And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
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Gill's Exposition
Or if his sin which he hath sinned come to his knowledge,.... So that he is convinced that he has sinned:
then he shall bring his offering; to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to the…
Barnes' Notes
The common people - literally, as in the margin, “the people of the land.” Compare Lev 20:2, Lev 20:4; 2Ki 11:18. It was the ordinary designation of the people, as distinguished from the priests and…
Adam Clarke
The common people - עם הארץ am haarets, the people of the land, that is, any individual who was not a priest, king, or ruler among the people; any of the poor or ordinary sort. Any of these, having…
I. Here is the law of the sin-offering for a common person, which differs from that for a ruler only in this, that a private person might bring either a kid or a lamb, a ruler only a kid; and that for…
The Sin-Offering for one of the common people(Heb. -people of the land"), a she-goat or a lamb
The she-goat (Lev 4:4), according to Num 15:27, was to be of the first year. The lamb (Lev 4:4) was also…
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