25 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: aIn the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before the Lord. It is most holy.
26aThe priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of meeting.
27aEveryone who touches its flesh1 must be holy. And when its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled, in a holy place.
28 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled ashall be broken. And if it is boiled in a bronze pot, it shall be both scoured and rinsed in water.
29 All the males among the priests may eat it. It is most holy.
30aBut no sin offering from which any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of meeting, to make atonement in1 the holy bplace, shall be ceaten. It shall be dburned in the fire.
The priest - shall eat it - From the expostulation of Moses with Aaron, Leviticus 10:17, we learn that the priest, by eating the sin-offering of the people, was considered as bearing their sin, and typically removing it from them: and besides, this was a part of their maintenance, or what the Scripture calls their inheritance; see Ezekiel 44:27-30. This was afterwards greatly abused; for improper persons endeavored to get into the priest' s office merely that they might get a secular provision, which is a horrible profanity in the sight of God. See I Samuel 2:36; Jeremiah 23:12; Ezekiel 34:2-4; and Hosea 4:8.
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