Leviticus 5:15-16

Leviticus 5:14 to Leviticus 6:7. The Guilt-Offering

Three cases where a Guilt-Offering should be brought are here specified:

(a) 15, 16; if part of what is due to the Lord has been withheld.

15. commit a trespass The Heb. word (mâ-al) here and in Leviticus 6:2 is different from that which is rendered -be guilty," -bring guilt," and -guilt offering" (trespass offeringA.V.) in Leviticus 4:3 to Leviticus 5:7 ("âshâm). It means -to deal deceitfully."

in the holy things of the Lord i.e. by keeping back what is His due (e.g. tithes or firstfruits). The offender shall make restitution of what he has kept back unwittingly, adding a fifth part, and shall also bring as a Guilt-Offering a ram of sufficient value estimated after the shekel of the sanctuary. According to tradition this shekel was double the value of the ordinary shekel, but see A. R. S. Kennedy's Art. Money, in HDB. iii. 422, or Lev. (Cent. Bible) p. 58, where he makes it to be -the so-called Phœnician silver shekel of 224 grains, and its value about 2 Samuel 9 d." It thus would weigh but little more than the Jewish shekels now extant.

according to thy estimation also in Leviticus 5:18 and Leviticus 6:6.

in silver by shekels i.e. the ram must be worth at the least two shekels. According to Tal. Bab. (Zebâḥîm90 b) it must be two years old.