Leviticus 4:1-11

Laws for Sin Offerings

1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Speak to the people of Israel, saying, ¹If anyone sins unintentionally^[a] in any of the LORD's commandments ²about things not to be done, and does any one of them,

3 if it is the anointed priest who ³sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed ⁴a bull from the herd without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering.

4 He shall bring the bull to the ⁵entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD and lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before the LORD.

5 And the anointed priest ⁶shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting,

6 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and ⁷sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the LORD in front of the veil of the sanctuary.

7 And the priest ⁸shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the LORD that is in the tent of meeting, and ⁹all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

8 And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall remove from it, ¹⁰the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails

9 ¹¹and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys

10 (just as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offerings); and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.

11 But ¹²the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung--

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Leviticus 4:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 4

This chapter contains the law of the sin offering, which was offered for sins committed through ignorance, error, and mistake, Le 4:1,2 and gives an account of the matter of them, and the rites belonging thereunto, which were different according to the persons for whom it was made, as for the anointed priest, Le 4:3-12 for the whole congregation, Le 4:13-21 and for the ruler, Le 4:22-26 and for any of the common people, Le 4:27-35.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 12

1. Leviticus 5:15, 18; [Psalms 19:12]; See Numbers 15:22-29
2. ver. 13, 22, 27; Leviticus 5:17
3. [Hebrews 7:27, 28]
4. Leviticus 9:2
5. Leviticus 1:3, 4
6. ver. 16, 17; Leviticus 5:9; Leviticus 16:14; Numbers 19:4; [Isaiah 52:15]
7. [See ver. 5 above]
8. Leviticus 8:15; Leviticus 9:9; Leviticus 16:18; [Exodus 39:38]
9. Leviticus 5:9; Leviticus 8:15; Leviticus 9:9; Exodus 29:12
10. Leviticus 3:3
11. Leviticus 3:4
12. Leviticus 9:11; Exodus 29:14; Numbers 19:5

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or by mistake; so throughout Leviticus

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