Midrash sobre Provérbios 25:17

(Fol. 7) R. Levi raised the following contradiction. It is written (Prov. 25, 17) Make thy foot scarce to the house of thy friend, and it is also written (Pa. 66, 13) I will enter Thy house with burnt-offerings. He explained that one deals with sin-offerings and the other deals with burnt-offerings. We are also taught in a Baraitha (Prov. 25, 17). Make thy foot scarce to the house of thy friend. The passage deals with sin-offerings. Whence do we deduce this? Perhaps it deals with burnt, or peace-offerings? Since it is written (Ps. 66, 13) I will enter Thy house with burnt-offerings; I will pay unto Thee my vows (Peace-offerings). Since we infer from this that burnt and peace-offerings one may offer whenever he chooses, what, then, does the former verse refer to? We must conclude that it refers to sin-offerings.