Leviticus 4:22
When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty; When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;
Leviticus 4:22 begins the law of the sin offering for a ruler or for one of the common people, extending through verse 35. For the offering of such a person its blood was not carried into the holy place to be sprinkled before the veil and put on the horns of the golden altar. Its flesh was to be eaten by the priest who offered it for sin, in a holy place in the court of the tent of meeting.
The sin offering belongs to a system distinguished by the sanctification of property, in which God kept His claims paramount and reminded the people of the Giver in almost every article by requiring returns to Him. The requirement rested not on one class but on all, proportioned to what was possessed, so the amount required matches the amount bestowed and the larger the capital entrusted the more valuable the gift required in return. Christians possessing ten or twenty thousand dollars remain under that claim and must present sin-offerings and thank-offerings beyond the proportion due under the tithing system, with conscientious givers returning about one-third of all income for religious interests and for the poor besides special free-will offerings.