OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 5:17

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17

“If anyone sins, doing any of the things which the LORD has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

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Verse 17. Through ignorance. These words are not found in the Hebrew or Sept.; but the context shews, that they must be understood. Some pretend that the ignorance here spoken of, is that by which a person doubts whether the thing which he touched was unclean or not. But we may explain these last verses as a recapitulation of what had been already ordered. Calmet.

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