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Levítico 6

BLIVRE · Chapter 6/27

1E falou o SENHOR a Moisés, dizendo:

2Quando uma pessoa pecar, e fizer transgressão contra o SENHOR, e negar a seu próximo o depositado ou deixado em sua mão, ou roubar, ou extorquir a seu próximo;

3Ou seja que achando o perdido, depois o negar, e jurar em falso, em alguma de todas aquelas coisas em que costuma pecar o homem:

4Então será que, posto que haverá pecado e ofendido, restituirá aquilo que roubou, ou pelo dano da extorsão, ou o depósito que se lhe depositou, ou o perdido que achou,

5Ou tudo aquilo sobre que houver jurado falsamente; o restituirá, pois, por inteiro, e acrescentará a ele a quinta parte, que há de pagar a aquele a quem pertence no dia de sua expiação.

6E por sua expiação trará ao SENHOR um carneiro sem mácula dos rebanhos, conforme tua avaliação, ao sacerdote para a expiação.

7E o sacerdote fará expiação por ele diante do SENHOR, e obterá perdão de qualquer de todas as coisas em que costuma ofender.

8Falou ainda o SENHOR a Moisés, dizendo:

9Manda a Arão e a seus filhos dizendo: Esta é a lei do holocausto: (é holocausto, porque se queima sobre o altar toda a noite até a manhã, e o fogo do altar arderá nele:)

10O sacerdote se porá sua vestimenta de linho, e se vestirá calções de linho sobre sua carne; e quando o fogo houver consumido o holocausto, apartará ele as cinzas de sobre o altar, e as porá junto ao altar.

11Depois se desnudará de suas vestimentas, e se porá outras vestiduras, e tirará as cinzas fora do acampamento ao lugar limpo.

12E o fogo aceso sobre o altar não deverá se apagar, mas o sacerdote porá nele lenha cada manhã, e acomodará sobre ele o holocausto, e queimará sobre ele a gordura pacífica.

13O fogo deverá arder continuamente no altar; não se apagará.

14E esta é a lei da oferta: os filhos de Arão a oferecerão diante do SENHOR, diante do altar.

15E tomará dele um punhado de boa farinha da oferta, e de seu azeite, e todo o incenso que está sobre a oferta de alimentos, e o fará arder sobre o altar por memória, em aroma suavíssimo ao SENHOR.

16E o excedente dela, Arão e seus filhos o comerão; sem levedura se comerá no lugar santo; no átrio do tabernáculo do testemunho o comerão.

17Não se cozerá com levedura: dei-o a eles por sua porção de minhas ofertas acendidas; é coisa santíssima, como a expiação pelo pecado, e como a expiação pela culpa.

18Todos os homens dos filhos de Arão comerão dela. Estatuto perpétuo será para vossas gerações acerca das ofertas acendidas do SENHOR: toda coisa que tocar nelas será santificada.

19E falou o SENHOR a Moisés, dizendo:

20Esta é a oferta de Arão e de seus filhos, que oferecerão ao SENHOR no dia em que forem ungidos: a décima parte de um efa de boa farinha por oferta de alimentos perpétua, a metade à manhã e a metade à tarde.

21Em panela se preparará com azeite; bem misturada a trarás, e os pedaços cozidos da oferta oferecerás ao SENHOR em cheiro suave.

22E o sacerdote que em lugar de Arão for ungido dentre seus filhos, fará a oferta; estatuto perpétuo do SENHOR: toda ela será queimada.

23E toda a oferta de cereais de sacerdote será inteiramente queimado; não se comerá.

24E falou o SENHOR a Moisés, dizendo:

25Fala a Arão e a seus filhos, dizendo: Esta é a lei da expiação: no lugar de onde será degolado o holocausto, será degolada a expiação pelo pecado diante do SENHOR: é coisa santíssima.

26O sacerdote que a oferecer por expiação, a comerá: no lugar santo será comida, no átrio do tabernáculo do testemunho.

27Tudo o que em sua carne tocar, será santificado; e se cair de seu sangue sobre a roupa, lavarás aquilo sobre que cair, no lugar santo.

28E a vasilha de barro em que for cozida, será quebrada: e se for cozida em vasilha de metal, será esfregada e lavada com água.

29Todo homem dentre os sacerdotes a comerá: é coisa santíssima.

30Mas não se comerá de expiação alguma, de cujo sangue se meter no tabernáculo do testemunho para reconciliar no santuário: ao fogo será queimada.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

God details restitution for those who steal, lie, or deny holding a deposit, always adding 20% when returning it. He then explains the priests' duties regarding the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the sin offering.

Explanation

Restorative justice appears clearly here: it was not enough to return what had been taken — a fifth had to be added, acknowledging the damage done to the community's trust. The fire on the altar was to burn "continually," symbolizing that worship of God never pauses. The instructions to the priests reinforce that those who serve in the sanctuary have stricter rules of purity and conduct, since they handle what is "most holy." The practical lesson: making an error right usually requires more than simply returning what was expected — it requires generosity that restores broken trust.

