SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:2
Habla a los hijos de Israel, diciendo: Cuando alguna persona pecare por yerro en alguno de los mandamientos del SEÑOR sobre cosas que no se han de hacer, e hiciere alguna de ellas;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 4:2
Verse 2. If a soul shall sin through ignorance] That is, if any man shall do what God has forbidden, or leave undone what God has commanded, through ignorance of the law relative to these points; as soon as the transgression or omission comes to his knowledge, he shall offer the sacrifice here prescribed, and shall not suppose that his ignorance is an excuse for his sin. He who, when his iniquity comes to his knowledge, refuses to offer such a sacrifice, sins obstinately and wilfully, and to him there remains no other sacrifice for sin - no other mode by which he can be reconciled to God, but he has a certain fearful looking for of judgment - which shall devour such adversaries; and this seems the case to which the apostle alludes, Heb. x. 26, &c., in the words above quoted. There have been a great number of subtle questions started on this subject, both by Jews and Christians, but the above I believe to be the sense and spirit of the law.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. Speak unto the children of Israel, [saying] , etc.] For this law concerning the sin offering, as the rest, only belonged to them, and such as were proselyted to them: if a soul should sin through ignorance ; sin is from the soul, though committed by the body; it is the soul that sins, ( Ezekiel 18:4) it includes, as Aben Ezra observes, both Israelites and proselytes; who sinned through ignorance either of the law, that such things were forbidden, or of having committed them, they being done unobserved, and through inadvertency; or were forgotten that they were done, or were done through error and mistake; these sins are what the apostle calls the errors of the people, their strayings out of the way through ignorance and inadvertency, ( Hebrews 5:2 9:7) such sins as a man is overtaken with unawares, and is drawn into at once through temptation and the prevalence of corruption; these are the errors and secret faults which David distinguishes from presumptuous sins, ( Psalm 19:12,13): against any of the commandments of the Lord ([concerning things] which ought not to be done .) The Jewish writers distinguish the commandments of the Lord into affirmative and negative, and make their number to be six hundred and thirteen; two hundred and forty eight are affirmative, according to the number of bones in a man’s body, and three hundred sixty five are negative ones, according to the number of the days of the year; and they observe f84 , it is only the transgression of negative precepts that is here meant, and for which a sin offering was to be brought: and shall do against any of them ; it must be something done, and not merely said: hence the Jews say, that as the neglect of circumcision, and of the passover, does not come under this law, because they are affirmative precepts; so neither blasphemy, because there is nothing done, only something said: of these sins of ignorance, they give instances as follows; if any man eats the fat that is about the kidneys, thinking it is the fat that is about the heart; or that lies with a woman forbidden by the law, thinking her to be his wife; or that commits idolatry, by bowing to the idol, thinking that the law forbids sacrifice, incense, and libation, but not bowing; or that profanes the sabbath, thinking it is a common day f86 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-12 - Burnt-offerings, meat-offerings, and peace-offerings, had been offere 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 Jew were now put into a way of making atonement for sin, more particularl by sacrifice, as a shadow of good things to come; yet the substance in 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 ope acts. They are supposed to be sins of commission, things which ough 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 sin committed was past recall. They are supposed to be sins committe through ignorance. The law begins with the case of the anointed priest It is evident that God never had any infallible priest in his churc 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 ther 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 ou sins; the body of sin must be destroyed, Ro 6:6. The apostle applie the carrying this sacrifice without the camp to Christ, Heb 13:11-13.
Original Hebrew
דבר 1696 אל 413 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 לאמר 559 נפשׁ 5315 כי 3588 תחטא 2398 בשׁגגה 7684 מכל 3605 מצות 4687 יהוה 3068 אשׁר 834 לא 3808 תעשׂינה 6213 ועשׂה 6213 מאחת 259 מהנה׃ 2007
