Today we begin Leviticus Chapter 5. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. “If a person who is a witness, sworn to testify, sins by refusing to tell what he has seen or heard about the matter, he must bear the consequences.”-Leviticus 5:1  Even though we’ve now entered […]

“If an individual among the people commits a sin inadvertently, doing something against any of the mitzvot of Adonai concerning things which should not be done, he is guilty.  If the sin he committed becomes known to him, he is to bring as his offering a female goat without defect for the sin he committed, lay his hand on the […]

“When a leader sins and inadvertently does something against any of the mitzvot of Adonai concerning things which should not be done, he is guilty.  If the sin which he committed becomes known to him, he is to bring as his offering a male goat without defect, lay his hand on the goat’s head and slaughter it in the […]

“This is what he is to do with the bull — he must do the same with this bull as he does with the one for the purification offering. Thus the cohen will make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.”-Leviticus 4:20 There is only one difference between the HATTA-AT or Purification Offering procedures when it […]

“And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the Lord: and the bullock shall be killed before the Lord.”-Leviticus 4:15 At the end of verse Leviticus 4:15, we encounter a phrase that we would do well to firmly embed into our memory banks. It is the phrase “before […]