What happensPermalink
Continued laws for the sin offering and initial laws for guilt offering. Sins include intentional and unintentional actions, and they include commission (doing sinful things) and omission (not doing right things). Sacrifices are adjusted for the offeror’s ability to afford them.
Why it mattersPermalink
Atonement is available to all Israelites regardless of wealth or status, and to the congregation and individuals. The universality indicates the universality of sin as well as the universality of God’s forgiveness.
Key versePermalink
“If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity…”