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Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 15:22

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Numbers15:22

22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses;

To wit, those now spoken of, those which concern the outward worship and service of God, or the rites or ceremonies belonging to it. And herein principally this law may seem to differ from that Lev. 4. 13. which speaks of some positive miscarriage or doing that which ought not to have been done about the holy things of God, whereas this speaks onely of an omission of something which ought to have been done about holy ceremonies. But besides this, that law Levit. 4. 13. concerns the whole congregation of Israel as it is there expressed, but this concerns onely the congregation, or a congregation, as it is here expressed ver. 24. i. e. any particular congregation of Israelites, whether of a whole tribe meeting together by their representatives, or a lesser congregation, such as there were to be many in Canaan, and the words rendred, all the congregation, may be, and are by some here, rendred, every congregation. And by vertue of this law, as some suppose, the Israelites newly after their return from the captivity offered 12 bullocks, one for each tribe, Ezra 8. 35.

Marginal references: Lev. 4. 2.

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