Editing Sin offering (section)

==Ritual==
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The ritual of the purification offering began with the offerer confessing his/her unintentional transgression while placing his/her hands and pushing his/her full weight over the head of the animal. In the case of community offerings the elders performed this function, in the case of Yom Kippur, the high priest performed this task. The animal would then be [[Shechitah|slaughtered]] by a [[Shochet]] ("ritual butcher"), the blood carefully collected by the [[Kohen]] ("priest") in an earthen vessel and sprayed/thrown on the two outer corners of the [[Mizbeach]] ("altar"), while the [[fat]], [[liver]], [[kidney]]s, and [[caul]], were burnt on the roof of the altar.

On [[Yom Kippur]]—the Day of Atonement—some of the blood would be sprinkled in front of the veil covering the entrance to the [[Holy of Holies]] when the blood would be sprinkled in front of the [[mercy seat]]; this was done seven times. The remainder of the blood was poured out at the base of the altar, and the earthen vessel that had contained it would be smashed.

The remaining flesh of the animal (in later rabbinical interpretation as one of the [[twenty-four kohanic gifts]]) was later consumed by the [[Kohen]] and his family, except when the priest himself was the offerer (such as in community offerings, and in the case of the Day of Atonement), when it would be burnt at a [[ritually clean]] location outside the Temple sanctuary.<ref>Leviticus 4:12</ref> Leviticus 6:26 stipulates that "the priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of meeting",<ref name="New King James Version">New King James Version</ref> a point repeated at Leviticus 7:7, whereas Leviticus 6:29 allows that "all the males among the priests may eat it", suggesting that the proceeds of sin offerings could be shared within the kohanic community. The sharing of [[grain offering]]s within the kohanic community was more clearly endorsed by Leviticus 7:10 - "Every grain offering, whether mixed with oil or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, to one as much as the other".<ref name="New King James Version"/>

When the sacrificial animal was a bird, the ritual was quite different. The bird was slaughtered by a thumb being pushed into its neck, and the head being wrung off. A second bird would then be burnt on the altar as a ''[[holocaust (sacrifice)|whole sacrifice]]'', completely immolated by fire.<ref name="Jewish Encyclopedia"/>