When the sinner is a dirty rotten rat

Chapter six of Leviticus picks up where chapter five left off, God is still talking about trespass/guilt offerings. This time the guilty party is a conniving good-for-nothing smuck, that’s the MSV, probably your version says it differently (obviously not all Bible translators grasp the Hebrew quite as fully as Marcos does).

This guy has to restore what he stole or snuck or deceived about, and then he has to add an additional tariff (MSV again!) of 20%. Next, the conniving rat has to take his best ram to the priest, and Moses gets to act the insurance adjuster and tell the slimeball how much moolah he has to hand over to the priest in order for the trespass offering to be effective in working forgiveness and wiping the slate clean with atonement.

So he pays once to the offended, and once to the priest.

I wonder if after Moses died, Joshua was the one who charged those fines. “As for me and my house, we shall set the fines.”

Leviticus helps me see just how good of a deal we got with Calvary’s grace.

Even dirty rotten rats, like me, get the slate wiped clean.