This _Sacrificial Feast_ was peculiar to the _Peace-offerings_, and indicated that the atonement was complete, that the sin was covered and cancelled which had separated the offerer from Jehovah, who now welcomed him to His table, and in this meal gave him a pledge of reconciliation. “To an Oriental mind two ideas were inseparably united in the notion of a meal; on the one hand, that of fellowship and friendship existing among the participators themselves, and also between them and the provider of the meal; and on the other hand, that of joy and gladness, so that even the highest and purest joy, viz. blessedness in the kingdom of heaven is described under the figure of a meal[90]” (Ps. xxiii. 5; xxxvi. 8; Matt. viii. 11; xxii. 2–13; Lk. xiv. 16). As the _total consumption by fire_ on the altar was the culminating point in the burnt-offering, so this _sacrificial feast_ was that of the peace-offering, which, therefore, whenever presented with other offerings, was invariably the _last_[91]. (Comp. Ex. xxiv. 5, 11; xxix. 1–32). (c) The _Sin-_ and _Trespass-offerings_ were peculiar to the Mosaic Law, which was _added on account of transgression_ (Gal. iii. 19), and deepened the knowledge and conviction of sin (Rom. vii. 7, &c.). (a) The _Sin-offering_ consisted of _one animal only_, and was not accompanied by a meat-offering. The victim if offered for the whole covenant people was _a kid of the goats_ (Lev. xvi. 5, 9, 15; Num. xxviii. 15, 22, 30); for the priests and Levites at their consecration _a young bullock_ (Ex. xxix. 11; Numb. viii. 8 ff.); for the High-priest on the great day of Atonement _a young bullock_ (Lev. xvi. 3, 6, 11); for the purification of women after childbirth _a young pigeon or turtle-dove_ (Lev. xii. 6, 8; comp. Lk. ii. 22, 24); for the cleansing of a leper or a leprous house _a yearling ewe_; or, in a case of poverty, _a bird for the leper and two for the house_ (Lev. xiv. 13, 22–49); for an inadvertent transgression of some prohibition, (a) on the part of the whole congregation or the High-priest, _a young bullock_, (b) a prince, _a he-goat_, (c) a common man, _a yearling ewe_ or _kid_ (Lev. iv. 1–35).