The Problem of the Uneaten Sin Offering

¹⁶ Then^[a] Moses sought all over for the goat of the sin offering and behold, it was burned up. So^[b] he was angry with Aaron’s remaining sons Eleazar and Ithamar, saying, ¹⁷ “Why did you not eat the sin offering on the sanctuary’s site, because it is a most holy thing?^[c] And he gave it to you to remove the community’s guilt, to make atonement for them before^[d] Yahweh. ¹⁸ Look, its blood was not brought inside the sanctuary.^[e] Certainly you should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”

¹⁹ So^[f] Aaron said to Moses, “Look, today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before^[g] Yahweh, and things such as these have happened to me, and if I were to eat a sin offering today, would it have been good in Yahweh’s eyes?” ²⁰ When^[h] Moses heard, it^[i] was good in his eyes.