Leviticus 5:0 - Homilies By R.a. Redford

The trespass offerings.

Distinguished as:

1 . Being violations of rights of property, either religious or non-religious property.

2 . Including a fine, apportioned by the priest, for restoration.

3 . Without distinction of persons or circumstances.

4 . The victim, a ram without blemish from the flocks, and the atonement both sacred as producing . Divine forgiveness, and secular as including pecuniary indemnity; the blood being in this case merely swung against the side of the altar, not smeared on the horns.