Numbers 15:27

If a person sins unintentionally, then he must offer a female goat a year old as a sin offering.

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And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.

In Context

26Then all the community of the people of Israel will be forgiven, and also the foreigners who are staying with them, because all the people committed the sin unintentionally.

28The priest must make atonement before Yahweh for the person who sins unintentionally. That person will be forgiven when atonement has been made.

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Cross References

Leviticus 4:27If anyone of the common people sins without intending to sin, doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded him not to be done, and when he realizes his guilt,

Acts 17:30Therefore God overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 15:23-30

Sacrifices for Sins of Ignorance. ( b. c. 1490.) 22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the Lord hath spoken unto Moses, 23 Even all that the Lord hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations; 24 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 the Lord ,… Read the whole commentary →

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