‏ Leviticus 4:4-14

bring Lev 1:3; Exod 29:10-11

lay his hand Lev 1:4, Lev 16:21; Isa 53:6; Dan 9:26; 1Pet 3:18

Lev 4:16-17, Lev 16:14, Lev 16:19; Num 19:4; 1John 1:7

dip Lev 4:17, Lev 4:25, Lev 4:30, Lev 4:34, Lev 8:15, Lev 9:9, Lev 16:14, Lev 16:19; Num 19:4

seven times The number seven is what is called a number of perfection among the Hebrews; and is often used to denote the completion, fulness, or perfection of a thing. Lev 14:16, Lev 14:18, Lev 14:27, Lev 25:8, Lev 26:18, Lev 26:24, Lev 26:28; Josh 6:4, Josh 6:8

the horns Lev 8:15, Lev 9:9, Lev 16:18; Exod 30:1-10; Ps 118:27; Heb 9:21-25

all the blood Lev 4:18, Lev 4:34, Lev 5:9, Lev 8:15; Eph 2:13

Lev 4:19, Lev 4:26, Lev 4:31, Lev 4:35, Lev 3:3-5, Lev 3:9-11, Lev 3:14-16, Lev 7:3-5, Lev 16:25; Isa 53:10; John 12:27

peace offerings Lev 23:19; Ps 32:1; 1Tim 2:5-6

Lev 4:21, Lev 6:30, Lev 8:14-17, Lev 9:8-11, Lev 16:27; Exod 29:14; Num 19:5; Ps 103:12; Heb 13:11-13

without the camp Heb. to without the camp, This was intended, figuratively, to express the enormity of this sin, and the availableness of the atonement. The sacrifice, as having the sin of the priest transferred from himself to it, by his confession and imposition of hands, was become unclean and abominable, and was carried, as it were, out of God's sight; and thus its own offensiveness was removed, with the sin of the person in whose behalf it was offered. Lev 13:46; Num 5:3, Num 15:35, Num 19:3

the ashes Lev 6:10-11

burn him Exod 29:14; Num 19:5; Heb 13:11

where the ashes are poured out Heb. at the pouring out of the ashes

the whole congregation This may refer to some oversight in acts of religious worship, or to some transgression of the letter of the law, which arose out of the peculiar circumstances in which they were found, as in the case mentioned in 1Sam 14:32, et seq. The sacrifices and rites in this case were the same as in the preceding; only here the elders laid their hands on the head of the victim, in the name of all the congregation.

through ignorance Lev 4:1-2, Lev 5:2-5, Lev 5:17; Num 15:24-29; Josh 7:11, Josh 7:24-26; 1Tim 1:13; Heb 10:26-29

and are guilty Lev 5:2-5, Lev 5:17, Lev 6:4; Ezra 10:19; Hos 5:15 *marg. 1Cor 11:27

young bullock Lev 4:3

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