Leviticus 4:13,14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The whole congregation The body of the people, or the greater part of them, their rulers concurring with them. A bullock But if the sin of the congregation was only the omission of some ceremonial duty, a kid of the goats was to be offered, Numbers 15:24.

Leviticus 4:13-14

13 And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;

14 When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.