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Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 4:27-35

The case of a common man. He is to offer a kid of the goats, or rather a she-goat. The ritual is to be the same as in the previous case. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 4:27-35

The sins of the common people. The idea of the distinction is that those who, by their distance from the sanctuary and their lack of education, are more exposed to the possibility of offense, are less guilty, and therefore require a somewhat lower sacrifice. A female kid or a lamb would suffice; but the same ceremonies were indispensable—the laying on of hands, the touching of the horns of the altar of burnt offering with blood, the pouring out of the blood at the bottom of the altar, the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 4:27

The common people - literally, as in the margin, “the people of the land.” Compare Leviticus 20:2, Leviticus 20:4; 2 Kings 11:18. It was the ordinary designation of the people, as distinguished from the priests and the rulers. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 4:28

Leviticus 4:28. A female Which here was sufficient, because the sin of one of those was less than the sin of the ruler, for whom a male was required. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:1-35

The sin offering: regulations (4:1-35)Burnt offerings, cereal offerings and peace offerings were not compulsory; people made them voluntarily to express their devotion. The sin offering, however, was compulsory whenever people realized they had committed some (accidental) sin that broke their fellowship with God. In the other offerings there was an element of atonement (for sin affects everything that people do), but in the sin offering, atonement was the central issue.The animal was killed in... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 4:27

one = soul. Hebrew. nephesh. See App-13 . be guilty = acknowledges his guilt, as in Leviticus 4:22 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 4:28

female for one of the People, male for "ruler", Leviticus 4:22 . Compare Leviticus 5:13 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Leviticus 4:27

"And if any of the common people sin unwittingly, in doing any one of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done, and be guilty, if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, be made known to him, he shall bring for his oblation a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned. And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and kill the sin-offering in the place of the burnt-offering. And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 4:27

27-34. if any one of the common people sin through ignorance—In this case the expiatory offering appointed was a female kid, or a ewe-lamb without blemish; and the ceremonies were exactly the same as those observed in the case of the offending ruler [ :-]. In these two latter instances, the blood of the sin offering was applied to the altar of burnt offering—the place where bloody sacrifices were appointed to be immolated. But the transgression of a high priest, or of the whole congregation,... read more

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