9:15 Then he presented the people’s offering. He took the sin offering male goat which was for the people, slaughtered it, and performed a decontamination rite with it18 like the first one.19
tn The expression “and performed a decontamination rite [with] it” reads literally in the MT, “and decontaminated [with] it.” The verb is the Piel of חטא (kht’, Qal = “to sin”), which means “to decontaminate, purify” (i.e., “to de-sin”; see the note on Lev 8:15).
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sn The phrase “like the first one” at the end of the verse refers back to the sin offering for the priests described in vv. 8–11 above. The blood of the sin offering of the common people was applied to the burnt offering altar just like that of the priests.