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Leviticus 4:14

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when they become aware of the sin they have committed, then the assembly must bring a young bull as a sin offering and present it before the Tent of Meeting.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

when the sin wherein they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bullock for a sin-offering, and bring it before the tent of meeting.

KJV

When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.

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This verse in Leviticus 4

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
When the sin which they have sinned against it,.... Any of the commandments of the Lord forbidding such a thing to be done: is known; is made known to them by the priest, or any other, so that they are convinced that what has been done is wrong, though done through ignorance: then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation; the same offering with that of the anointed priest, he being, as Aben Ezra on the place observes, equal to all Israel.

This site's exposition

if the whole congregation of Israel sin

on Leviticus 4:13-15

A nation can be guilty of something none of it noticed. The verse says the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly and then says they are guilty in the same sentence, so the guilt stands before the knowledge arrives. John Gill records the reading of Rashi, the eleventh century French commentator, and of Maimonides after him, that the congregation here means the Sanhedrin of seventy one whose ruling led the people wrong, which makes this a court's error rather than a crowd's. The elders lay their hands on the bullock in the place of the whole people.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

The fat was the only part of the animal which was offered on the altar; for the carcass, with its appurtenances and offals, was carried without the camp, into the place where the ashes were deposited, and there consumed with fire.
When the sin ... is known - Compare 1Sa 14:31-35.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

עדת ישראל [AND IF THE WHOLE] CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL [ERR] — This is the Great Sanhedrin (Sifra, Vayikra Dibbura d'Chovah, Section 4; cf. Horayot 4b).
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Leviticus 4:13:1, via Sefaria, Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְנֽוֹדְעָה֙and it will be made known

    venodahH3045 →945 times

  • הַֽחַטָּ֔אתthe sin

    hachatatH2403 →295 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • חָטְא֖וּthey have sinned

    chateuH2398 →238 times

  • עָלֶ֑יהָon it

    ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times

  • וְהִקְרִ֨יבוּand they will present

    vehikrivuH7126 →280 times

  • הַקָּהָ֜לthe assembly

    hakahalH6951 →123 times

  • פַּ֤רa bull

    parH6499 →132 times

  • בֶּן־a young one of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • בָּקָר֙[the] herd

    bakarH1241 →183 times

  • לְחַטָּ֔אתto a sin offering

    lechatatH2403 →295 times

  • וְהֵבִ֣יאוּand they will bring

    veheviuH935 →2568 times

  • אֹת֔וֹ<obj.> it

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • לִפְנֵ֖י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • אֹ֥הֶל[the] tent of

    ʾohelH168 →345 times

  • מוֹעֵֽד׃meeting

    moedH4150 →223 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Leviticus 4:23When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.5 worksEzekiel 45:22On that day the prince shall provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.4 worksLeviticus 4:3If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.4 worksLeviticus 4:28When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished female goat as his offering for that sin.2 worksNumbers 8:8Then have them take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 4:28

    When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished female goat as his offering for that sin.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 4:23

      When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.

    • Leviticus 4:3

      If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

  • Through

    Leviticus 4:3

    If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 9:2

      He said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD.

    • Hebrews 7:27–28

      Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when…

    • 2 Corinthians 5:21

      God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

    • Hebrews 5:3

      That is why he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.

  • Through

    Leviticus 4:23

    When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 5:4

      Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he…

    • Romans 8:3

      For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin.…

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 4 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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