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He shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull: it is the sin-offering for the assembly.
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The Seriousness of Corporate Sin
Commentators note that the ritual for the assembly's sin offering is identical to the one for the high priest. This parallel highlights the immense gravity of corporate sin; when the community as a whole goes astray, it is as serious in God's eyes as the failure of its highest spiritual leader.
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Leviticus
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19th Century
Anglican
The rest of the regulations are exactly the same as those prescribed in the sin offering for the high priest himself in Leviticus 4:5-12.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on Leviticus 4:16).
Presbyterian
If the leaders of the people, through mistake, caused them to err, an offering must be brought, so that wrath would not come upon the whole congreg…
