Leviticus 6

Leviticus 6:1-7

A variety of trespasses against our neighbour are mentioned, which, though immediately affecting them, are yet

sins against God, as being breaches of his law, v. 2. These are either denying what was lent us; or defrauding our partners; or imposing upon others by unjust commendation of our wares; or not returning what we find to the owner; or disowning it, when we are charged with any of these things. In such cases, 1. Restitution must be made to the injured person, and a fifth part of the value added. 2. A trespass-offering must be brought to God. Note, (1.) All sacrifice for sin is vain, till, to the utmost of our power, restitution is made unto man. (2.) When we have done all in our power to indemnify our neighbour, we are still debtors to the law, and must perish, unless we plead the trespass-offering of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Before Christ 1490.

8. ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 9. Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt-offering: (It is the burnt-offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.) 10. “And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breaches shall be put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath conformed with the burnt-offering on the altar, and he shall put them besides the altar. 11. And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp, unto a clean place. 12. And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it, it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt-offering in order upon it, and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace-offerings. 13. The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar: it shall never go out.

Or for the burning. ¶ Chap. xvi. 4. Read. xxvi. 40. 41. 43.

Leviticus 6:6

¶ Heb. Petting of the land, i.e. Boring.

1. Further laws concerning trespasses, which belong to the former chapter, ver. 1—7. 2. Ver. 8, begins a new fashion, relative to other rites and sacrifices. 1. The burnt-offering, ver. 8—13. 2. The meat-offering, ver. 14—18, particularly that at its re-formation of the priest, ver. 19—23. 3. The fin-offering, ver. 24—30.

2. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2. If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lye unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or it in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; 3. Or hath found that which was lost, and lyeeth concerning it, and (sweareth fally); in any of all these that a man doth, sinning therein: 4. Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, 5. Or all that about which he hath sworn fally; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass-offering. 6. And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish, out of the stock, with thy estimation, for a trespass-offering, unto the priest. 7. And the priest shall make an atonement for him, before the LORD; and it shall be forgiven him, for any thing of all that he had done, in trespassing therein.