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That he must bring a bullock without blemish for a sin-offering (Le 4:3), as valuable an offering as that for the whole congregation (Le 4:14); whereas for any other ruler, or a common person, a kid of the goats should serve, Le 4:23,28. This intimated the greatness of the guilt connected with the sin of a high priest. The eminency of his station, and his relation both to God and to the people, greatly aggravated his offences; see Ro 2:21.
4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation before the Lord; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock’s head, and kill the bullock before the Lord.
The hand of the offerer must be laid upon the head of the offering (Le 4:4), with a solemn penitent confession of the sin he had committed, putting it upon the head of the sin-offering, Le 16:21. No remission without confession, Ps 32:5,Pr 28:13. It signified also a confidence in this instituted way of expiating guilt, as a figure of something better yet to come, which they could not stedfastly discern. He that laid his hand on the head of the beast thereby owned that he deserved to die himself, and that it was God's great mercy that he would please to accept the offering of this beast to die for him. The Jewish writers themselves say that neither the sin-offering nor the trespass-offering made atonement, except for those that repented and believed in their atonement.
5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock’s blood, and
bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:
6 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the
blood seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.
The bullock must be killed, and a great deal of solemnity there must be in disposing of the blood; for it was the blood that made atonement, and without shedding of blood there was no remission, Le 4:5-7. Some of the blood of the high-priest's sin-offering was to be sprinkled seven times before the veil, with an eye towards the mercy-seat, though it was veiled: some of it was to be put upon the horns of the golden