41 Then the Lord spoke to Moses , saying , 2 "Speak to the sons of Israel , saying , 'If a person sins unintentionally in any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done , and commits any of them, 3 if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people , then let him offer to the Lord a bull e e without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed . 4 'He shall bring the bull to the doorway of the tent of meeting before the Lord , and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull and slay the bull before the Lord . 5 'Then the anointed priest is to take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of meeting , 6 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the Lord , in front of the veil of the sanctuary . 7 'The priest shall also put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense which is before the Lord in the tent of meeting ; and all the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the doorway of the tent of meeting . 8 ' He shall remove from it all the fat of the bull of the sin offering : the fat that covers the entrails , and all the fat which is on the entrails , 9 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins , and the lobe of the liver , which he shall remove with the kidneys 10 (just as it is removed from the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings ), and the priest is to offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering . 11 'But the hide of the bull and all its flesh with its head and its legs and its entrails and its refuse , 12 that is, all the rest of the bull , he is to bring out to a clean place outside e the camp where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire ; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 4:1-12
Commentary on Leviticus 4:1-12
(Read Leviticus 4:1-12)
Burnt-offerings, meat-offerings, and peace-offerings, had been offered before the giving of the law upon mount Sinai; and in these the patriarchs had respect to sin, to make atonement for it. But the Jews were now put into a way of making atonement for sin, more particularly by sacrifice, as a shadow of good things to come; yet the substance is Christ, and that one offering of himself, by which he put away sin. The sins for which the sin-offerings were appointed are supposed to be open acts. They are supposed to be sins of commission, things which ought not to have been done. Omissions are sins, and must come into judgment: yet what had been omitted at one time, might be done at another; but a sin committed was past recall. They are supposed to be sins committed through ignorance. The law begins with the case of the anointed priest. It is evident that God never had any infallible priest in his church upon earth, when even the high priest was liable to fall into sins of ignorance. All pretensions to act without error are sure marks of Antichrist. The beast was to be carried without the camp, and there burned to ashes. This was a sign of the duty of repentance, which is the putting away sin as a detestable thing, which our soul hates. The sin-offering is called sin. What they did to that, we must do to our sins; the body of sin must be destroyed, Hebrews 13:11-13.