Leviticus 6:1-30. Leviticus 7:1-38

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 1 Trespass by Deception and False Oath Sacrificial Instructions for the Priests: The Burnt Offering The Grain Offering of the Common Person The Grain Offering of the Priests The Sin Offering Leviticus 6:1-30 The Guilt Offering Priestly Portions of Burnt and Grain Offerings The Peace Offering Sacrificial Instructions for the Common People: Fat and Blood Priestly Portions of Peace Offerings Summary of Sacrificial Regulations in Leviticus 6:8-7:36 Leviticus 7:1-38

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 2 Texts: Trespass by Deception and False Oath Sacrificial Instructions for the Priests: The Burnt Offering The Grain Offering of the Common Person The Grain Offering of the Priests The Sin Offering Leviticus 6:1-30, 1. Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 2. When a person sins and commits a trespass against the Lord by deceiving his fellow citizen in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen, 3. or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin 4. when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty, then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, or the lost thing that he had found, 5. or anything about which he swears falsely. He must restore it in full and add one fifth to it; he must give it to its owner when he is found guilty. 6. Then he must bring his guilt offering to the Lord, a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver shekels, for a guilt offering to the priest.

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 3 7. So the priest will make atonement on his behalf before the Lord and he will be forgiven for whatever he has done to become guilty. 8. (6:1) Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 9. Command Aaron and his sons, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth on the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar must be kept burning on it. 10. Then the priest must put on his linen robe and must put linen leggings over his bare flesh, and he must take up the fatty ashes of the burnt offering that the fire consumed on the altar, and he must place them beside the altar. 11. Then he must take off his clothes and put on other clothes, and he must bring the fatty ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, 12. but the fire which is on the altar must be kept burning on it. It must not be extinguished. So the priest must kindle wood on it morning by morning, and he must arrange the burnt offering on it and offer the fat of the peace offering up in smoke on it. 13. A continual fire must be kept burning on the altar. It must not be extinguished. 14. This is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron are to present it before the Lord in front of the altar, 15. and the priest must take up with his hand some of the choice wheat flour of the grain offering and some of its olive oil, and all of the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and he must offer its memorial portion up in smoke on the altar as a soothing aroma to the Lord.

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 4 16. Aaron and his sons are to eat what is left over from it. It must be eaten unleavened in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Meeting Tent. 17. It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion from my gifts. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. 18. Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion throughout your generations from the gifts of the Lord. Anyone who touches these gifts must be holy. 19. Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 20. This is the offering of Aaron and his sons which they must present to the Lord on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. 21. It must be made with olive oil on a griddle and you must bring it well soaked, so you must present a grain offering of broken pieces as a soothing aroma to the Lord. 22. The high priest who succeeds him from among his sons must do it. It is a perpetual statute; it must be offered up in smoke as a whole offering to the Lord. 23. Every grain offering of a priest must be a whole offering; it must not be eaten. 24. Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 25. Tell Aaron and his sons, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered the sin offering must be slaughtered before the Lord. It is most holy. 26. The priest who offers it for sin is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Meeting Tent.

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 5 27. Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place. 28. Any clay vessel it is boiled in must be broken, and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then that vessel must be rubbed out and rinsed in water. 29. Any male among the priests may eat it. It is most holy. 30. But any sin offering from which some of its blood is brought into the Meeting Tent to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten. It must be burned up in the fire. (NET) The Guilt Offering Priestly Portions of Burnt and Grain Offerings The Peace Offering Sacrificial Instructions for the Common People: Fat and Blood Priestly Portions of Peace Offerings Summary of Sacrificial Regulations in Leviticus 6:8-7:36 Leviticus 7:1-38, 1. This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy. 2. In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they must slaughter the guilt offering, and the officiating priest must splash the blood against the altar s sides. 3. Then the one making the offering must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails,

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 6 4. the two kidneys and the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver (which he must remove along with the kidneys). 5. Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a gift to the Lord. It is a guilt offering. 6. Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. 7. The law is the same for the sin offering and the guilt offering; it belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. 8. As for the priest who presents someone s burnt offering, the hide of that burnt offering which he presented belongs to him. 9. Every grain offering which is baked in the oven or made in the pan or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it. 10. Every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, each one alike. 11. This is the law of the peace offering sacrifice which he is to present to the Lord. 12. If he presents it on account of thanksgiving, along with the thank offering sacrifice he must present unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil, and well soaked ringshaped loaves made of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil. 13. He must present this grain offering in addition to ringshaped loaves of leavened bread which regularly accompany the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offering.

