Leviticus 4:23

23 or his sin he has {committed} is made known to him, he shall bring {a male goat} without defect [as] his offering.

Leviticus 4:23 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 4:23

Or if his sin wherein he hath sinned come to his
knowledge
Or rather, "and if his sin", &c. ^F13 either by means of others informing him of it, or of himself calling to mind what he has done, and considering it to be a transgression of the law:

he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without
blemish;
his offering was to be a "kid of the goats", a fat and a large one; because, as Baal Hatturim observes, he ate fat things every day; and to distinguish it from the offering of one of the common people; and "without blemish"; as all sacrifices were, that they might be typical of the offering of Christ without spot.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (wa) (kai) Sept. "et postea", V. L. & Noldius, p. 3. No. 23.

Leviticus 4:23 In-Context

21 He shall bring [the rest of] the bull {outside the camp}, and he shall burn it {just as} he burned the first bull; it [is] the sin offering for the assembly.

22 " 'When a leader sins and commits an unintentional wrong [against] {any of} the commands of Yahweh his God that should not be {violated}, so that he incurs guilt,

23 or his sin he has {committed} is made known to him, he shall bring {a male goat} without defect [as] his offering.

24 He shall place his hand on the he-goat's head and slaughter it in the place where he slaughtered the burnt offering before Yahweh; it [is] a sin offering.

25 The priest shall take {some of} the sin offering's blood with his finger, and he shall put [it] on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering, and he must pour out [the rest of] its blood on the base of the altar of the burnt offering.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "sinned"
• [b] Or "and he shall bring" or "then he shall bring"
• [c] Literally "a he-goat of goats a male"