Bible Commentaries

through

5:15,17, Numbers 15:22-29, Deuteronomy 19:4, 1 Samuel 14:27, Psalms 19:12, 1 Timothy 1:13, Hebrews 5:2, 9:7

which ought

27, Genesis 20:9, James 3:10

the priest

8:12, 21:10-12, Exodus 29:7,21

a young bullock

14, 9:2, 16:6,11, Ezekiel 43:19

for a sin

5:6, Exodus 29:14, 30:10, Numbers 8:8, Ezra 8:35, Romans 8:3, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Hebrews 5:3, Hebrews 7:27,28

bring

1:3, Exodus 29:10,11

lay his hand

1:4, 16:21, Isaiah 53:6, Daniel 9:26, 1 Peter 3:18

16,17, 16:14,19, Numbers 19:4, 1 John 1:7

dip

17,25,30,34, 8:15, 9:9, 16:14,19, Numbers 19:4

seven times

The number seven is what is called a number of perfection among the Hebrews; and is often used to denote the completion, fulness, or perfection of a thing.

14:16,18,27, 25:8, 26:18,24,28, Joshua 6:4,8

the horns

8:15, 9:9, 16:18, Exodus 30:1-10, Psalms 118:27, Hebrews 9:21-15

all the blood

18,34, 5:9, 8:15, Ephesians 2:13

19,26,31,35, 3:3-5,9-11,14-16, 7:3-5, 16:25, Isaiah 53:10, John 12:27

peace offerings: Leviticus 23:19; Psalm 32:1; 1 Timothy 2:5, 1 Timothy 2:6

21, 6:30, 8:14-17, 9:8-11, 16:27, Exodus 29:14, Numbers 19:5, Psalms 103:12, Hebrews 13:11-13

without the camp

Heb. to without the camp. This was intended, figuratively, to express the enormity of this sin, and the availableness of the atonement. The sacrifice, as having the sin of the priest transferred from himself to it, by his confession and imposition of hands, was become unclean and abominable, and was carried, as it were, out of God's sight; and thus its own offensiveness was removed, with the sin of the person in whose behalf it was offered.

13:46, Numbers 5:3, 15:35, 19:3

the ashes

6:10,11

burn him

Exodus 29:14, Numbers 19:5, Hebrews 13:11

where the ashes are poured out

Heb. at the pouring out of the ashes.

the whole congregation

This may refer to some oversight in acts of religious worship, or to some transgression of the letter of the law, which arose out of the peculiar circumstances in which they were found, as in the case mentioned in 1 Sa 14:32, et seq. The sacrifices and rites in this case were the same as in the preceding; only here the elders laid their hands on the head of the victim, in the name of all the congregation.

through ignorance

1,2, 5:2-5,17, Numbers 15:24-29, Joshua 7:11,24-26, 1 Timothy 1:13, Hebrews 10:26-29

and are guilty

5:2-5,17, 6:4, Ezra 10:19, Hosea 5:15; *marg:; 1 Corinthians 11:27

young bullock

the elders

Exodus 24:1,9, Numbers 11:16,25, Deuteronomy 21:3-9

lay

4, 1:4, 16:21

5-12, Hebrews 9:12-14

6,7

upon the

and shall pour out

The reason for pouring out the blood, which is so constantly and strictly required by the law, was in opposition to an idolatrous custom of the ancient Zabii, who "were accustomed to eat of the blood of their sacrifices, because they imagined this to be the food of their gods, with whom they thought they had such communion, by eating their meat, that they revealed to them future things."--Maimonides

