Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 4:14
When the sin ... is known - Compare 1 Samuel 14:31-35. read more
Leviticus-4:14
Albert Barnes
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 4:13-14
Leviticus 4:13-14. The whole congregation The body of the people, or the greater part of them, their rulers concurring with them. A bullock But if the sin of the congregation was only the omission of some ceremonial duty, a kid of the goats was to be offered, Numbers 15:24. 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 4:14
sin . . . sinned. Hebrew. chat'a. App-44 . offer = cause to be offered. Compare ' Leviticus 4:12 . for the sin = as a sin offering. See App-43 . 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 4:14
(14) Offer a young bullock.—The same sacrifice which is prescribed for the sin of the high priest (comp. Leviticus 4:3), and though not expressed here, it must be without blemish.And bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.—Better, before the tent of meeting. (See Leviticus 1:3.) This no more means that the whole congregation or the thousands of Israelites are all to lay hold of the victim, and carry it to the appointed place of slaughter, than the phrase in Leviticus 4:12 signifies... 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
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:13-14
ete_me Leviticus 4:13-14GRADED RESPONSIBILITYLeviticus 4:3; Leviticus 4:13-14; Leviticus 4:22-23; Leviticus 4:27-28"If the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the people; then let him offer for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the Lord for a sin offering And if the whole congregation of Israel shall err, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which the Lord hath commanded not to be done, and are... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 4:13-21
The whole congregation sinners through ignorance. The sacrifice is very similar to the high priest's. The ruling thought in both cases is that of sin attaching to those who represent the covenant of God. The people, whether as a nation or assembly, or as a house of God, a worshipping congregation, whether in its ciders or rulers, or in its high priest, were in a covenant relation to Jehovah; therefore might offend against that relation, and required atonement to be made. Take up the... read more