English: “From the people of the land” — excluding a mumar, from whom offerings are not accepted.
In the sugya: The phrase “from the people of the land” is read as a miyut that removes the mumar from the category of those whose chatas is accepted.
Type of Learning
Miyut of the mumar — an apostate’s chatas is not accepted.
What Is Learned
A mumar (one who has rejected the covenant in a fundamental way) is excluded from bringing a chatas under this verse. The Temple does not accept his offering. The language “from the people of the land” supplies the exclusion.