Charles Ellicott Commentary Leviticus 7

Likewise this is the law ... . — Better, and this is the law:, etc. Just as Leviticus 6:24-30 contains additional regulations addressed to the priest about the rites of the sin offering, so Leviticus 7:1-10 gives more precise instructions about the trespass offering, supplementing Leviticus 5:1-13, also designed for the guidance of the priest.

In the place where they kill. —That is, the north side of the altar (Leviticus 1:11).

Shall they kill the trespass offering. —That is, the people who bring these sacrifices are to kill them, since the offerers themselves slaughtered the victim .

The blood thereof shall he sprinkle. —Better, throw the blood .

Unlike the sin offering, whose blood was thrown upon the horns of the altar (Leviticus 4:25, 30, 34), the blood of the trespass offering was simply thrown upon the walls of the altar, or around it .

During the Second Temple, there was a scarlet line or thread around the altar, exactly in the middle. The blood of the trespass offering and of the peace offering was thrown around below the central line, while that of the whole burnt offering was thrown around above the central line.

And he shall offer. —For the regulations described here, see Leviticus 3:3-4; Leviticus 3:8–9, etc.

And the priest shall burn. — These fat pieces he shall burn, as in the case of the sin offering and peace offering (Leviticus 4:26; Leviticus 4:31).

There is one law for them. —That is, the same rule, as stated in Leviticus 6:27-28, applies to both the sin offering and the trespass offering; hence what is omitted in the regulation of the one must be supplied from the directions given in the other.