Guilt Offering

[Lev. 6:2] If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
A guilt offering is required for extortion or robbery. 2-7 this part of the law concern things stolen, fraudulently gotten, or wrongfully kept. The offender was enjoined to make restating of the articles to the rightful owner, alone with a fifth part out of his own possessions. But it was not enough thus to repair the injury done to a neighbor and to society; he was required to bring a trespass offering, as a token of sorrow and penitence for having hurt the cause of religion and of G-d. That trespass offering was a ram without blemish, which was to be made on the altar of burnt offerings, and the flesh belonged to associated with a sacred duty, the form in which the fine was inflicted served the important purpose of rousing attention to the claims and reviving a sense of responsibility to G-d. Moses received instructions to be delivered to the priests respecting their official duties, and the first burnt offerings a sacrifice, which went up in smoke. The daily service consisted of two lambs, one offered in the morning at sunrise, the other in the evening, when the day began to decline. Both of them were consumed at the altar by means of a slow fire, before which the pieces of the sacrifice on the altar of burnt offering was a daily expression of national repentance and faith. The fire that consumed these sacrifices had been kindled from heaven at he consecration of Tabernacle.
Even if he wants to pay for and keep it, he must return it to the owner. Also if the stolen object was damaged in the process, the thief had to repay the monetary value. Failure to return a stolen object became an additional sin of theft. If the victim died, the thief had to return the stolen object to the nearest relative.
There were five sins to which it was, mandatory for everyone to bring a guilt offering (along with repentance) for atonement.
These included:
1. If the individual owed money,
2. If the individual misused sacred objects,
3. For violating a betrothed, (even non-Jewish), maidservant.
4. If a Nazarite become ritually contaminated, by contacting a corpse,
5. One who recovered from a leapers disease had to bring a guilt offering on the eighth day after being pronounced cured.
The law of the burnt offering, 9-24 and to keep it from being consecration of the Tabernacle (9:24), and to keep it from being extinguished and the sacrifices from being burned with common fire, strict injunctions are here given respecting not only the removal of the ashes, but the approaching near to the fireplace in garments that were not officially holy.
The first of the daily services performed in the Temple was the removal of the ashes from the burnt offering of the previous day. This was done at dawn. Each morning a lot was cast among the priests to determine which would perform this service. The priest who was chosen would immerse himself in a mikveh and put on special garments. He would then proceed to was both his hands and feet. Holding a silver firepan and climb to the top of the altar and push the coals to one side and then gather the ashes from the center of the altar. After filling the firepan, he would descend the altar facing northward and empty the ashes on the ground about 9 inches from the ramp. Then all the priests would ascend the altar and clear it of the remaining ashes. When the ashes were too many they were taken to a special place outside Jerusalem and barred so as not to be disturbed by wind or animals. The lesson seen in this text is that no service to the L-rd is to be considered degrading, no matter had demeaning it may appear.
It was required for a permanent fire to be kept burning on the altar everyday. Actually there were three piles of wood on the altar. A large pile of wood was stacked on the southeast corner of the altar where all the sacrifices were burnt. A smaller flame was ignited on the southwestern corned called the second arrangement. From the fire live coals we taken into the Temple Holy Place to smoke the incense offering on top of the inner golden altar. The third and smallest fire was located on the northern side and was solely for the purpose of fulfilling this biblical command to not let the peduncle fire go out day nor night. If the Menorah became extinguished, it may not be relit from any fire except that of the outer altar.
It was forbidden to extinguish any fire on the altar. Even prior to the building of the Temple, the fire burning on the Tabernacle altar was uninterrupted for over 100 years.
The law of the meat offering, though this was a prevision for the priests and their families, it was to be regarded as most holy, and the way in which it was prepared was: on any meet offerings being presented, the priest carried them to the altar, and taking a handful from each of them as an oblation, he salted and burnt it on the altar; the residue became the property of the priest, and was the food of those whose duty it was to attend on the service. They themselves as well as the vessels from which they ate were typically holy, and they were not at liberty to partake of the meat offering while they labored under any ceremonial defilement.
