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GOD'S GOODNESS SEEN IN A SACRIFICED RAM


Leviticus 5:14-19

5:14 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
15 “If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding Yahweh’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
16 He shall make restitution for that which he has sinned in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he shall be forgiven.
17 “If anyone sins, doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
18 He shall bring a ram without defect from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn’t know it, and he shall be forgiven.
19 It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh.”
Romans 2:4

2:4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

[Vayikra ends.] The final verse of the sectional pairing above (Lev 5:19) is the last verse of the Torah portion of Vayikra. God provided a ram in the thicket for Abraham to sacrifice. In this, God both spared Isaac and demonstrated His goodness, which leads the world to repentance.
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Silver is a form of riches (echo 1).
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The ram without defect recalls the ram caught in the thicket in Genesis 22, echoing the goodness of God, who stopped Abraham from sacrificing his son and provided an alternative (echo 2).
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The priest making atonement and sins being forgiven echoes the repentance that accompanies salvation in Christ (echo 3). Repentance is the process of returning to God, to one’s true self, and to righteous living after going astray. It involves regret, cessation of sin, and a resolve not to repeat it.