The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh.
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The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh.
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And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.
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And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD; and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.
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- Leviticus 1:4 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
- Exodus 24:1 He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.
- Exodus 24:9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
- Leviticus 4:4 He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 8:14 He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.
- Leviticus 8:22 He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.
- Leviticus 16:21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is ready.
- Numbers 8:10 You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,
- Numbers 11:16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.
- Numbers 11:25 Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
- Deuteronomy 21:3-9 It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke. The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley. The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided. All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them. So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, the Priest.
Or, the Priest.
For all the people could not lay on their hands: therefore it was sufficient that the Ancients of the people did it in the name of all the Congregation.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 4:15 And the elders of the congregation shall…
Lev 4:15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.
Ver. 15. And the elders.] These, as the representative congregation, took upon them the guilt of their common errors, as those did in 2Ch 29:23.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The elders of the congregation, i.e. the rulers of…
The elders of the congregation, i.e. the rulers of the people, of whom see Exo 3:16; 24:1, who here acted in the name of all the people, who could not possibly perform this act in their own persons.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the priest that is anointed shall bring of…
And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood,.... That is, the chief priest, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan explain it:
to the tabernacle of the congregation; as he brought the blood of his own bullock, Lev 4:5 from hence to the Lev 4:16 an account is given of the same rites to be observed in the sin offering, for the congregation, as for the anointed priest; See Gill on Lev 4:6, Lev 4:7, Lev 4:12.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The elders - Who here acted in the name…
The elders - Who here acted in the name of all the people, who could not possibly perform this act in their own persons.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 4:15. The elders — Who here acted in…
Lev 4:15. The elders — Who here acted in the name of all the people, who could not possibly perform this act in their own persons.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain In this case the imposition of hands is performed…
In this case the imposition of hands is performed by the elders in behalf of the nation. But in other respects the rites were performed by the high priest in the same manner as in the sin-offering for himself.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. the elders] This expression, common in JE and…
15. the elders] This expression, common in JE and Deut., occurs in P here and in Lev_9:1, Jos_20:4 only.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) And the elders of the congregation shall lay…
(15) And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands.—As the whole congregation could not lay their hands on the victim, their representatives had to perform this act. (See Lev_4:4.) But as the elders also were far too many to do it, since they were seventy in number, it was ordained during the second Temple that three of their members should lay their hands upon the sacrifice. Besides this sin offering there was only one other congregational offering upon which there was this laying of hands: i.e., the scape-goat (Lev_16:21).
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 4:15 The Hebrew term for elders is related to…
4:15 The Hebrew term for elders is related to the word for beard. It implies mature but not necessarily elderly individuals. They were leaders of the community—typically, heads of families and tribes (cp. Exod 18:21-26; Deut 22:15-19). For this offering, the elders represented the entire people, as they would later in anointing David as king (2 Sam 5:3).
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