Trespass Offerings

Laws Concerning The Trespass Offering

When looking at the following, one needs to understand the sacrificial system of Leviticus. There are basically five sacrifices or offerings listed in the Torah. Two are required and three are voluntary offerings saying to God that the individual desires a deeper relationship with Him. They are as follows.

 

 Sin Offering   Made one time
 Trespass Offerings   Made every time an un-intentional trespass is 
  committed. No offering for an intentional trespass.
 Burnt Offering    Spiritual connections = Romans 12
 Meal Offering  
 Peace Offering  

The Sin Offering is the offering for ones initial sin, that brings them to the Lord seeking forgiveness and restoration. The blood of the lamb on the door posts and lentil in Egypt is the Older Testament's example. The only condition connected with the lamb was, that the people do it. Not because they were any better than the ones that did not do it. But by faith they trusted in the word of God that came through Moses.

Some of the trespasses required restitution to be made for the trespass plus additional restitutions might be imposed. Notice what Zaccheus said to Yeshua when he was called to come down from the sycamore (fig) tree.

There were Ten Commandments originally handed to Moses by God on Tablets of Stone that God wrote with His own finger. There are also Ten Trespasses listed in the book of Leviticus, with the requirements for repentance.

I. Trespass Offering #1

(Lev 5:1 NASB) 'Now if a person sins, after he hears a public adjuration to testify, when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt (trespass).

 

II. Trespass Offering #2

(Lev 5:2 NASB) 'Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or a carcass of unclean swarming things, though it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he will be guilty.

This trespass can be a little unclear unless one looks at the spiritual side. We many times get in the world and are touched by its belief system and may even do some of the things they do. This needs to be taken care of.

II Cor 6:13-18 NASB  Now in a like exchange-- I speak as to children-- open wide to us also. Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. "Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE," says the Lord. "AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you. "And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me," Says the Lord Almighty.

II Cor 7:1 NASB  Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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III. Trespass Offering #3

(Lev 5:3 NASB)  'Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort his uncleanness may be with which he becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty.

Again, we are in the world but not of the world but we start our walk sometimes failing. The man of Romans 7 is that man. We start out as little children not mature saints. That is not an excuse for not growing.

 

IV. Trespass Offering #4

(Lev 5:4 NASB) 'Or if a person swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever matter a man may speak thoughtlessly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty in one of these.

The following is the shadow of what we are to do. Again Remember 1st John 1:9

(Lev 5:4-13 NASB) 'So it shall be when he becomes guilty in one of these, that he shall confess that in which he has sinned. 'He shall also bring his guilt (trespass) offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin. 'But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD his guilt (trespass) offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. 'And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first that which is for the sin offering and shall nip its head at the front of its neck, but he shall not sever it. 'He shall also sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar: it is a sin offering. The second he shall then prepare as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has committed, and it shall be forgiven him. 'But if his means are insufficient for two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then for his offering for that which he has sinned, he shall bring the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it or place incense on it, for it is a sin offering. 'And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar, with the offerings of the LORD by fire: it is a sin (trespass) offering. 'So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has committed from one of these, and it shall be forgiven him; then the rest shall become the priest's, like the grain offering.'"

 

V. Trespass Offering #5

(Lev 5:14-16 NASB) Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "If a person acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against the LORD'S holy things, then he shall bring his guilt (trespass) offering to the LORD: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation in silver by shekels, in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt (trespass) offering. "And he shall make restitution for that which he has sinned against the holy thing, and shall add to it a fifth part of it, and give it to the priest. The priest shall then make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt (trespass) offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

 

VI. Trespass Offering #6

(Lev 5:17-19 NASB)   "Now if a person sins and does any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, though he was unaware, still he is guilty, and shall bear his punishment. "He is then to bring to the priest a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation, for a guilt (trespass) offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his error in which he sinned unintentionally and did not know it, and it shall be forgiven him. "It is a guilt (trespass) offering; he was certainly guilty before the LORD."

 

VII. Trespass Offering #7

(Lev 6:1-3 NASB)   Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {2} "When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD, and deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted to him,

 

VIII. Trespass Offering #8

or through robbery,

 

IX. Trespass Offering #9

or if he has extorted from his companion,

 

X. Trespass Offering #10

or has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do;

(Lev 6:4-6 NASB) then it shall be, when he sins and becomes guilty, that he shall restore what he took by robbery, or what he got by extortion, or the deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost thing which he found, or anything about which he swore falsely; he shall make restitution for it in full, and add to it one-fifth more. He shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day he presents his guilt (Trespass) offering.

"Then he shall bring to the priest his guilt (Trespass) offering to the LORD, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation, for a guilt (trespass) offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD; and he shall be forgiven for any one of the things which he may have done to incur guilt (Trespass)."

Under the Law of Moses, anyone breaking one of the Ten Commandments was subject to the penalty of death. But here is what Paul preached that the blood of Yeshua provided:

(Act 13:38-42 KJV)   Be it known unto you therefore, men [and] brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you. And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. 

We truly do have a better Covenant with better promises.

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