Note, it is not ‘he shall be accepted’ but rather ‘it shall be accepted.’ The emphasis is upon the acceptance of the offering, as the ground of the offerers own acceptance. Moreover, the tense of the verb does not look to the distant future, it denotes immediate acceptance and certain assurance. The offerer would know, there and then, that he was divinely accepted because his offering had been received. There was also a laying on of hands by the offerer in the case of the Sin Offering, and these