When a person has sinned and is guilty, he is to give back what he took by robbery, or what he gained by exploitation, or what was deposited with him, or the lost thing he found.
What it teaches
Repentance. Admitting a mistake, putting it right and returning to the good path.
The Torah sees a lie to another person as a betrayal of God too, and yet, before the offering, it describes the repair made with that person. The one who sinned returns the property to its owner and adds a fifth. Repentance for hurting someone is a concrete act that reaches the one who was hurt.
The lesson
The road to forgiveness runs through the person we wronged.
Hashem calls Moshe by name from the Tent of Meeting and opens the laws of the offerings, whose very name means drawing near.
For children, teens and adults
Sefer Shemot ended with the Mishkan complete and the cloud of Hashem’s presence filling it, so full that Moshe could not go in. Sefer Vayikra opens exactly there, with Moshe outside the tent he has just built, and a voice calling him by name from inside it. What follows is a whole book of detailed law about offerings, but it starts with something much simpler: an invitation, addressed to one person.
The verses are from Miqra according to the Masorah (Wikisource, CC BY-SA 4.0), via Sefaria, without the cantillation marks. On this site the four-letter Name is written ה׳.
