Hebrew Bible and Christian Scriptures

Leviticus mentions several types of offerings.  There are five offerings mentioned in Chapters 1-7 that are later mentioned in Chapters 8-10:  sin offering, guilt (or trespass) offering, grain offering, peace offering, and burnt offering.  I became curious to the purpose of having the different offerings so I did a little research.

The burnt offering was an offering with the purpose for covering general sins of the people and to show a life of devotion to the Lord.

A peace offering was a volutary offering used by the offerer to express peace, gratitude and fellowship between the offerer and God.  There were three expressions of thanksgiving: a thank offering to express thanksgiving for an unexpected blessing, a votive offering used to express thanksgiving when the offerer had made a vow to God and God had granted them the blessing they had petitioned for, and a freewill offering to thank God without any specific blessing in mind.

A grain offering was also voluntary and was used as an act of worship and thanksgiving towards God.

A sin offering and a guilt (or trespass) offering are very similar in that they are both used as a sacrifice for sins committed unknowingly by the offerer.  The only difference is that the guilt offering is offered when the sin has a monetary value of sorts and restitution has already been made by the offerer.  Neither sin or guilt offerings are used when the offerer has knowingly committed a sin against God in defiance.

The information above was found on the following website:

https://www.theox.org/images/images_A2115/sacrifices1.pdf

My post has just been a generalization of the information found on this site.  There is a lot more detailed information about the offerings in regards to scriture references, the preist’s portion, God’s portion, the offerer’s portion, and what each offereing constisted of.

When a priest comes into the Holy place, he risks his life because the Lord takes his life if he does not follow God’s rule.

I think his belief and faith could be also urgent to survive.

Nowadays, do we have also urgent faith toward God like biblical priests?

God creats all of creatures, but why he divides into clean and unclean in Leviticus 11? 

When a waman gives birth to a girl, why are the days of her purification longer than when she gives birth a boy in Leviticus 12?

Name three of the six types of offerings mentioned in Leviticus 8-10.

Answer:  What are guilt, sin, wave, grain, peace, and burnt?

When helping someone through grief or some other unexplaind loss, does Job provide us with an answer other than the cliche “God knows best”?  Explain.

In Job, this word would have been a better translation for “patience”.  What is endurance?

What is 10 (7 boys, 3 girls)

I think it is interesting that when preachers use the book of Job they always talk about the view of God and the accuser in the book, Job’s horrific circumstances and his faith (and rightfully so) or his three friends (you know – “With friends like this, who needs enemies), BUT what is not often talked about is Elihu.

Elihu, for whatever reason, in the the sermons I have heard about Job is not talked about.  I think Elihu’s view of the three friends, Job and God is the most righteous response in the book.  I think he is worth us looking at more closely!

In a sin offering, the law breaker shall bring a lamb to sacrifice, but if he cannot afford a lamb he is to bring two turtledoves or two pigeons. If he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, what is he to bring?

Answer: A tenth of an ephah of flour.

I see something playing out in Leviticus 2 where the laws for the grain offering were given. This thing that I hadn’t ever seen before. I may be over reading here, but it is cool anyway. On one hand we see God telling the people that they should bring the grain offerings to the priests and they would make a cake out of a portion of the flour, oil, and all of the frankincense, then offer it to the Lord at an alter of fire. This offering goes up in smoke, and it is seen by everyone in and around Israel for miles. On the same note, there is a correlation between this and corporate worship, it is seen by all and it is from an overflow of our life and work. The next part is what amazes me though, where God says the most holy part is the part offered to take care of the priests of God. In the same way Jesus says to Peter, “Do you love me? Feed my sheep.” I see a correlation to this sacrifice also.