Numbers 15:26
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.
Numbers 15:26 in other translations
| BSB | Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally. |
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| WEB | All the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, as well as the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for with regard to all the people, it was done unwittingly. |
| ASV | and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly. |
| YLT | and it hath been forgiven to all the company of the sons of Israel, and to the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst; for to all the company it is done in ignorance. |
| DARBY | and it shall be forgiven the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; for with all the people there was a sin of inadvertence. |
| BBE | And all the meeting of the children of Israel, as well as those from other lands living among them, will have forgiveness; for it was an error on the part of the people. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Numbers 15:26 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 15:24-26
24-26. if aught be committed by ignorance--The Mosaic ritual was complicated, and the ceremonies to be gone through in the various instances of purification which are specified, would expose a worshipper, through ignorance, to the risk of omitting or neglecting some of them. This law includes the stranger in the number of those for whom the sacrifice was offered for the sin of general ignorance.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 15:22-29
Though ignorance will in a degree excuse, it will not justify those who might have known their Lord's will, yet did it not. David prayed to be cleansed from his secret faults, those sins which he himself was not aware of. Sins committed ignorantly, shall be forgiven through Christ the great Sacrifice, who, when he offered up himself once for all upon the cross, seemed to explain one part of the intention of his…
Numbers 15:26 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 15:26
- Numbers 15:24
Then it shall be, if ought 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 savour 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.
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Context
- Numbers 15:25
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:
- Numbers 15:26
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.
- Numbers 15:27
And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
Numbers 15:26 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y será perdonado á toda la congregación de los hijos de Israel, y al extranjero que peregrina entre ellos, por cuanto es yerro de todo el pueblo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il sera pardonné à toute l’assemblée des fils d’Israël et à l’étranger qui séjourne parmi eux, car cela est arrivé à tout le peuple par erreur. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und es wird der ganzen Gemeinde der Kinder Israel vergeben werden und dem Fremdling, der in ihrer Mitte weilt; denn von dem ganzen Volke ist es geschehen aus Versehen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et dimittetur universæ plebi filiorum Israël, et advenis qui peregrinantur inter eos: quoniam culpa est omnis populi per ignorantiam. |