Leviticus 14:21 meaning and explanation

If, however, the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,

Leviticus 14:21, Berean Standard Bible

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The LORD is speaking to Moses, setting out the ritual by which a person healed of a serious skin disease is restored to the community. Verses 10 and 21 describe the same cleansing, but the second makes room for poverty: instead of three lambs, the poor person brings one male lamb as a guilt offering, a smaller grain offering, and two birds in place of the other lambs.

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