Leviticus 6: Group Study Handout

How to use: read Leviticus 6 aloud together, then take the questions in order. One page is enough for an evening.

Overview

Yahweh speaks to Moses about guilt offerings. If someone sins against Yahweh or their neighbor, they must restore what was taken or lost and add one-fifth to it (vv. 1-5).

Key verse

“He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.”
Leviticus 6:6 (WEB)

Outline

Leviticus 6:1–7 Instructions for Guilt Offerings
Leviticus 6:8–13 Law of the Burnt Offering
Leviticus 6:14–18 Law of the Meal Offering
Leviticus 6:19–23 Offering for the Anointed Priest
Leviticus 6:24–30 Law of the Sin Offering

Discussion questions

In v6, what type of offering is the person instructed to bring to Yahweh?
What is to be kept 'burning' on the altar in vv. 12, 13?
In v25, why is the sin offering described as 'most holy' and how does that impact the priest?
In v30, why can't any sin offering, where blood is brought into the Holy Place, be eaten?
When have you felt compelled to make 'restitution' for a wrongdoing in your own life?

Go deeper

Passages that echo Leviticus 6: Leviticus 2, Leviticus 4, Leviticus 5.

Before next time: read Leviticus 7.