Footnote

a Insight on the Scriptures, published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., explains: “As used in the Bible, ‘atonement’ has the basic thought of ‘cover’ or ‘exchange,’ and that which is given in exchange for, or as a ‘cover’ for, another thing must be its duplicate. . . . To make adequate atonement for what was forfeited by Adam, a sin offering having the precise value of a perfect human life would have to be provided.”