translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: LEV

label: NET study note

text: The quotation introduced here extends from Lev 4:2 through 5:13 , and encompasses all the sin offering regulations. Compare the notes on Lev 1:1 above, and 5:14 and 6:1 [5:20 HT] below.


text: The word for “sin offering” (sometimes translated “purification offering”) is the same as the word for “sin” earlier in the verse. One can tell which rendering is intended only by the context. The primary purpose of the “sin offering” ( חַטָּאת , khatta ’ t ) was to “purge” ( כִּפֶּר , kipper , “to make atonement,” see 4:20, 26, 31, 35 , and the notes on Lev 1:4 and esp. Lev 16:20, 33 ) the sanctuary or its furniture in order to cleanse it from any impurities and/or (re)consecrate it for holy purposes (see, e.g., Lev 8:15; 16:19 ). By making this atonement the impurities of the person or community were cleansed and the people became clean. See R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:93-103.


text: See v. 7 , where this altar is identified as the altar of fragrant incense.


text: Cf. Lev 4:11-12 above for the disposition of “the [rest of] the bull.”


text: The focus of sin offering “atonement” was purging impurities from the tabernacle (see the note on Lev 1:4 ).


text: See the note on the word “slaughter” in v. 15 .