Sin-offering

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Sin-offering
     (Heb. hattath), the law of, is given in detail in Lev. 4-6:13;
     9:7-11, 22-24; 12:6-8; 15:2, 14, 25-30; 14:19, 31; Num. 6:10-14.
     On the day of Atonement it was made with special solemnity (Lev.
     16:5, 11, 15). The blood was then carried into the holy of
     holies and sprinkled on the mercy-seat. Sin-offerings were also


     presented at the five annual festivals (Num. 28, 29), and on the
     occasion of the consecration of the priests (Ex. 29:10-14, 36).
     As each individual, even the most private member of the
     congregation, as well as the congregation at large, and the high
     priest, was obliged, on being convicted by his conscience of any
     particular sin, to come with a sin-offering, we see thus
     impressively disclosed the need in which every sinner stands of
     the salvation of Christ, and the necessity of making application
     to it as often as the guilt of sin renews itself upon his
     conscience. This resort of faith to the perfect sacrifice of
     Christ is the one way that lies open for the sinner's attainment
     of pardon and restoration to peace. And then in the sacrifice
     itself there is the reality of that incomparable worth and
     preciousness which were so significantly represented in the
     sin-offering by the sacredness of its blood and the hallowed
     destination of its flesh. With reference to this the blood of
     Christ is called emphatically "the precious blood," and the
     blood that "cleanseth from all sin" (1 John 1:7).