A Study Of The Levitical Offerings

Chart Three-Age And Sex Of Offerings

Age and Sex of the Various Offerings

1.  Burnt offerings:

(1)          Bullock, over four years old, $800 (Leviticus 1:3; Leviticus 8:2; Leviticus 16:3)

(2) Male sheep ($80) or goat ($50; Leviticus 1:10; Leviticus 9:2; Leviticus 16:3,5-28)

2.  Peace offerings:

(1) Male of cattle (bull, $800) or female ($350; Leviticus 3:1)

(2) Male lamb ($80), female lamb ($100) or kid ($50; Leviticus 3:6-7,12)

3.  Sin offerings:

(1)          Bullock, over four years old (Leviticus 4:3-4,8,12-21)

(2) Male goat, $50 (Leviticus 4:23)

(3)          Female lamb or kid (Leviticus 5:6)

(4) Young calf, $215 (Leviticus 9:2)

4.  Trespass offerings:

(1)          Female lamb or kid (Leviticus 5:6)

(2) Ram, $125 (Leviticus 5:15,18; Leviticus 6:6)

5.  Freewill offerings:

(1) For burnt offerings: male of cattle, sheep or goat (Leviticus 22:18-21)

(2) For vows: male of cattle, sheep or goat (Leviticus 22:18-21,27)

(3)          Bullock, over four years old (Leviticus 22:23)

(4) Male lamb or kid (Leviticus 22:23)

6.  Sacrifices for feasts:

(1)          Passover: male lambs (Exodus 12:5)

(2)          Pentecost: nine male lambs and one male kid ($770), one young bullock ($800), two rams ($250; Leviticus 23:18-19)

Many special offerings are mentioned, nearly all male sacrifices, implying by figure and type the responsibility of Adam, not Eve, as God's agent; emphasizing the iniquity of fathers, not mothers; and symbolizing the Redeemer who came as a Man (1 Tim. 2:4-5). Female offerings simply implied that the woman had a part in the transgression of man and was also provided for in redemption. Females were used only in peace offerings (Leviticus 3) and in minor sin offerings of a personal nature—never in the whole burnt offerings or any that definitely symbolized Christ as the sin-bearer for all men.