Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
If a soul shall sin through ignorance - a soul-an individual. All sins may be considered, in a certain sense, as committed "through ignorance," error, or misapprehension of one's true interests. The sins, however, referred to in this law were unintentional violations of the ceremonial laws, breaches made through haste, or inadvertency of some negative precepts, which, if done knowingly and willfully, would have involved a capital punishment.
Do against any of them. To bring out the meaning, it is necessary to supply, 'he shall bring a sin offering.' Such sins of ignorance must have been of rare, or at least, of only occasional occurrence. х ChaTaa't (H2403)] "sin offering" is distinguished from х 'aashaam (H817)] trespass offering in the statutes which describe the occasion and particularize, in minute details, the formalities with which they were to be respectively presented. (See the notes at Leviticus 7:1-10: cf. Leviticus 14:12; Leviticus 14:19; Numbers 6:12; Numbers 6:14.)