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 7 14. He must present one of each kind of grain offering as a contribution offering to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering. 15. The meat of his thanksgiving peace offering must be eaten on the day of his offering; he must not set any of it aside until morning. 16. If his offering is a votive or freewill sacrifice, it may be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and also the leftovers from it may be eaten on the next day, 17. but the leftovers from the meat of the sacrifice must be burned up in the fire on the third day. 18. If some of the meat of his peace offering sacrifice is ever eaten on the third day it will not be accepted; it will not be accounted to the one who presented it, since it is spoiled, and the person who eats from it will bear his punishment for iniquity. 19. The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat. 20. The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people. 21. When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people. 22. Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 23. Tell the Israelites, You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 8 24. Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it. 25. If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people. 26. And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live. 27. Any person who eats any blood that person will be cut off from his people. 28. Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 29. Tell the Israelites, The one who presents his peace offering sacrifice to the Lord must bring his offering to the Lord from his peace offering sacrifice. 30. With his own hands he must bring the Lord s gifts. He must bring the fat with the breast to wave the breast as a wave offering before the Lord, 31. and the priest must offer the fat up in smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons. 32. The right thigh you must give as a contribution offering to the priest from your peace offering sacrifices. 33. The one from Aaron s sons who presents the blood of the peace offering and fat will have the right thigh as his share, 34. for the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering I have taken from the Israelites out of their peace offering sacrifices and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the people of Israel as a perpetual allotted portion.

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 9 35. This is the allotment of Aaron and the allotment of his sons from the Lord s gifts on the day Moses presented them to serve as priests to the Lord. 36. This is what the Lord commanded to give to them from the Israelites on the day Moses anointed them a perpetual allotted portion throughout their generations. 37. This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering sacrifice, 38. which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai. (NET) Commentary: Trespass by Deception and False Oath Leviticus 6:1-7, Then the Lord spoke to Moses: When a person sins and commits a trespass against the Lord by deceiving his fellow citizen in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen, or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty, then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, or the lost thing that he had found, or anything about which he swears falsely. He must restore it in full and add one fifth to it; he must give it to its owner when he is found guilty. Then he must bring his guilt offering to the Lord, a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 10 shekels, for a guilt offering to the priest. So the priest will make atonement on his behalf before the Lord and he will be forgiven for whatever he has done to become guilty. (NET) I. The first thing that leaps off the page to this writer is that a sin against a neighbor or fellowman is a sin against the LORD! A. David acknowledged this fact in his confession to Nathan the prophet. 1. 2 Samuel 12:13 Then David exclaimed to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord! Nathan replied to David, Yes, and the Lord has forgiven your sin. You are not going to die. (NET) B. In his prayer of repentance, recorded in Psalm 51:4, David wrote:... 1. Psalm 51:4, Against you you above all I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me. (NET) 2. Of course, David had sinned against Bathsheba and certainly against Uriah. In fact, he is told that he has sinned against the nation of Israel, but primarily he sinned against the LORD! a. 2 Samuel 12:13, Then David exclaimed to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord! Nathan replied to David, Yes, and the Lord

