Leviticus 19:21 (DRB)

Passage

And for his trespass he shall offer a ram to the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.

Nearby Context

Leviticus 19:19 Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy cattle to gender with beasts of any other kind. Thou shalt not sow thy field with different seeds. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of two sorts.

Leviticus 19:20 If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman.

Leviticus 19:21 And for his trespass he shall offer a ram to the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.

Leviticus 19:22 And the priest shall pray for him: and for his sin before the Lord: and he shall have mercy on him, and the sin shall be forgiven.

Leviticus 19:23 When you shall be come into the land, and shall have planted in it fruit trees, you shall take away the firstfruits of them. The fruit that comes forth shall be unclean to you: neither shall you eat of them.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "trespass", "shall", "offer", "lord", "door", "tabernacle", and "testimony". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "trespass" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 20's "If a man carnally lie with a..." into verse 22's "And the priest shall pray for him...", so "trespass" and "shall" belong inside that flow. In Leviticus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "trespass" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.