The Sin Offering (3)

The foregoing article on this subject was an explanation in regard to what the sin offering begot for those in respect to whose sin or sins it was brought. We now turn to the ritual of this offering and first to that part of it that had to do with the choice of victims. The matter of what might be offered has already been examined. It appeared that not any animal might be taken, that, to make the gap between the offerer and the victim as small as possible, the selection was limited to the herds...