What Does Leviticus 4:25 Mean in the King James?
And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The word for the offering shares its root with “missing,” giving the rupture a costly, visible place on the altar.
THE MEANING
The verse puts the cost of a missing in view: the priest takes the blood, places it on the altar’s horns, then pours it at the altar’s base. The missing is given a visible place across the altar, from its raised points to its foundation. The reader sees it carried into the open through blood placed and poured.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a wrong can stay private and weightless: here blood is physically carried, placed, and poured.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatta’t
GROWS FROM
ח־ט־א
To miss, fail to reach, or go wrong.
“sin offering” in this verse is chatta’t. The noun חַטָּאת (chatta’t, offering for the missing) grows from the same root as words for missing or going wrong. The language holds the rupture and the offering that addresses it in one frame, while the verse makes that connection visible in the blood placed on the altar.
ALSO GROWS
chata: To miss, sin, or go wrong.
חָטָא
This verb names the act that the offering’s root also carries: a human missing.
chet: A missing, fault, or sin.
חֵטְא
This noun shows that the offering’s name and the condition it addresses share the same root.
THE PATTERN
The missing is addressed through a visible blood rite that places life on the altar and pours it out.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.THE THREAD
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.Psalm 32:5 uses חַטָּאתִי (chatta’ti, my missing), from the same root חטא (chata, to miss) that forms the offering’s name here. The psalm names a personal missing and pairs speaking it openly with the lifting away of its crookedness.
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