Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Numbers 15:25
It shall be forgiven, for it is ignorance Proceeding from some mistake, and not from contempt of God and his laws; for then the guilty person was to be utterly cut off.
It shall be forgiven, for it is ignorance Proceeding from some mistake, and not from contempt of God and his laws; for then the guilty person was to be utterly cut off.
Verse Numbers 15:25. _THE PRIEST SHALL MAKE AN ATONEMENT_] Even sins committed through ignorance required an atonement; and God in his mercy has provided one for them....
The heavy punishments which had already overtaken the people might naturally give rise to apprehensions for the future, especially in view of the fact that on the approaching entrance into Canaan the...
5. VARIOUS LAWS, THE SABBATH-BREAKER, AND THE TASSELS ON THE GARMENTS CHAPTER 15 _ 1. Concerning offerings in the land (Numbers 15:1)_ 2. The second communication concerning offerings (Numbers 15:1...
NUMBERS 15. A NUMBER OF DETACHED REGULATIONS (from P). NUMBERS 15:1. THE QUANTITIES OF FLOUR, OIL, AND WINE APPROPRIATE TO VARIOUS SACRIFICES. The practice of adding such accompaniments to flesh-offe...
ATONEMENT. See note on Exodus 29:33. SACRIFICE MADE BY FIRE. Hebrew. _'ishsheh._ App-43....
_Errors of the whole congregation_. No detailed instances are given; but such errors might consist in some mistake or omission in ritual, or some miscarriage of justice discovered too late; or the err...
_Propitiation for inadvertent transgressions_(_a_) Numbers 15:22 committed by the congregation as a whole; (_b_) Numbers 15:27 by individuals. To these is added the provision that deliberate transgres...
Part Three: The Years of Wandering (Numbers 15; Numbers 16; Numbers 17; Numbers 18; Numbers 19;...
_THEN IT SHALL BE, IF OUGHT BE COMMITTED BY IGNORANCE WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONGREGATION, THAT ALL THE CONGREGATION SHALL OFFER ONE YOUNG BULLOCK FOR A BURNT OFFERING, FOR A SWEET SAVOUR UNTO T...
LAWS REGARDING VARIOUS OFFERINGS 1-16. Meal and Drink Offerings. The offerings here referred to are those presented along with other sacrifices (see on the Meal Offering, Leviticus 2), and an enactmen...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 15 LAWS ABOUT *SACRIFICES – NUMBERS 15:1-29 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses. V2 He told Moses to give th
FOR IT IS IGNORANCE. — Rather, _for it is a_ sin_ of ignorance,_ or _an error._ So also at the end of the verse....
וְ כִפֶּ֣ר הַ כֹּהֵ֗ן עַֽל ־כָּל ־עֲדַ֛ת
OFFERINGS: SABBATH-KEEPING: DRESS Numbers 15:1 THE enactments of this chapter regarding meal offerings and drink offerings, the heave offerings of the first dough, and the atonement for unwitting err...
Once more we have the repetition and enforcement of certain laws already given. Occurring here, this appears somewhat strange. The explanation, I think, is to be found in the opening declaration, "Whe...
_And for. Hebrew, "and their sin (offering) in the presence of the Lord, for their ignorance." (Calmet)_...
Reader! I charge it upon your conscience as I pray for grace, to keep it always alive upon my own, that as every sacrifice under the law referred to that one glorious sacrifice of JESUS, so we see her...
The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise. It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...
After all this unbelief of the people, when God had declared that the earth should be filled with His glory, by the cutting off of the rebellious congregation, and when one might have supposed they ha...
AND THE PRIEST SHALL MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR ALL THE CONGREGATION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL;.... By offering a sin offering for them, a type of Christ, the propitiation not only for the sins of the peop...
1 The law of the meat offering and the drinke offring. 13.29 The stranger is vnder the same law. 17 The law of the first of the dough for a heaue offering. 22 The sacrifice for sinne of ignorance....
ORDINANCES CONCERNING VARIOUS OFFERINGS...
And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, their relationship to God would be restored through the sacrifice; FOR IT IS I...
OFFERINGS WHEN IN THE LAND (vs.1-21) In this chapter the abrupt change from the subject of Chapter 14 may seem strange to us. However, God is infinitely wise and infinitely good. Chapter 14 has shown...
22-29 Though ignorance will in a degree excuse, it will not justify those who might have known their Lord's will, yet did it not. David prayed to be cleansed from his secret faults, those sins which...
No text from Poole on this verse....
The words with which our chapter opens are peculiarly striking, when taken in connection with the contents of chapter 14. There all seemed dark and hopeless. Moses had to say to the people, "_Go not u...
Numbers 15:25 priest H3548 atonement H3722 (H8765) congregation H5712 children H1121 Israel H3478 forgiven H5545 (H873
II) THE CONTRIBUTION OR HEAVE-OFFERING AND DEALING WITH UNWITTING SIN (NUMBERS 15:17). The stress continues to be on the fruit of the ground. Hope for the future was being piled up for the younger gen...
ATONEMENT (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 29:33). _...
CONTENTS: Burnt and free will offerings. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, man who broke Sabbath. CONCLUSION: Sins committed ignorantly must have atonement made for them, for although God is very merciful wit...
Numbers 15:30. _The soul that doeth ought presumptuously,_ literally, with a high hand, _reproacheth the Lord shall be cut off;_ or die, as Deuteronomy 17:12. But in Leviticus 6., atonement was prescr...
_Sin-offering. .. for their ignorance._ PARDON OF UNKNOWN SINS THROUGH CHRIST 1. Because of our ignorance we are not fully aware of our sins of ignorance. Yet they are many, in the form both of comm...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 15:1__ At each place where Israel encamped for a long time, laws were given: at Sinai (Exodus 20:1–
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 15:22 Sins that are unintentional or that are done in ignorance may be atoned for by a sin offering (compare Leviticus 4:1)....
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES In this and the next four Chapter s we have a narrative of certain occurrences and enactments during the penal wandering in the desert, which lasted for nearly thirty-ei...
EXPOSITION VARIOUS LAWS OF SACRIFICE (Numbers 15:1). NUMBERS 15:1 THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES. IT must have been during the years of wandering, but within those limits it is impossible even to
Now, in chapter fifteen, The LORD spoke unto Moses saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and When you come into the land (Numbers 15:1-2), Now this is interesting, right after their failure to ent...
1 John 2:2; Acts 13:39; Leviticus 4:20; Leviticus 4:26; Luke 23:34;...