The Laymen's Sin Offering. The victim is here either a goat or a lamb the offerer could apparently choose which, and in each case a female. In other points the ritual is the same. For common people RVm is better. The phrase is used in the histories for the people as a whole or the popular party in opposition to the court. In Ezra it denotes the semi-heathen population surviving after the return from exile. Cf. John 7:49.

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