Fun facts

  • The command to keep the fire on the altar always burning ("it shall never go out") is repeated three times in this chapter, a Hebrew literary device of emphasis showing its absolute importance.
  • According to Jewish tradition, this perpetual fire was originally kindled by God himself (Leviticus 9:24), and afterward kept burning continually by the priests.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Levítico 6:1This call opens a new use for the trespass offering: from here on it also settles fraud between neighbors, not just offenses against sacred things — theft, extortion, lying under oath.
  2. Levítico 6:2Denying a deposit, holding onto something by force, stealing: this list of schemes against one’s neighbor shows that the sacrificial system also served to repair economic harm between people, not just ritual failures.
  3. Levítico 6:3Finding a lost object and denying it under a false oath also made this list — lying about something found was treated as seriously as stealing on purpose.
  4. Levítico 6:4Before any sacrifice, the guilty person had to physically return what they had stolen, withheld, or found and hidden — the repayment came before the religious ritual.
  5. Levítico 6:5Besides returning the exact value, the person paid an extra 20 percent as a fine, on the same day they brought their trespass offering — the same restitution model seen earlier for damage to sacred things, now applied to schemes against neighbors.
  6. Levítico 6:6Even though it was fraud against another person, not against the sanctuary, the required offering was still a ram valued in money — the same trespass-offering pattern seen in the earlier chapters.
  7. Levítico 6:7With the ram offered and the restitution paid, the priest made atonement and the person left forgiven for any of these frauds — the process resolved both the debt owed to a neighbor and the offense before God.
  8. Levítico 6:8This opening formula marks a new section of the book: the text now revisits the offerings already described, this time as formal “laws” addressed specifically to the priests, with the technical details of their work.
  9. Levítico 6:9The fire of the burnt-offering altar had to stay burning all night, with the priest tending it — unlike other offerings settled in a single day. This is where the rule stated right after comes from: that fire could never go out.
  10. Levítico 6:10Removing the ashes from the altar was done wearing a special linen garment, reserved just for that task inside the sacred area — handling what was left of the altar’s fire required its own clothing, different from what was worn day to day.
  11. Levítico 6:11After gathering the ashes in the special garment, the priest changed clothes before carrying them outside the camp — a task inside the sacred area required sacred garments, and a task outside it, ordinary clothes.
  12. Levítico 6:12The altar’s fire could never go out: every morning the priest lit more wood and rearranged the burnt offering, and it was in this same fire that the fat of the peace offerings was also burned.
  13. Levítico 6:13The repetition that the fire had to burn without stopping reinforces just how seriously this rule was taken — it is not a minor detail, it is treated as a central point of the altar’s routine.
  14. Levítico 6:14Unlike the burnt offering, tied to one specific priest elsewhere, here any of Aaron’s sons could offer the meat offering — it was not a task reserved for a single individual.
  15. Levítico 6:15The gesture of taking out a handful of flour with oil and frankincense to burn as a memorial, already seen in chapter 2, is repeated here as an official “law,” gathering the rules of this offering in one place.
  16. Levítico 6:16The part of the meat offering left over for the priests had to be eaten without leaven and inside the court of the tent. These rules made sure that food kept being treated as sacred even after it left the altar.
  17. Levítico 6:17Calling this offering “most holy,” in the same category as the sin offering and the trespass offering, defines who could eat it — only male priests, in a sacred place — it is not a compliment about the food’s quality.
  18. Levítico 6:18Any male among the priests could eat of this offering, a rule that held forever; and the text adds that simply touching it already made someone or something “holy” — holiness passed by direct physical contact.
  19. Levítico 6:19This opening formula introduces a new topic: Aaron’s own personal, daily offering, different from the ordinary meat offering brought by the people.
  20. Levítico 6:20This meat offering was different from the others because it was burned entirely, with nothing left for the priest to eat — it was the high priest’s own personal offering, repeated every morning and every evening. That is why it followed the burnt offering’s rule (nothing left over) instead of the ordinary meat offering’s rule.
  21. Levítico 6:21Aaron’s daily offering was fried in a kind of pan with oil and brought already prepared, in pieces — the same preparation technique seen in chapter 2, now applied to the high priest’s personal routine.
  22. Levítico 6:22Each future high priest, upon being anointed for the office, had to go on offering this same daily offering — it was not a one-time gesture by Aaron, it became a permanent obligation of the office.
  23. Levítico 6:23Unlike the other meat offerings, which the priests partly ate, this one was burned entirely, with nothing left over — because it was the priest’s own offering, and he could not benefit by eating from his own offering.
  24. Levítico 6:24This opening formula introduces the official, law-form version of the sin offering’s rules — revisiting what was already seen in chapter 4, now from the standpoint of the priest’s work.
  25. Levítico 6:25The sin offering was killed in the same place as the burnt offering, and the text reinforces that it was “most holy” — the highest category of restriction on who could approach it or eat it.
  26. Levítico 6:26Unlike what happened with the offering for the priest himself or for the whole congregation, in the ordinary case it was the priest who ate the meat, in a sacred place — the meat became his food, it was not discarded.
  27. Levítico 6:27This passage describes a central idea of the book: holiness could be transferred by physical contact. A splash of this offering’s blood on someone’s clothing required washing the garment, because the clothing “caught” that sacred status and had to be handled accordingly.
  28. Levítico 6:28A clay pot the meat was boiled in had to be broken afterward, but a bronze pot only needed to be scoured and rinsed. The difference is practical: clay is porous and permanently absorbs fat and residue, bronze does not, so it could be reused.
  29. Levítico 6:29Any male among the priests could eat of this offering, always within the sacred court — reinforcing that it was food set apart, but legitimate, for those who served in the sanctuary.
  30. Levítico 6:30Here is the exception that explains chapter 4: when the sin offering’s blood was carried inside the tent, as with the mistake of the priest or of the whole people, the meat could not be eaten — only burned.

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