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Leviticus 4 — Sermon Preparation
Purification offerings are prescribed for unintentional sins by the priest, the whole congregation, a leader, and an ordinary person — each with different animals and rites. Below is a research summary for Leviticus 4, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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Leviticus 4 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| חַטָּאָה | chaṭṭâʼâh | H2403 | 20 | offence, penalty |
| פַּר | par | H6499 | 17 | bullock, breaking |
| דָּם | dâm | H1818 | 15 | blood, juice |
| מִזְבֵּחַ | mizbêach | H4196 | 15 | altar |
| כֹּהֵן | kôhên | H3548 | 16 | officiating, priest |
| חֶלֶב | cheleb | H2459 | 11 | fat, richest |
| חָטָא | châṭâʼ | H2398 | 10 | miss, sin |
How preachers through history handled this text
10 public-domain excerpts on Leviticus 4, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Burnt-offerings, meat-offerings, and peace-offerings, had been offered before the giving of the law upon mount Sinai; and in these the patriarchs had respect to sin, to make atonement for it. But the Jews were now put into a way of making atonement for sin, more particularly by sacrifice, as a shadow of good things to come; yet the substance is Christ, and that one offering of himself, by which he put away sin. The sins for which the sin-offerings were appointed are supposed to be open acts. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Leviticus 4:1–12 (Public Domain)
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