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 11 has forgiven your sin. You are not going to die. (NET) C. The Prodigal Son acknowledged the same truth. 1. Luke 15:21 Then his son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son. (NET) D. This fact was emphasized when the New Testament church was in its infancy. 1. Acts 5:3-4 But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back for yourself part of the proceeds from the sale of the land? Before it was sold, did it not belong to you? And when it was sold, was the money not at your disposal? How have you thought up this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people but to God! (NET) II. It is somewhat surprising that an offering for such a deliberate act is possible! All the other sacrifices emphasize that the sin being atoned for was an unintentional sin or something done in ignorance of the law against it. However, the first seven verses of chapter six describe an offering for one who has lied or failed to come forward with information that was needed. Also covered are those who deceived someone or claimed property that was not theirs. There seems to be no way to claim this as an inadvertent or unintentional act. It is called by various names such as A Guilt Offering or Trespass Offering or sometimes The

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 12 Sin Offering. Other offerings also were called by these designations so there is some overlap. A. Take note of the fact that whatever was gained by this deception or silence must be restored with interest (20%)! (An early stating of the principle that Crime does not pay! ) 1. Zaccheus seems to be aware of this law as we see in Luke s account of his encounter with Jesus. He, however, was not satisfied with a mere 20%, but added 400%! Now that is impressive repentance! a. Luke 19:8-10, But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much! Then Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham! For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. (NET) NOTE: The remainder of chapters six and seven consist of further details for the execution of the six offerings described in the previous chapters. We will make a few observations as we read through these chapters. Sacrificial Instructions for the Priests: The Burnt Offering Leviticus 6:8-13, (6:1) Then the Lord spoke to Moses: Command Aaron and his sons, This is the law of the

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 13 burnt offering. The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth on the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar must be kept burning on it. Then the priest must put on his linen robe and must put linen leggings over his bare flesh, and he must take up the fatty ashes of the burnt offering that the fire consumed on the altar, and he must place them beside the altar. Then he must take off his clothes and put on other clothes, and he must bring the fatty ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, but the fire which is on the altar must be kept burning on it. It must not be extinguished. So the priest must kindle wood on it morning by morning, and he must arrange the burnt offering on it and offer the fat of the peace offering up in smoke on it. A continual fire must be kept burning on the altar. It must not be extinguished. (NET) A. This linen robe takes on heavy spiritual meaning from this point on. It represents the robe of righteousness that God provides His children. This is probably alluded to in various passages; for example,... 1. Matthew 22:11-12, But when the king came in to see the wedding guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. And he said to him, Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes? But he had nothing to say. (NET) 2. Revelation 19:8, 14, She was permitted to be dressed in bright, clean, fine linen (for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints). The

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 14 armies that are in heaven, dressed in white, clean, fine linen, were following him on white horses. (NET) B. Another reason for wearing these linen garments is given by the prophet Ezekiel. 1. Ezekiel 44:17-18, When they enter the gates of the inner court, they must wear linen garments; they must not have any wool on them when they minister in the inner gates of the court and in the temple. Linen turbans will be on their heads and linen undergarments will be around their waists; they must not bind themselves with anything that causes sweat. (NET) C. While the NET says leggings most other translations call these undergarments. (Leviticus 6:10) D. Ezekiel explained why this change of clothes was necessary. 1. Ezekiel 44:19, When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments. (NET)

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 15 E. Note the eternal flame. The fire upon the altar becomes a metaphor for the stirring of the Spirit in God s people. 1. 1 Thessalonians 5:19 19 Do not extinguish the Spirit. (NET) 2. 2 Timothy 1:6, Because of this I remind you to rekindle God s gift that you possess through the laying on of my hands. (NET) The Grain Offering of the Common Person Leviticus 6:14-18, This is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron are to present it before the Lord in front of the altar, and the priest must take up with his hand some of the choice wheat flour of the grain offering and some of its olive oil, and all of the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and he must offer its memorial portion up in smoke on the altar as a soothing aroma to the Lord. Aaron and his sons are to eat what is left over from it. It must be eaten unleavened in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Meeting Tent. It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion from my gifts. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion throughout your generations from the gifts of the Lord. Anyone who touches these gifts must be holy. (NET) The Grain Offering of the Priests

