Lying Costs

The Lord told Moses if a person sins and commits a trespass against the Lord by lying to his neighbor about what was delivered to him for safekeeping, about a pledge, or about a robbery he is guilty because he has sinned. He is also guilty of sin if he has extorted from his neighbor, found something that was lost and lies about it or swears falsely. In each of these situations, he should restore its full value and add one-fifth more to it and give it to whomever it belonged to on the day of his trespass offering. The trespass offering to the Lord, by way of the priest, should be a ram without blemish from the flock with the valuation at the time. The priest would make atonement for him before the Lord and he would be forgiven for any one of those things he may have done in which he trespassed.

The Law of the Burnt Offering

The Lord told Moses to command Aaron and his sons about the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering was to be on the hearth on the altar all night until morning. The fire of the altar should be kept burning on it. The priest should put on his linen garment and his linen trousers and take up the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire consumed on the altar and put them beside the altar. Then he should take off his garments, and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. Again, the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it and never extinguished. The priest was to burn wood on it every morning and lay the burnt offering in order on it. He shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. For the third time it’s stated that a fire should always be burning on the altar and should never go out.

The Law of the Grain Offering

The sons of Aaron were to offer it on the altar before the Lord. The priest was to take from it his handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, with its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the grain offering. It was to be burned on the altar for a sweet aroma, as a memorial to the Lord. Aaron and his sons were to eat the remainder of it with unleavened bread and eat it in a holy place, in the court of the tabernacle of meeting. It was not to be baked with leaven. God stated that He had given it as their portion of His offerings made by fire. It is most holy like the sin and the trespass offerings. All the males among Aaron’s children could eat it. This would be a statute forever in their generations concerning the offerings made by fire to the Lord. Everyone who touched it had to be holy. God told Moses, that beginning on the day when he was anointed, Aaron and his sons were to offer to the Lord, one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a daily grain offering. Half of it was to be offered in the morning and the other half at night. It was to be made in a pan with oil. When it was mixed, it was to be presented with the baked pieces offered for a sweet aroma to the Lord. The priest from among Aaron’s sons, who was anointed in his place should offer it. This was to be a statute forever to the Lord. It was to be wholly burned. Every grain offering for the priest was to be wholly burned. It was not allowed to be eaten.

The Law of the Sin Offering

God told Moses to tell Aaron and his sons about the law of the sin offering. The sin offering was supposed to be killed in the same place where the burnt offering was killed before the Lord. It was most holy. The priest who offered it for sin was to eat it in a holy place, in the court of the tabernacle of meeting. Everyone who touched its flesh had to be holy. When its blood was sprinkled on any garment, the garment was to be washed in a holy place. The earthen vessel in which it was boiled was to be broken. If it was boiled in a bronze pot, it was to be scoured and rinsed in water. All the males among the priests could eat it. It was most holy. No sin offering from which any of the blood was brought into the tabernacle of meeting, to make atonement in the holy place, was to be eaten. It was to be burned in the fire.

Next week we journey to Leviticus 7.

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