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if the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without blemish to Yahweh for a sin-offering.
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Leaders Are Fallible
Commentators unanimously identify the 'anointed priest' as the high priest. They stress that this law reveals even the highest spiritual leader on earth was a fallible human who could sin. This imperfection in the Levitical priesthood, as scholars like Ellicott and Gill note, highlights the necessity of Jesus, our perfect and sinless High Priest who had no need to offer sacrifices for His own sin (Hebrews 7:27–28).
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The priest that is anointed – that is, the high priest. (Leviticus 21:10; Exodus 29:7). On the anointing of the othe…
19th Century
Anglican
The priest that is anointed. — To illustrate this law, the conduct of the high priest is cited as the first instance, to show when…
16th Century
Protestant
If the priest that is anointed. He now distinguishes between different persons and begins with the high priest, who alone bore the high di…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If the priest that is anointed do sin That is, the high priest, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and the Sept…
Burnt offerings, meat offerings, and peace offerings had been offered before the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai; and in these, the patriarchs add…
