Numbers 15:25

25 The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the Israelites, and they shall be forgiven; it was unintentional, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their error.

Numbers 15:25 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 15:25

And the priest shall make an atonement for all the
congregation of the children of Israel;
&c.] By offering a sin offering for them, a type of Christ, the propitiation not only for the sins of the people among the Jews, but throughout the whole world, ( 1 John 2:2 ) ;

and it shall be forgiven them;
as the sins of the Lord's people are forgiven them through the blood of Christ, and on account of his stoning sacrifice and satisfaction made for them:

for it [is] ignorance;
a sin of ignorance, for which reason Christ pleads for pardon on the foot of his sacrifice, and his people receive it, ( Luke 23:34 ) ( 1 Timothy 1:13 ) ; for that this sin was forgiven on the score of a sacrifice appears by what follows:

and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the
Lord;
the bullock for the burnt offering:

and their sin offering before the Lord, for their ignorance;
a kid of the goats.

Numbers 15:25 In-Context

23 everything that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day the Lord gave commandment and thereafter, throughout your generations—

24 then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, the whole congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, a pleasing odor to the Lord, together with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.

25 The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the Israelites, and they shall be forgiven; it was unintentional, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their error.

26 All the congregation of the Israelites shall be forgiven, as well as the aliens residing among them, because the whole people was involved in the error.

27 An individual who sins unintentionally shall present a female goat a year old for a sin offering.