Leviticus 6 – Sacred Trusts and Continued Offerings
In Leviticus 6, God continues instructions on guilt offerings, focusing on wrongdoing against others, the need for repayment and added compensation, and the priestly role in maintaining the fire and presenting continual offerings. These commands reflect the sacred responsibility of living truthfully and serving faithfully.
When Trust Is Broken
Sin isn’t always an accident—it sometimes involves intentional deception or broken trust. Leviticus 6 begins by addressing such wrongs, showing that true repentance involves more than apology—it includes restitution. It then transitions into the sacred work of the priesthood, emphasizing the continual fire of sacrifice and the holy portion belonging to God.
✔ Sins of fraud, theft, and dishonesty require full restitution + 20%.
✔ The offender must bring a guilt offering.
✔ Priests are responsible for continual burnt offerings.
✔ Special rules govern holy portions, fire maintenance, and sacred space.
📖 Key Verse: “It shall be restored in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto…” – Leviticus 6:5
🔎 True repentance doesn’t just return—it restores more.
Leviticus Chapter 6 Overview
Leviticus 6:1–7 – Deceit, Confession, and Restitution
📖 Leviticus 6:2 – “If a soul sin… and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep…”
🔎 Trust broken:
🔹 Sins of betrayal—such as fraud, theft, or false oaths—violate both man and God.
🔹 These are not merely personal wrongs; they offend the covenant of holiness.
📖 Leviticus 6:4–5 – “Then it shall be, because he hath sinned… he shall restore that which he took…”
🔎 Restitution required:
🔹 The offender must repay the full value plus one-fifth.
🔹 Restoration must precede offering—reconciliation before ritual.
📖 Leviticus 6:6–7 – “He shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord…”
🔎 Guilt removed:
🔹 A ram without blemish is offered as a guilt offering.
🔹 The priest makes atonement, and forgiveness is assured.
➡️ Faith Insight: God sees integrity as sacred. Repentance that makes things right mirrors the justice and mercy of God.
Leviticus 6:8–13 – The Fire Shall Never Go Out
📖 Leviticus 6:9 – “This is the law of the burnt offering… the fire shall ever be burning upon the altar.”
🔎 Continual consecration:
🔹 The burnt offering burned day and night—symbolizing constant dedication.
🔹 Priests had to clean the ashes, renew the fire, and never let it go out.
📖 Leviticus 6:12–13 – “The fire shall ever be burning… it shall never go out.”
🔎 Holy persistence:
🔹 Fire on the altar represented God’s presence—it must be fed and preserved.
🔹 Worship is not seasonal or emotional—it is constant, tended daily.
➡️ Spiritual Insight: Keep your inner altar burning. Prayer, devotion, and obedience must be guarded like sacred flame.
Leviticus 6:14–30 – Sacred Portions and Holy Handling
📖 Leviticus 6:17 – “It shall not be baken with leaven… it is most holy…”
🔎 Holiness in detail:
🔹 The grain offering was most holy—eaten only by the priests in a holy place.
🔹 No leaven meant no corruption—purity was non-negotiable.
📖 Leviticus 6:25–26 – “In the place where the burnt offering is killed… shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord.”
🔎 Shared sacrifice site:
🔹 The sin offering was handled with utmost reverence—the location mattered.
🔹 Whoever touched its flesh became holy—proximity to the sacred left a mark.
➡️ Christ Connection: Jesus was the true sin offering, made holy and sacrificed “outside the camp” for us (Hebrews 13:11–12).
Leviticus Chapter 6 - Deeper Study
Overview: Truth, Fire, and Holiness
🔹 Theme: Sin requires both confession and correction. Worship requires both consistency and reverence.
🔹 Focus: Making things right with people, and maintaining holy order before God.
🔹 Outcome: Guilt is removed, wrongs are restored, and the fire never goes out.
Living Leviticus 6 Today
🔎 God calls us to protect the sacred—relationships, worship, and truth.
🔹 When we wrong someone, we restore what was lost and more.
🔹 When we worship, we keep the flame alive through daily devotion and faithfulness.
🔹 When we handle holy things—His Word, His people, His name—we do so with awe.
📖 “The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.” – Proverbs 20:27
➡️ Modern Application: A restored life isn’t just forgiven—it’s reordered to burn continually for God’s glory.
Key Takeaways
🔑 Integrity is sacred—God demands justice and restoration.
🔑 Worship must be constant, tended like a flame.
🔑 Holy things require reverence, purity, and precision.
🔑 Proximity to the sacred changes those who draw near.
Prophetic Patterns & Dual Fulfillment
🔮 Jesus fulfilled the guilt offering by restoring what sin destroyed (Isaiah 53:10).
🔮 The eternal flame foreshadows the unceasing intercession of Christ (Hebrews 7:25).
🔮 The “most holy” status of the offering points to the sanctifying power of Christ’s sacrifice (Hebrews 10:10).
Historical & Cultural Context
📜 Restitution + Fifth – Ancient Israel’s legal system upheld justice with added penalty to ensure full restoration.
📜 Continual Burnt Offering – Day and night fire mirrored God’s constant presence and covenant watchfulness.
📜 Priestly Duties – The priests not only mediated offerings—they kept order, fire, and purity in the camp.
Final Reflection: Restore and Rekindle
Leviticus 6 teaches that justice and worship go hand in hand. We cannot claim to love God if we violate others, and we cannot worship well if we neglect the sacred fire. God desires not just a clean slate—but a burning altar.
📌 Have you repaid what you damaged—physically or relationally?
📌 Is your fire for God flickering, or fiercely tended?
📌 Are you handling what is holy with humility and awe?
🚀 Restore what was broken—and rekindle what was burning. God’s presence waits.
Lev 6:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 6:2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
Lev 6:3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
Lev 6:4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
Lev 6:5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
Lev 6:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
Lev 6:7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
The Priests and the Offerings
Lev 6:8 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 6:9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.
Lev 6:10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
Lev 6:11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.
Lev 6:12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
Lev 6:13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.
Lev 6:14 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.
Lev 6:15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD.
Lev 6:16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
Lev 6:17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
Lev 6:18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
Lev 6:19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 6:20 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
Lev 6:21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Lev 6:22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.
Lev 6:23 For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
Lev 6:24 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 6:25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.
Lev 6:26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Lev 6:27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.
Lev 6:28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.
Lev 6:29 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.
Lev 6:30 And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.
Date Written
1445–1405 BC
Written By
Moses
Language
Hebrew
Verses
30