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**spake.** Introducing new class: *non savour* offerings. The sweet savour offerings introduced by the word "called". See note on [Leviticus 5:14](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/14) .

**children.** Hebrew sons.
**soul.** Hebrew. *nephesh.* See App-13 . Not as in the burnt offering; no voluntary offering here.
**ignorance.** If man cannot *know* what sin is, how can he know how to put it away? If he know not his own sin, how can he know or put away that of others?

**the priest that is anointed.** This phrase is confined to Lev. ([Leviticus 4:3](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/3) , [Leviticus 4:5](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/5) , [Leviticus 4:16](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/16) ; [Leviticus 6:22](../../../kjv/leviticus/6/22) ) four times. In other portions of the Pentateuch it is "high priest" or "great priest" ([Leviticus 21:10](../../../kjv/leviticus/21/10) . [Numbers 35:25](../../../kjv/numbers/35/25) , [Numbers 35:28](../../../kjv/numbers/35/28) , and in [Joshua 20:6](../../../kjv/joshua/20/6) ), after this it is "chief priest" ([2 Kings 25:18](../../../kjv/2-kings/25/18) . [2 Chronicles 19:11](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/19/11) ; [2 Chronicles 26:20](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/26/20) ; [2 Chronicles 31:10](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/31/10) . [Ezra 7:5](../../../kjv/ezra/7/5) . Hag. and Zech.)
**do sin.** Hebrew. *chat'a.* App-44 .
**the sin.** Hebrew. *'asham.* See App-44 .
**his sin . . . sinned.** Hebrew. *chat'a.* App-44 .
**sin offering.** Hebrew. *chat'a.* "Offering" not in Hebrew; rightly supplied here, as it should be in [Genesis 4:7](../../../kjv/genesis/4/7) .

**door** = entrance.
**tabernacle of the congregation** = tent of assembly.

**sprinkle.** Hebrew throw, or splash.
**seven times.** The number of spiritual perfection. See App-10 .
**before.** Not in the Hebrew. On vail or floor. Explanatory of previous sentence. Or, may = before the LORD, by Figure of speech *Metonymy* ( App-6 .)
**vail.** Type of the perfect humanity of Christ. No avail for purposes of atonement without blood. We are saved by His death, not by His life ([Ephesians 2:13](../../../kjv/ephesians/2/13) ).

**before.** A various reading called *Sevir* has "which is before". See App-34 .
**all** = all the remaining blood.

**fat** = the best or choicest part, [Leviticus 3:3](../../../kjv/leviticus/3/3) .

**caul,** or the network.

**As** = according as.
**burn.** Hebrew. *saraph.* See App-43 ; and note that it is not the word used for burning incense, which is *katar.* App-43 .

**he carry forth** = cause to be carried. Compare [Leviticus 4:14](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/14) .
**without the camp.** Compare [Hebrews 13:11](../../../kjv/hebrews/13/11) , [Hebrews 13:12](../../../kjv/hebrews/13/12) . See note on [Exodus 29:14](../../../kjv/exodus/29/14) .
**wood** = logs. Any wood allowed, such as straw or stubble. Not so with the other offerings.

**congregation** = assembly. Not the same word as in [Leviticus 4:14](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/14) .
**sin.** Hebrew. *shagah.* See App-44 . See [1 Samuel 14:32](../../../kjv/1-samuel/14/32) .
**somewhat, &c, and concerning, &c.** These two *Ellipses* rightly supplied. See App-6 .

**sin . . . sinned.** Hebrew. *chat'a.* App-44 .
**offer** = cause to be offered. Compare ' [Leviticus 4:12](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/12) .
**for the sin** = as a sin offering. See App-43 .

**it.** Read "the blood", with Samaritan Pentateuch, as in [Leviticus 4:6](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/6) .
**before the vail.** See note on [Leviticus 4:6](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/6) .

**door** = entrance.

**burn.** Hebrew. *katar,* to burn as incense, not as in [Leviticus 4:12](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/12) . See App-43 .

**as** = according as.
**make an atonement.** See note on [Leviticus 1:4](../../../kjv/leviticus/1/4) and [Exodus 29:33](../../../kjv/exodus/29/33) .

**as he burned** = according as he burned. Hebrew. *saraph,* as in [Leviticus 4:12](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/12) . See App-43 .

**ruler.** Hebrew word is used of a king ([1 Kings 11:34](../../../kjv/1-kings/11/34) .[Ezekiel 34:24](../../../kjv/ezekiel/34/24) ; [Ezekiel 46:2](../../../kjv/ezekiel/46/2) ), the head of a tribe ([Numbers 1:16](../../../kjv/numbers/1/16) , [Numbers 1:46](../../../kjv/numbers/1/46) ; [Numbers 34:18](../../../kjv/numbers/34/18) ), but as the words "his God" are used here, and are absent (in verses: [Leviticus 4:2](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/2) , [Leviticus 4:13](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/13) , [Leviticus 4:27](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/27) ), it denotes one whom God appoints and to whom the ruler is responsible.
**sinned.** Hebrew. *chat'a.* See App-44 .
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .
**guilty** = should become aware of his inadvertences.

**sin.** Hebrew. *chat'a.* App-44 .
**male:** for ruler, female for one of the people, [Leviticus 4:28](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/28) . Compare [Leviticus 5:13](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/13) .

**one** = soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* See App-13 .
**be guilty** = acknowledges his guilt, as in [Leviticus 4:22](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/22) .

**female** for one of the People, male for "ruler", [Leviticus 4:22](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/22) . Compare [Leviticus 5:13](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/13) .

**in the place:** i.e. where the burnt offering is wont to be slain.

**sweet savour.** This is added here because of the burning of the fat. It is not said of the sin offering of the high priest, the ruler, or the congregation (compare verses: [Leviticus 4:10](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/10) , [Leviticus 4:19](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/19) , [Leviticus 4:26](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/26) ), though used in the burnt offerings ([Leviticus 1:9](../../../kjv/leviticus/1/9) , [Leviticus 1:13](../../../kjv/leviticus/1/13) ), and peace offerings ([Leviticus 3:5](../../../kjv/leviticus/3/5) , [Leviticus 3:16](../../../kjv/leviticus/3/16) ). The sweet savour here, in this connection, exalts the offering of the humblest person.

**a lamb** = a sheep, Compare [Leviticus 3:7](../../../kjv/leviticus/3/7) . Ritual same as the goat, but treated separately because of the fat tail.
**offering.** Hebrew. *korban.* App-43 . Literally "an offering for his sin [offering]".

**of the blood of the sin offering.** A reading of the Severus Codex is "from its blood", as in [Leviticus 4:30](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/30) .

**Sacrifice.** Hebrew. *zebach.* App-43 .
**according to** = upon.
**offerings made by fire.** Hebrew. *ishsheh.* App-43 .

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