It was commanded for the priest (Kohamm) to eat the remainder of meal offerings. The priests were to offer up an amount that could be held by their three middle fingers and the remainder was to be eaten by the priest who where on duty that week. This amount had to be eaten within the confines of the Temple. Even the priests who suffered some blemish and were forbidden to eat other sacrifices were permitted to eat the meal offering. The only meal offering which a priest could not partake was to stir the heart of the one who prepared and brought it, he was to abstain from eating what he had prepared lest he take for granted the offering like another meal. His offering had to be burn.
It was forbidden to season or cook the meal offering which the priest were to eat like other food (with leaven). It was required daily for the priests to offer a meal offering, which was like a pancake offering. It was baked in a shallow pan in which they baked 12 loaves. Half of these were offered in the morning and half in the afternoon. Before being offered the loaves were broken into little pieces. The High Priest who represented the messenger between heaven and earth, had his own daily meal offering, just as the congregation has its daily burnt offering.]
[this is the offering of Aaron, and of his sons - the daily meat offering of the high priest; for though his sons are mentioned along with him, it was probably only those of his descendants who succeeded him in that high office that are meant. It was to be offered, one half of it in the morning and the other half in the evening-being daily laid by the ministering priest on the altar of burnt offering, where, being dedicated to G-d, it was wholly consumed. This was designed to keep him on the other attendant priests in constant remembrance, that though they were typically expiating the sins of the people, their own persons and services could meet with acceptance only through faith, which required to be daily nourished and strengthened from above.
25-28 this is the law of the sin offering - it was slain, and the fat and inwards, after being washed and salted, were burnt up on the altar. But the rest of the carcass belonged to the officiating priest. He and his family might feast upon it - only, however, within the precincts of the Tabernacle; and none else were allowed to partake of it but the members of a priestly family - and not even they, if under any ceremonial defilement. The flesh on all occasions was boiled or sodden, with the exception of the paschal lamb, which was roasted (12:8-9)’ and if an earthen vessel had been used, it being porous and likely to imbibe some of the liquid particles, it was to be broken; if an metallic pan had been used it would be scoured and washed with the greatest care, not because the vessels had been defiled, but the reverse - because the flesh of the sin offering having been boiled in them, those vessels were not too sacred for ordinary use. The design of all these minute ceremonies was to impress the minds, both of priests and people, with a sense of the evil nature of sin and the care they should take to prevent the least taint of its impurities clinging to them.
The priest had to offer a sin offering for himself. This sin offering was to cover any sins that had been committed unintentionally. If a poor person could not afford an animal he could bring a pigeon instead. If a poor person could not afford an animal he could bring a pigeon instead. The sin offering was slaughtered on the north side of the outer altar and the rest of the carcass was divided among the priests. This offering had to be eaten the same day or that night up until midnight. The burning of the animal’s innards and kidneys atoned for evil thoughts, while the sprinkling of the blood on the altar represented evil deed.
It was forbidden to eat of the flesh of the inner sin offering. This consisted of one whose blood was to be sprinkled on the inner Golden Alter. This offering was required to be totally burnt. The blood of those not sprinkled within (Temple - Holy Place and Holy of Holies) were permitted to be eaten. The penalty for not obeying this law was lashes.
Heb. 13:10-14 “We have an altar from which those who serve the Tabernacle have no right to eat. The bodies of those beast, whose blood is brought into the Sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. Therefore Y’Shua also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach. For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come.” –with soul-animating stains.
The sin offering with fit this description are the bulls sacrificed for the sins of the priests and the sins of the people, and the bull for the goat killed on the Day of Atonement. Lev. 16:27, the red heifer whose ashes produced the water of purification was burned outside the camp. Num. 19:1-9, but its blood was not brought into the Tabernacle. Evidently the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer in Hebrews refers to these particular sacrifices.
These sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Tabernacle, were offered for the priest or for the whole people of G-d: either way the ministering priest belonged to the guilty party. He was not allowed to eat the offering which atoned for his own sin. He could eat of every sin offering which atoned for the sins of others, even if the offerer was a ruler of Israel. But his own sin was too great for him; he could not eat the flesh that atoned for it. Y’Shua HaMashiach, however was sinless. He needed no offering for Himself. Thus His body and blood, though they were brought into the Holy of Holies to atone for the sins of the people, are eaten by His attendants, (1 Pet. 2:5), who are the ministers of a better covenant.