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 16 Leviticus 6:19-23, Then the Lord spoke to Moses: This is the offering of Aaron and his sons which they must present to the Lord on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. It must be made with olive oil on a griddle and you must bring it well soaked, so you must present a grain offering of broken pieces as a soothing aroma to the Lord. The high priest who succeeds him from among his sons must do it. It is a perpetual statute; it must be offered up in smoke as a whole offering to the Lord. Every grain offering of a priest must be a whole offering; it must not be eaten. (NET) The Sin Offering Leviticus 6:24-30, Then the Lord spoke to Moses: Tell Aaron and his sons, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered the sin offering must be slaughtered before the Lord. It is most holy. The priest who offers it for sin is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Meeting Tent. Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place. Any clay vessel it is boiled in must be broken, and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then that vessel must be rubbed out and rinsed in water. Any male among the priests may eat it. It is most holy. But any sin offering from which some of its blood is brought into the Meeting Tent to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten. It must be burned up in the fire. (NET)

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 17 I. As we read these two chapters three things stand out details, details and more details! No doubt this is the reason that Leviticus is the least popular book in the Scriptures. Not many devotional books are based on this part of the Bible! II. However, all this was necessary. Everything had its purpose. From such chapters as these we learn how likely we are to sin accidentally or on purpose and how costly it is to atone for it! Knowing this makes us appreciate the fact that there is no book of Leviticus in the New Testament! Because of Christ we have been freed from law and legalism and brought into grace! (More about this later). The Guilt Offering Leviticus 7:1-7, This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy. In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they must slaughter the guilt offering, and the officiating priest must splash the blood against the altar s sides. Then the one making the offering must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails, the two kidneys and the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver (which he must remove along with the kidneys). Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a gift to the Lord. It is a guilt offering. Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. The law is the same for the sin offering and the guilt offering; it belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it. (NET) Priestly Portions of Burnt and Grain Offerings

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 18 Leviticus 7:8-10, As for the priest who presents someone s burnt offering, the hide of that burnt offering which he presented belongs to him. Every grain offering which is baked in the oven or made in the pan or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it. Every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, each one alike. (NET) The Peace Offering Leviticus 7:11-21, This is the law of the peace offering sacrifice which he is to present to the Lord. If he presents it on account of thanksgiving, along with the thank offering sacrifice he must present unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil, and well soaked ring-shaped loaves made of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil. He must present this grain offering in addition to ring-shaped loaves of leavened bread which regularly accompany the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offering. He must present one of each kind of grain offering as a contribution offering to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering. The meat of his thanksgiving peace offering must be eaten on the day of his offering; he must not set any of it aside until morning. If his offering is a votive or freewill sacrifice, it may be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and also the leftovers from it may be eaten on the next day, but the leftovers from the meat of the sacrifice must be burned up in the fire on the third day. If some of the meat of his peace offering sacrifice is ever eaten on the third day it will not be accepted; it will

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 19 not be accounted to the one who presented it, since it is spoiled, and the person who eats from it will bear his punishment for iniquity. The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat. The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people. When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people. (NET) I. It is interesting here to note the similarity and perhaps the intended connection between this sacrificial meat which must not be allowed to be kept past the second day and Jesus, our sacrifice, who was allowed to stay in the tomb two days, but raised on the third. Peter makes reference to this in his sermon in Acts 2 delivered on the day of Pentecost. A. Acts 2:24-27 But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power. For David says about him, I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; my body also will live in hope, because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay. NET)

