Leviticus 4:13-21

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congregation <05712> [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.

unintentionally <07686> [through ignorance.]

guilty <0816> [and are guilty.]

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young bull <06499 01241> [young bullock.]

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elders <02205> [the elders.]

lay <05564> [lay.]

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horns <07161> [upon the.]

pour <08210> [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

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bull ........ bull <06499> [with the.]

atonement <03722> [an atonement.]

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burn ...... burned <08313> [as he.]

sin offering <02403> [a sin offering.]