Discovery BoxLeviticus 4:3 
Context4:3 “‘If the high priest 1 sins so that the people are guilty, 2 on account of the sin he has committed he must present a flawless young bull to the Lord 3 for a sin offering. 4
Leviticus 5:9
Context5:9 Then he must sprinkle 5 some of the blood of the sin offering on the wall of the altar, and the remainder of the blood 6 must be squeezed out at the base of the altar – it is a sin offering.
Leviticus 6:25
Context6:25 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered the sin offering must be slaughtered before the Lord. It is most holy. 7
Leviticus 14:13
Context14:13 He must then slaughter 8 the male lamb in the place where 9 the sin offering 10 and the burnt offering 11 are slaughtered, 12 in the sanctuary, because, like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; 13 it is most holy.
Leviticus 16:11
Context16:11 “Aaron is to present the sin offering bull which is for himself, and he is to make atonement on behalf of himself and his household. He is to slaughter the sin offering bull which is for himself,
Leviticus 19:22
Context19:22 and the priest is to make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he has committed, 14 and he will be forgiven 15 of his sin 16 that he has committed.
1 tn Heb “the anointed priest” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). This refers to the high priest (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).
2 tn Heb “to the guilt of the people”; NRSV “thus bringing guilt on the people.”
3 tn Heb “and he shall offer on his sin which he sinned, a bull, a son of the herd, flawless.”
4 sn The word for “sin offering” (sometimes translated “purification offering”) is the same as the word for “sin” earlier in the verse. One can tell which rendering is intended only by the context. The primary purpose of the “sin offering” (חַטָּאת, khatta’t) was to “purge” (כִּפֶּר, kipper, “to make atonement,” see 4:20, 26, 31, 35, and the notes on Lev 1:4 and esp. Lev 16:20, 33) the sanctuary or its furniture in order to cleanse it from any impurities and/or (re)consecrate it for holy purposes (see, e.g., Lev 8:15; 16:19). By making this atonement the impurities of the person or community were cleansed and the people became clean. See R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:93-103.
5 tn The Hebrew verb וְהִזָּה (vÿhizzah, Hiphil of נָזָה, nazah) does indeed mean “sprinkle” or “splatter” (cf. Lev 4:6, 17). Contrast “splash” in Lev 1:5, etc. (זָרָק, zaraq).
6 tn Heb “the remainder in the blood.” The Heb. preposition “in” (בְּ, bÿ) is used here to mean “some among” a whole collection of something.
7 tn Heb “holiness of holinesses [or holy of holies] it is.” Cf. NAB “most sacred”; CEV “very sacred”; TEV “very holy.”
8 tn Heb “And he shall slaughter.”
9 tn Heb “in the place which.”
10 sn See the note on Lev 4:3 regarding the term “sin offering.”
11 sn See the note on Lev 1:3 regarding the “burnt offering.”
12 tn Since the priest himself presents this offering as a wave offering (v. 12), it would seem that the offering is already in his hands and he would, therefore, be the one who slaughtered the male lamb in this instance rather than the offerer. Smr and LXX make the second verb “to slaughter” plural rather than singular, which suggests that it is to be taken as an impersonal passive (see J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:852).
13 tn Heb “the guilt offering, it [is] to the
14 tn Heb “on his sin which he has sinned.”
15 tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him.”
16 tn Heb “from his sin.”
