4:1 ¶ And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any
of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be
done, and shall do against any of them: 3
If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the
people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock
without blemish unto the LORD for a sin
offering. 4 And he shall
bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before
the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock’s head, and kill the bullock
before the LORD. 5 And the priest that
is anointed shall take of the bullock’s blood, and bring it to the tabernacle
of the congregation: 6 And the priest
shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before
the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary. 7
And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the
altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of
the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of
the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation. 8 And he shall take
off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that
covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is
upon the inwards, 9 And the
two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the
flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away,
10 As it was taken off from the bullock
of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the
altar of the burnt offering. 11 And the
skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and
his inwards, and his dung, 12 Even the
whole bullock
shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where
the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes
are poured out shall he be burnt.
Bible characters who
lived before the Law was given were not unaccustomed to sacrifices for peace
with God.
Genesis 8:20 ¶ And Noah
builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every
clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the
LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s
sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is
evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as
I have done.
For sin.
Job 1:5 And it was so, when
the days of their feasting were
gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the
morning, and offered burnt offerings according
to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned,
and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
In the Old Testament
the person’s body and soul were linked in sin. The soul suffered under the
weight of the transgressions of the flesh. So, the soul is often referred to as
the entire person, meaning body and soul, as here.
Leviticus 7:18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of
his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted,
neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an
abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
But, the redeemed
believer, both Jew and non-Jew or Gentile, called sometimes Greek in Paul’s
writings as the dominant culture was Greek, experiences an operation of God at
their new birth that cuts the soul from the body. It is a spiritual
circumcision.
Colossians 2:11 In whom
also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting
off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye
are risen with him through the
faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
A soul could sin
through ignorance without understanding they had violated the Law and an
important principle is that one was still held accountable for their sins, even
those done in ignorance.
King David sang;
Psalm 19:12 Who can
understand his errors? cleanse
thou me from secret faults.
Peter stated that the
people and their rulers murdered Christ out of ignorance.
Acts 3:12 ¶ And when Peter
saw it, he answered unto the
people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on
us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and
of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye
delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined
to let him go. 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and
desired a murderer to be granted unto you; 15
And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead;
whereof we are witnesses. 16 And his
name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know:
yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the
presence of you all. 17 And now, brethren, I wot that through
ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
As Jesus Himself said
from the cross;
Luke 23:34 Then said
Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
In this passage this is
not Job’s just-in-case-they’ve-sinned sacrifice but a sacrifice to be made when
one realizes they have done something against God but did not do it willfully.
Judas acknowledged that
he had betrayed innocent blood in Jesus. First, from Psalms;
Psalm 94:21 They gather
themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Matthew 27:3 Then Judas,
which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself,
and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 Saying, I have sinned in
that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
The rulers of the Jews,
the Sanhedrin, the council had the opportunity to confess their sin but they
would not hear when Stephen confronted them and exposed it to them.
Acts 7:52 Which of the
prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which
shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the
betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have
received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
54 ¶ When they heard these
things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
One thing of note about
verse 6 is that seven is often the number of something being completed in the
Bible. A word study of seven would be
an excellent subject for a Bible study.
For verse 12 know that
Christ Himself was offered without the
camp.
Hebrews 13:11 For the
bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high
priest for sin, are burned without the camp. 12
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own
blood, suffered without the gate.
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