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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 4:1-12

The laws contained in the first three chapters seem to have been delivered to Moses at one time. Here begin the statutes of another session, another day. From the throne of glory between the cherubim God delivered these orders. And he enters now upon a subject more strictly new than those before. Burnt-offerings, meat-offerings, and peace-offerings, it should seem, had been offered before the giving of the law upon mount Sinai; those sacrifices the patriarchs had not been altogether... read more

Matthew Henry

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 4:2

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying ,.... For this law concerning the sin offering, as the rest, only belonged to them, and such as were proselyted to them: if a soul should sin through ignorance ; sin is from the soul, though committed by the body; it is the soul that sins, Ezekiel 18:4 it includes, as Aben Ezra observes, both Israelites and proselytes; who sinned through ignorance either of the law, that such things were forbidden, or of having committed them, they being done... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:3

If the priest that is anointed do sin ,.... That is, the high priest, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and the Septuagint version, render it; who in after times was only anointed, though at first Aaron's sons were anointed with him; so an high priest is described in Leviticus 21:10 and such an one was liable to sin, and often did; which shows not only that the greatest and best of men are not without sin, but proves what the apostle observes, that the law made men high priests which... read more

John Gill

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

And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord ,.... As the bullock of the burnt offering; See Gill on Leviticus 1:3 , and shall lay his hand on the bullock's head ; the Targum of Jonathan says his right hand; See Gill on Leviticus 1:4 , and kill the bullock before the Lord ; at the door of the tabernacle, that is, in the court, as Gersom observes; according to the above Targum, the butcher killed it, and not the priest: See... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:5

And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood ,.... Let out and received into a basin; this he did himself, and not another, for he offered for himself, and the blood was to make atonement for him: and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation ; out of the court where the bullock was slain, into the holy place, where were the vail that divided between the holy of holies, and the altar of sweet incense, after mentioned. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:6

And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood ,.... The finger of his right hand, as Gersom observes, and so Maimonides F18 Maaseh Hakorbanot, c. 5. sect. 7. Bartenora in Misn. Menachot, c. 3. sect. 4. ; for blood was always taken and sprinkled with the right hand, if done with the left it was wrong, according to the Jewish canons F19 Misn. Zebachim, c. 2. sect. 1. & Bartenora in ib. and though it is only said the priest, and not that is anointed, as before, yet it seems... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:7

And the priest shall put some of the blood ,.... With his finger, which he dipped into it: upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation ; this was the golden altar on which incense was offered: it was placed before the vail, on the outside of it, in the holy place, see Exodus 30:1 and the priest, when he put the blood on the horns of it, began at the northeast horn, so to the northwest, then to the southwest, and last to... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 4:1-12

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 4:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:3

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:7

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