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Numbers 15:27

And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.

If any soul sin through ignorance - not only in common with the general body of the people, but this personal sins were to be expiated in the same manner.

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  • 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

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SOUL. person. Hebrew. _nephesh_ See App-13. Compare verses: Numbers 15:28; Numbers 15:30. SIN. Hebrew. _chata._ App-44....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Errors of an individual_....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The offering is _a she-goat of_ ONE YEAR OLD _for a sin-offering_....

  • 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...

  • 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

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND IF ANY SOUL SIN THROUGH IGNORANCE. — There is no restriction here, as in Leviticus 4:27, to sins of commission....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אִם ־נֶ֥פֶשׁ אַחַ֖ת תֶּחֱטָ֣א בִ שְׁגָגָ֑ה

  • 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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT FOR SABBATH-BREAKING Numbers 15:27 This chapter resembles a sweet flute-like melody inserted between two fierce strains. It reminds us that in the middle of wrath God remembers m...

  • 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...

  • 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

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  • 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 ANY SOUL SIN THROUGH IGNORANCE,.... Any private or particular person, by breaking any of the above commands, or any other, not rightly understanding them, or not adverting: to the circumstances...

  • 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

    ORDINANCES CONCERNING VARIOUS OFFERINGS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And if any soul, one of the ordinary members of the congregation, SIN THROUGH IGNORANCE, THEN HE SHALL BRING A SHE-GOAT OF THE FIRST YEAR FOR A SIN-OFFERING, Leviticus 4:27....

  • 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

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

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  • 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

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 15:27 These verses deal with unintentional sin committed by ONE PERSON (compare Leviticus 4:27). Atonement is required for such a person

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this and the next four Chapter s we have a narrative of certain occurrences and enactments during the penal wandering in the desert, which lasted for nearly thirty-ei...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now, in chapter fifteen, The LORD spoke unto Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and When you come into the land (Numbers 15:1-2), Now this is interesting, right after their failure to ent...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Timothy 1:13; Acts 17:30; Acts 3:17; Leviticus 4:27; Leviticus 4:28

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