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because I did it ignorantly and in unbelief. And it looked favourable upon the Gentiles that this law of atoning for sins of ignorance is expressly made to extend to those who were strangers to the commonwealth of Israel (Nu 15:29), but supposed to be proselytes of righteousness. Thus the blessing of Abraham comes upon the Gentiles.
23 even all that the Lord hath commanded you by the hand of Moses,
from the day that the Lord commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;
24 then it shall be, if aught be committed by ignorance without the
knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor unto the Lord, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of
the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their ignorance:
26 and it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel,
and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
27 And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she
goat of the first year for a sin offering.
28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth
ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the Lord, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
29 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both
for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
30 But the soul that doeth aught presumptuously, whether he be born in
the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
I The general doom passed upon presumptuous sinners.
1. Those are to be reckoned presumptuous sinners that sin with a high hand, as the original phrase is (Nu 15:30), that is,