Verse 11
11. Sin offering See Leviticus 4:0, notes. Moral and ceremonial impurities are treated alike in the Levitical law.
Burnt offering See Leviticus i, notes.
Atonement See Leviticus 1:4; Leviticus 4:20, notes. It is equivalent to the covering up or concealing of that which God cannot allow in his presence. In Hebrew phraseology, to atone is to remove or annihilate. Atonement is the basal notion and essential characteristic of every bloody sacrifice in Mosaism. But we have no proof that the Hebrews saw in the typical atonement the great expiation made by the coming Antitype. The type, to one ignorant of the antitype, predicts and elucidates nothing. Though nowhere in the Old Testament is faith in an atoning Messiah required as the condition of pardon, yet faith in a priestly atonement involving blood was certainly the condition of both pardon and pretty in Mosaism. Thus was foreshadowed the necessity of a satisfaction of the ethical nature of both God and man, in the justification of sinners.
Sinned An act without the concurrence of the will cannot be properly called sin, yet it may be in the eye of the law such a “missing of the mark” as may need an atonement.
By the dead Literally, upon the nephesh, or soul. See Numbers 5:2, note.
Hallow his head “Begin again the count of his Nazariteship.” Jarchi.
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