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2. The sin and guilt are the sacrificial worship generally as
carried on by the people (viii. 11; Amos iv. 4); in the entire
section the prophet is preparing the way for the here sharply
accentuated reproach against the priests that they neglect
the Torah and encourage the popular propensity to superstitious
and impure religious service. Besides, where is there any
reproach at all, according to the Pentateuch, in the first section
of iv. 8? And the second speaks of (WNM, not of )#MM.
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It would be less unreasonable to co-ordinate with the similarly
named sin and trespass offering of the Pentateuch the five golden
mice, and the five golden emerods with which the Philistines send
back the ark, and which in 1Samuel vi. 3, 4, 8 are designated _asham_,
or, still better, the sin and trespass monies which, according to
2Kings xii. 17 [A.V. 16], fell to the share of the Jerusalem
priests. Only the fact is that even in the second passage the
_asham_ and _hattath_ are no sacrifices, but, more exactly to
render the original meaning of the words, mere fines, and in fact money
fines.
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