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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 4:34

of the blood of the sin offering. A reading of the Severus Codex is "from its blood", as in Leviticus 4:30 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 4:35

Sacrifice. Hebrew. zebach. App-43 . according to = upon. offerings made by fire. Hebrew. ishsheh. App-43 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 4:35

Leviticus 4:35. It shall be forgiven him— The great design of sin-offerings, says one, was to imprint the remembrance of guilt upon the heart; and to preserve from offending for the future. The words according to, upon, or with, says Dr. Beaumont, have reference either to the fat of the peace-offering, according as that was burned; or to the daily burnt-offering, which was first offered; and other sacrifices after, and, as it were, upon, or with the same. REFLECTIONS.—The offering of a private... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 4:35

35. it shall be forgiven him—None of these sacrifices possessed any intrinsic value sufficient to free the conscience of the sinner from the pollution of guilt, or to obtain his pardon from God; but they gave a formal deliverance from a secular penalty (Hebrews 9:13; Hebrews 9:14); and they were figurative representations of the full and perfect sin offering which was to be made by Christ. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 4:1-35

The Sin Offering (4:1-5:13) and the Guilt Offering (5:14-6:7)These are later and specialised forms of the Burnt Offering. They presuppose a state of matters in which the good relationship between God and the offerer has been interrupted by sin, and the purpose of both is to make atonement for, or cover, the sin of the guilty person or persons. The difference between the two seems to be that while the sin offering is provided for those offences which could not be undone or repaired, the guilt... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 4:35

(35) According to the offerings made by fire.—Better, upon the offerings made by fire. As the daily morning sacrifice was offered first every day, and as it continued burning on the altar all the forenoon, no fresh or special fire was to be kindled for it, but it was to be upon the fire sacrifices which had already been placed there before. (See Leviticus 3:5; Leviticus 5:12.) The flesh of the sin offering, both for the prince and for the individual members of the community, was not burnt... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:1-35

THE SIN OFFERINGLeviticus 4:1-35BOTH in the burnt offering and in the peace offering, Israel was taught, as we are, that all consecration and all fellowship with God must begin with, and ever depends upon, atonement made for sin. But this was not the dominant thought in either of these offerings; neither did the atonement, as made in these, have reference to particular acts of sin. For such, these offerings were never prescribed. They remind us therefore of the necessity of atonement, not so... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:4-35

THE RITUAL OF THE SIN OFFERINGLeviticus 4:4-35; Leviticus 5:1-13; Leviticus 6:24-30ACCORDING to the Authorised Version, {; Leviticus 5:6-7} it might seem that the section, Leviticus 5:1-13, referred not to the sin offering, but to the guilt offering, like the latter part of the chapter; but, as suggested in the margin of the Revised Version, in these verses we may properly read, instead of "guilt offering," "for his guilt." That the latter rendering is to be preferred is clear when we observe... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Leviticus 4:1-35

4. The Sin Offering CHAPTERS 4-5:13 1. The second utterance of Jehovah (Leviticus 4:1-2 ) 2. The sin offering for the high priest (Leviticus 4:3-12 ) 3. The sin offering for the congregation (Leviticus 4:13-21 ) 4. The sin offering for the ruler (Leviticus 4:22-26 ) 5. The sin offering for one of the people (Leviticus 4:27-35 ) 6. The sin offering for special inadvertent offences (Leviticus 5:1-13 ) The burnt offering, meal offering, and peace offering typified the absolute and... read more

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