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Numbers 15:25 Explained in Context
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Verse 25. 25And 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:
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Role in This Section
Numbers 15:25 within “Unintentional Communal Failure Receives Atonement,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: 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 to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance.
Read It With
- Numbers 15:22–26
Read Numbers 15:25 with 15:22–26. It within “Unintentional Communal Failure Receives Atonement,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: 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 to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: If the whole congregation unintentionally fails to observe commands, the assembly brings a bull and goat with accompanying offerings, and priestly atonement brings forgiveness to Israelites and resident outsiders because the error involved all.
Why It Needs Context
Numbers 15:25 within “Unintentional Communal Failure Receives Atonement,” adds this material detail to the unit's ordered remembrance; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: 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 to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance. Its responsible force depends on 15:22–26; isolated from “Unintentional Communal Failure Receives Atonement,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 15:22–26 — Unintentional Communal Failure Receives AtonementSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 15:22–26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 15:22–26
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