Leviticus 4:20-35 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 4:13-21

This is the law for expiating the guilt of a national sin, by a sin offering. If the leaders of the people, through mistake concerning the law, caused them to err, when the mistake was discovered an offering must be brought, that wrath might not come upon the whole congregation. Observe, 1. It is possible that the church may err, and that her guides may mislead her. It is here supposed that the whole congregation may sin, and sin through ignorance. God will always have a church on earth; but... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 4:22-26

Observe here, 1. That God takes notice of and is displeased with the sins of rulers. Those who have power to call others to account are themselves accountable to the ruler of rulers; for, as high as they are, there is a higher than they. This is intimated in that the commandment transgressed is here said to be the commandment of the Lord his God, Lev. 4:22. He is a prince to others, but let him know the Lord is a God to him. 2. The sin of the ruler which he committed through ignorance is... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 4:27-35

I. Here is the law of the sin-offering for a common person, which differs from that for a ruler only in this, that a private person might bring either a kid or a lamb, a ruler only a kid; and that for a ruler must be a male, for the other a female: in all the circumstances of the management of the offering they agreed. Observe, 1. The case supposed: If any one of the common people sin through ignorance, Lev. 4:27. The prophet supposes that they were not so likely as the great men to know the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:16-21

And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood ,.... That is, the chief priest, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan explain it: to the tabernacle of the congregation ; as he brought the blood of his own bullock, Leviticus 4:5 from hence to the Leviticus 4:16 an account is given of the same rites to be observed in the sin offering, for the congregation, as for the anointed priest; See Gill on Leviticus 4:6 , Leviticus 4:7 , Leviticus 4:12 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:22

When a ruler hath sinned ,.... Or "prince", the "nasi", one that is lifted up above others in honour, power, and authority, or that bears the weight of government: the word comes from one which signifies to lift up, or to bear; it may be understood of a governor of a family, or of a tribe, as Aben Ezra observes; and so in the Talmud F11 T. Bab. Horayot, fol. 11. 1. it is said, it means the prince of a tribe, such as Nachson the son of Amminadab, prince of the tribe of Judah. Maimonides... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:23

Or if his sin wherein he hath sinned come to his knowledge ,.... Or rather, "and if his sin", &c.; F13 או και Sept. "et postea", V. L. & Noldius, p. 3. No. 23. either by means of others informing him of it, or of himself calling to mind what he has done, and considering it to be a transgression of the law: he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish ; his offering was to be a "kid of the goats", a fat and a large one; because, as Baal... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:24

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat ,.... His right hand, as the Targum of Jonathan; See Gill on Leviticus 1:4 . and kill it ; not the prince, but the priest after mentioned, or the butcher, as the same Targum: in the place where they hill the burnt offering before the Lord ; in the court on the north side of the altar, see Leviticus 1:11 , it is a sin offering : an offering for his sin of ignorance, or "sin"; so Christ our offering is said to be, 2... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:25

And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger ,.... With the finger of his right hand, as the Talmudists F14 T. Bab. Zebachim, fol. 24. 1. observe, and Gersom on the place; the priest first received the blood into a basin or ministering vessel, and then dipped the finger of his right hand into it, that next the thumb: and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering ; the four horns of it; in this there was a difference between the sacrifice of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:26

And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar , Of burnt offering, that is, the priest shall do it: as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings ; see Leviticus 3:3 . and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin ; in a typical way, directing to the great sacrifice of Christ, which is the only real atonement and propitiation for sin: the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render, "the priest shall pray for him": for the pardon of his sin: and it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:27

And if anyone of the common people sin through ignorance ,.... Or, "if one soul of the people of the earth": that is, a single person, and so is distinguished from the congregation, one of the common sort of people; however is neither an high priest, nor a prince, or king, but either a common priest, or Levite, or Israelite; no man is free from sin; all sorts of persons, of all ranks and degrees, high and low, rich and poor, men in office, civil or ecclesiastical, or in whatsoever state of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 4:13-21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 4:22-26

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 4:27-35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:16-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:27

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