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Leviticus 6 Bible study: It shall not go out
Cheating a neighbor is "a trespass against the LORD" (6:2): the wrong is repaid in full with a fifth added, and only then comes the offering (6:5-6). From 6:9 the law turns to the priests: the altar fire "shall not go out" (6:13), the priests eat what is "most holy" in a holy place, and a sin offering whose blood entered the Tent is burned, not eaten (6:30).
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“Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.”
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“In Leviticus 6, someone who dealt falsely with his neighbor could be forgiven once he repaid it and brought an offering.”
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What's really going on
A wrong against a neighbor, a trespass against the LORD
The chapter opens with wrongs done to a neighbor: dealing falsely with him "in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery", oppressing him (6:2), or finding "that which was lost" and lying about it (6:3). Before the law lists them, it says what they are: the one who does them "sins, and commits a trespass against the LORD" (6:2). So the wrong is put right in two directions. To the neighbor: "he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it" (6:5). To the LORD: "He shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD" (6:6). Then "he will be forgiven" (6:7).
Where it leads to Jesus
Today, salvation has come to this house
Leviticus 6:5leads toLuke 19:8-10
The one who has taken from his neighbor "shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it" (6:5). Zacchaeus was "a chief tax collector" (Luke 19:2). Jesus told him, "today I must stay at your house" (Luke 19:5). Then Zacchaeus said, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much" (Luke 19:8). Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:9-10). Four times is more than this chapter's fifth; it is what Exodus sets for a sheep stolen and then killed or sold, "four sheep for a sheep" (Exodus 22:1). Neither Zacchaeus nor Jesus names Leviticus 6, so setting their words beside this chapter is a reading, not something Luke states.
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- The same offerings, from the priests' side
- Three times: the fire keeps burning
- Most holy
- First the neighbor, then the altar
- The sin offering nobody ate
- 11 questions as you read
- 11 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
מַעַלma'alsay MA-al
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "unfaithful, treacherous act". For the verb from the same letters (H4603), Brown-Driver-Briggs gives "act unfaithfully, treacherously". In 6:2 the WEB's "commits a trespass" is, in Hebrew, the verb and the noun together. Genesis and Exodus never use the noun. Leviticus has it three times: for a wrong "regarding the LORD’s holy things" (5:15), here for dealing falsely with a neighbor (6:2), and for Israel's "trespass which they trespassed against me" (26:40). Joshua uses both words when "the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things" (Joshua 7:1).
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Leviticus 6 Bible study questions
- 1In 6:2, dealing falsely with a neighbor is also "a trespass against the LORD". How does it change things to see a wrong against a person as a wrong against God too?
- 2The one who had wronged his neighbor paid back what he took, and a fifth more, before he brought his offering (6:5-6). What makes it hard to put things right with someone? What helps?
- 3The fire was fed with wood every morning, and it was never to go out (6:12-13). What keeps your faith going on ordinary days, and what lets it burn low?
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