This ritual seems to betray its novelty even within the Priestly
Code itself by a certain vacillation. In the older corpus of law
(Leviticus xvii.-xxvi.) which has been taken into that document, all
sacrifices are still embraced under one or other of the two heads
ZBX and (LH (xvii. 8, xxii. 18, 21); there are no others. The _asham_
indeed occurs in xix. 21 seq., but, as is recognised, only in a
later addition; on the other hand,it is not demanded /1/ in
xxii.14,
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1. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the _asham_ here,
in the case of property unlawfully held, is simply the impost of
a fifth part of the value, and not the sacrifice of a ram, which
in Leviticus v. is required in addition. In Numbers v. also,
precisely this fifth part is called _asham_.
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where it must have been according to Leviticus v. and Numbers v.
And even apart from Leviticus xvii.-xxvi there is on this point
no sort of agreement between the kernel of the Priestly Code
and the later additions, or "novels," so to speak. For one thing,
there is a difference as to the ritual of the most solemn sin-offering
between Exodus xxix.
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