Leviticus 5:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A trespass — Against the Lord and his priests. Through ignorance — For if a man did it knowingly, he was to be cut off, Numbers 15:30. In the holy things — In things consecrated to God, and to holy uses; such as tithes and first — fruits, or any things due, or devoted to God, which possibly a man might either with — hold, or employ to some common use. A ram — A more chargeable sacrifice than the former, as the sin of sacrilege was greater. With thy estimation — As thou shalt esteem or rate it, thou, O priest; and at present, thou, O Moses, for he as yet performed the priest's part. And this was an additional charge and punishment to him; besides the ram, he was to pay for the holy thing which he had with — held or abused, so many shekels of silver as the priest should esteem proportionable to it.