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 20 Sacrificial Instructions for the Common People: Fat and Blood Leviticus 7:22-27, Then the Lord spoke to Moses: Tell the Israelites, You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat. Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it. If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people. And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live. Any person who eats any blood that person will be cut off from his people. (NET) I. The stricture against eating blood will be further explained in chapter 17 in the instructions for the Day of Atonement. Priestly Portions of Peace Offerings Leviticus 7:28-36, Then the Lord spoke to Moses: Tell the Israelites, The one who presents his peace offering sacrifice to the Lord must bring his offering to the Lord from his peace offering sacrifice. With his own hands he must bring the Lord s gifts. He must bring the fat with the breast to wave the breast as a wave offering before the Lord, and the priest must offer the fat up in smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons. The right thigh you must give as a contribution offering to the priest from your peace offering sacrifices. The one from Aaron s sons who presents the blood of the peace offering and fat will have the right thigh as his share, for

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 21 the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering I have taken from the Israelites out of their peace offering sacrifices and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the people of Israel as a perpetual allotted portion. This is the allotment of Aaron and the allotment of his sons from the Lord s gifts on the day Moses presented them to serve as priests to the Lord. This is what the Lord commanded to give to them from the Israelites on the day Moses anointed them a perpetual allotted portion throughout their generations. (NET) Summary of Sacrificial Regulations in Leviticus 6:8-7:36 Leviticus 7:37-38, This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering sacrifice, which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai. (NET) I. This is probably a good time to talk a bit about the difference between precepts and principles. What we have been wading through and will continue to wade through are precepts. They are laws which allow for no interpretation. A. Our everyday life in parts of the world where automobile travel is common affords a good illustration of the difference between precepts and principles.

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 22 1. A Stop Sign is a precept. It is a law. There are no degrees of stopping. You either stop or you don t. If you do not stop your friendly traffic officer will explain the difference and the consequences of not stopping! 2. On the other hand, a sign that reads, Proceed with Caution, falls under principles. You are allowed to interpret the word caution. If your interpretation is too far off the mark you will probably get hurt or worse. Still it is your call. 3. Leviticus and other books of the Law are filled with precepts and only a few principles. In the selecting of an animal for a sacrifice the instructions are in the form of precepts. The minute details are spelled out and cannot be deviated from. 4. In the New Testament we are instructed to give of our means as we have prospered, liberally, cheerfully, as we have purposed in our hearts and willingly. All of these are open to interpretation and we interpret them based on our measure of devotion and love for the Lord and His cause. God saw the sacrifices of His Old Testament people and knew if they were obedient or not. He sees our gifts and knows if our love is sincere and if our heart is in the right place. a. 2 Corinthians 8:7-9 But as you excel in everything in faith, in speech, in knowledge, and in all eagerness and in the love from us that is in you make sure that

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 23 you excel in this act of kindness too. I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that you by his poverty could become rich. (NET)

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 24 Questions on Leviticus 6:1-30 and Leviticus 7:1-38 1. What was the obligation of one who found some lost property and didn t know to whom it belonged? 2. What was the penalty if he made no effort to locate the proper owner and return the property? 3. Once he was convicted of this sin, what sacrifice was to be made?

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 25 4. Besides sinning against one s fellowman, whom do we sin against in such matters? 5. How did David express this truth in his prayer of repentance? _ 6. To whom did Ananias and Sapphira lie and what did they lie about? 7. Describe the special garments that Aaron was commanded to wear to offer sacrifices.

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 26 8. What New Testament counterpart seems to be shown in this? 9. What was the rule about the fire on the brazen altar of sacrifice? 10. How is this used metaphorically in the New Testament? 11. What lesson do we learn from reading all the details that must be met with precision to make an offering acceptable?

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 27 12. How long could the sacrificial meat be kept and still be edible? 13. What common sense benefit would the Israelites receive by keeping this rule? 14. How did Peter apply this rule and David s prophetic utterance concerning it to Jesus resurrection? 15. Under what circumstances could an Israelite eat blood? 16. What would be the results if one did eat blood?

www.biblestudyworkshop.org 28 17. What is the difference between a precept/law and a principle? 18. In the matter of giving or tithing, what was the precept? 19. How much interpretation was allowed in deciding what kind of animal or grain to offer for each of the six offerings? 20. According to Second Corinthians eight and nine, what are the principles that we are to interpret to arrive at what our offering should be?

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