Leviticus 5:12

12 tradetque eam sacerdoti qui plenum ex toto pugillum hauriens cremabit super altare in monumentum eius qui obtulit

Leviticus 5:12 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 5:12

Then shall he bring it to the priest
The flour just as it was, not kneaded and made into a cake, as appears by what follows:

and the priest shall take his handful of it;
as much of the flour as he could hold in one hand:

[even] a memorial thereof;
to bring to mind his sin, and the goodness of God in admitting of an offering for it, and forgiving it upon that:

and burn [it] on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire
unto the Lord;
in the same manner as other burnt offerings were made:

it [is] a sin [offering];
or an expiatory sacrifice for sin.

Leviticus 5:12 In-Context

10 alterum vero adolebit holocaustum ut fieri solet rogabitque pro eo sacerdos et pro peccato eius et dimittetur ei

11 quod si non quiverit manus eius offerre duos turtures vel duos pullos columbae offeret pro peccato similam partem oephi decimam non mittet in eam oleum nec turis aliquid inponet quia pro peccato est

12 tradetque eam sacerdoti qui plenum ex toto pugillum hauriens cremabit super altare in monumentum eius qui obtulit

13 rogans pro illo et expians reliquam vero partem ipse habebit in munere

14 locutus est Dominus ad Mosen dicens