8-10,26,31,35, 5:6, 6:7, 12:8, 14:18, Numbers 15:25, Psalms 22:14, Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 9:14

with the

an atonement

26, 1:4, 5:6, 6:7, 12:8, 14:18, Exodus 32:30, Numbers 15:25, Daniel 9:24, Romans 5:11, Galatians 3:13, Hebrews 1:3, 2:17, 9:14, 10:10-12, 1 John 1:7, 2:2, Revelation 1:5

as he

11,12

a sin offering

16:15,21, 2 Chronicles 29:21-24, Ezra 8:35, Matthew 20:28, 2 Corinthians 5:21, 1 Timothy 2:5,6

a ruler hath sinned

Under the term nasi, that is, one preferred or elevated above others, from nasa, to exalt, it is probable that any person is meant who held any kind of political dignity among the people; and it evidently means the head of a tribe as in Nu 1:4, 16; 7:2. But the Rabbins generally understand it of the prince of the great sanhedrin, who, when they were under the regal form of government, was the king. A kid of the goats was the sacrifice in this case; and the rites were nearly the same as in the preceding, only the fat was burnt as that of the peace offering. (ver. 26.)

Exodus 18:21, Numbers 16:2, 2 Samuel 21:1-3, 24:10-17

and done

2,13

if his sin

14, 5:4, 2 Kings 22:10-13

a kid

9:3, 23:19, Numbers 7:16,22,28,34, 15:24, 28:15,30, 29:5,11,16,19, Romans 8:3

And he

4-35, Isaiah 53:6

in the place

1:5,11, 3:2,8,13, 4:4,15,29,33, 6:25, 7:2, 16:15, Exodus 29:38

it is a sin

3,21,31,35

put

7,18,30,34, 8:10,15, 9:9, 16:18, Isaiah 40:21, Romans 3:24-26, 8:3,4, 10:4, Hebrews 2:10, 9:22

the fat

8-10,35

See on ch

3:5, 6:20-30

an atonement

20, Numbers 15:28

any one

Heb. any soul.

2, Numbers 15:27

common people

Heb. people of the land . Am haäretz; that is, any individual who was not a priest, king, or ruler among the people; an ordinary person. Any of these having transgressed, was obliged to bring a lamb or kid, the ceremonies being nearly the same as in the preceding cases.

2,13, Exodus 12:49, Numbers 5:6, 15:16,29

a kid

23,32, 5:6, Genesis 3:15, Isaiah 7:14, Jeremiah 31:22, Romans 8:3, Galatians 4:4,5

a female

23, Galatians 3:28

4,15,24,33, Hebrews 10:4-14

upon the horns

25,34, Isaiah 42:21, Romans 8:3,4, 10:4, Hebrews 2:10

pour out

There may have been some place at the bottom of the altar to receive and carry off the blood.

all the fat

8-10,19,26,35, 3:3-5,9-11,14-16

a sweet

1:9,13,17, 3:3,5, 8:21, Exodus 29:18, Ezra 6:10, Job 42:8, Psalms 40:6,7, Psalms 51:16,17, 69:30,31, Isaiah 42:21, 53:10, Matthew 3:17, Ephesians 5:2, Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 9:12,14,15, 10:12,14, 1 Peter 2:4,5, 1 John 1:7, 4:9,10, Revelation 5:9

and the priest

26,35

a lamb

28, 3:6,7, 5:6, Exodus 12:3,5, Isaiah 53:7, Luke 1:35, John 1:29,36, Hebrews 7:26, 1 Peter 1:18-20, 2:22,24, 3:18, Revelation 5:6,8,9

without blemish

28, Ephesians 5:27, Hebrews 9:14, 1 Peter 2:22, 3:18

4,29-31

the horns of the altar

25,30, Isaiah 42:21, John 17:19, Romans 8:1,3, 10:4, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Hebrews 2:10, Hebrews 10:29, 1 Peter 1:18-20, 2:24, 3:18

And he

according

1:1-6

and the priest shall make

20,26,30,31, 1:4, 5:6,10,13, 6:7, 9:7, 12:8, 14:18,53, 16:1-34, Numbers 15:25, Romans 3:24-26, 4:25, 5:6-11,15-21, 8:1,3,4, 10:4, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Ephesians 1:6,7, 5:2, Colossians 1:14, Hebrews 1:3, 4:14, 7:26, 9:14, 1 Peter 1:18,19, 1 Peter 2:22,24, 3:18, 1 John 1:7, 2:2, 4:9,10, Revelation 1:5,6