John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:30-31
And the priest shall take of the blood ,.... So that all the preceding actions, the bringing the offering, the putting the hand upon the head of it, and slaying it, were done by the man that sinned; of this and what follows here and in the next verse Leviticus 4:31 ; see Gill on Leviticus 4:25 , Leviticus 4:26 . read more
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