burning on it continually, Le 6:8-13 and of the meat offering, which is repeated with some additional circumstances, Le 6:14-18 and of the offering at the consecration of the high priest, Le 6:19-23 and of the sin offering, and where to be killed and eaten, and by whom, Le 6:24-30.

Footnotes

• [a]. Leviticus 6:1-30 in the English Bible is 5:20-6:23 in the Hebrew Bible
• [b]. Or "And"
• [c]. Or "a soul"
• [d]. Literally "acts unfaithfully infidelity" or "is unfaithful [in] unfaithfulness"
• [e]. Literally "in"
• [f]. Literally "a pledge of a hand"
• [g]. Literally "in accordance with deception"
• [h]. Literally "on" or "upon"
• [i]. Literally "the man"
• [j]. Literally "and it will be when"
• [k]. Or "and"
• [l]. Literally "the robbed things that he had stolen"
• [m]. Literally "the extortion that he had extorted"
• [n]. Literally "something entrusted that had been entrusted [to] him"
• [o]. Literally "from"
• [p]. Literally "in accordance with deception"
• [q]. Or "and"
• [r]. Literally "in"
• [s]. Literally "to whom it is to him"
• [t]. The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
• [u]. See 5:15 and 18
• [v]. Literally "to the faces of"
• [w]. Literally "one"
• [x]. Literally "which he might do for [incurring] guilt by it"
• [y]. Or "And"
• [z]. Literally "It [shall be] the burnt offering on a hearth"
• [aa]. Hebrew "him/it"--plural required by the English "fatty ashes"
• [ab]. Literally "to from an outside place of the camp"
• [ac]. Or "and"
• [ad]. Literally "in the morning in the morning"
• [ae]. Antecedent for this 3fs suffix is "fire" ("altar" is ms)
• [af]. Antecedent for this 3fs suffix is "fire" ("altar" is ms)
• [ag]. Antecedent for this 3fs suffix is "fire" ("altar" is ms)