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Numbers 15:22

And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,

If ye have erred ... - respecting the performance of divine worship, and the rites and ceremonies that constitute the holy service. This law relates only to any omission, and consequently is quite different from that laid down, Leviticus 4:13, which implies a transgression or positive neglect of some observances required. This law relates to private parties, or individual tribes; that to the whole congregation of Israel.

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See also Numbers 15:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The heavy punishments which had already overtaken the people might naturally give rise to apprehensions for the future, especially in view of the fact that on the approaching entrance into Canaan the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. VARIOUS LAWS, THE SABBATH-BREAKER, AND THE TASSELS ON THE GARMENTS CHAPTER 15 _ 1. Concerning offerings in the land (Numbers 15:1)_ 2. The second communication concerning offerings (Numbers 15:1...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    NUMBERS 15. A NUMBER OF DETACHED REGULATIONS (from P). NUMBERS 15:1. THE QUANTITIES OF FLOUR, OIL, AND WINE APPROPRIATE TO VARIOUS SACRIFICES. The practice of adding such accompaniments to flesh-offe...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Propitiation for inadvertent transgressions_(_a_) Numbers 15:22 committed by the congregation as a whole; (_b_) Numbers 15:27 by individuals. To these is added the provision that deliberate transgres...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Errors of the whole congregation_. No detailed instances are given; but such errors might consist in some mistake or omission in ritual, or some miscarriage of justice discovered too late; or the err...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    Part Three: The Years of Wandering (Numbers 15; Numbers 16; Numbers 17; Numbers 18; Numbers 19;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    LAWS REGARDING VARIOUS OFFERINGS 1-16. Meal and Drink Offerings. The offerings here referred to are those presented along with other sacrifices (see on the Meal Offering, Leviticus 2), and an enactmen...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 15 LAWS ABOUT *SACRIFICES – NUMBERS 15:1-29 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses. V2 He told Moses to give th

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND IF YE HAVE ERRED, AND NOT OBSERVED. — Rather, _And if ye shall err and not observe. _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ כִ֣י תִשְׁגּ֔וּ וְ לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֔וּ אֵ֥ת

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    OFFERINGS: SABBATH-KEEPING: DRESS Numbers 15:1 THE enactments of this chapter regarding meal offerings and drink offerings, the heave offerings of the first dough, and the atonement for unwitting err...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Once more we have the repetition and enforcement of certain laws already given. Occurring here, this appears somewhat strange. The explanation, I think, is to be found in the opening declaration, "Whe...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And if ye (f) have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, (f) By oversight or ignorance, read (Leviticus 4:2; Leviticus 4:13)....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Ignorance. Other victims are prescribed; (Leviticus iv. 13,) so that the ignorance here mentioned must be of a different nature. The former was perhaps a sin of commission, and this a sin of omission;...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! I charge it upon your conscience as I pray for grace, to keep it always alive upon my own, that as every sacrifice under the law referred to that one glorious sacrifice of JESUS, so we see her...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise. It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    22._And if ye have erred. _He teaches by what kind of sacrifice the sins of the whole people or of each individual are to be expiated, although he enumerates only two of the four classes which are men...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    After all this unbelief of the people, when God had declared that the earth should be filled with His glory, by the cutting off of the rebellious congregation, and when one might have supposed they ha...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IF YE HAVE ERRED,.... Gone astray from the law of God, and any of its precepts; every sin is an error, a missing of the mark, a wandering from the way of God's commandments. Jarchi, and the Jews i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, Ver. 22. _And if ye hath erred and not observed._] Not serving of God, not sacrificing, is a sin....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Have erred, and not observed all these commandments_ If the whole body of the people be guilty of any neglect of the public ceremonies of religion, or of any deviation from any of the rites institute...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The law of the meat offering and the drinke offring. 13.29 The stranger is vnder the same law. 17 The law of the first of the dough for a heaue offering. 22 The sacrifice for sinne of ignorance....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And if ye have erred and not observed all these commandments which the Lord hath spoken unto Moses,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ORDINANCES CONCERNING VARIOUS OFFERINGS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    OFFERINGS WHEN IN THE LAND (vs.1-21) In this chapter the abrupt change from the subject of Chapter 14 may seem strange to us. However, God is infinitely wise and infinitely good. Chapter 14 has shown...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    22-29 Though ignorance will in a degree excuse, it will not justify those who might have known their Lord's will, yet did it not. David prayed to be cleansed from his secret faults, those sins which...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The words with which our chapter opens are peculiarly striking, when taken in connection with the contents of chapter 14. There all seemed dark and hopeless. Moses had to say to the people, "_Go not u...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 15:22 unintentionally H7686 (H8799) observe H6213 (H8799) commandments H4687 LORD H3068 spoken H1696 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Burnt and free will offerings. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, man who broke Sabbath. CONCLUSION: Sins committed ignorantly must have atonement made for them, for although God is very merciful wit...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Numbers 15:30. _The soul that doeth ought presumptuously,_ literally, with a high hand, _reproacheth the Lord shall be cut off;_ or die, as Deuteronomy 17:12. But in Leviticus 6., atonement was prescr...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 15:1__ At each place where Israel encamped for a long time, laws were given: at Sinai (Exodus 20:1–

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 15:22 Sins that are unintentional or that are done in ignorance may be atoned for by a sin offering (compare Leviticus 4:1)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    All these commandments — Those now spoken of, which concern the outward service of God, or the rites or ceremonies belonging to it. And herein principally this law may seem to differ from that Levitic...

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