Levítico 1:4

Sagradas Escrituras

Y pondrá su mano sobre la cabeza del holocausto; y él lo aceptará para expiarle.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
"Pondrá su mano sobre la cabeza del holocausto, y le será aceptado para hacer expiación por él.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Y pondr� su mano sobre la cabeza del holocausto; y �l lo aceptar� para expiarle.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y pondr� su mano sobre la cabeza del holocausto; y �l lo aceptar� para expiarle.

Bible Verse Review
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put: Leviticus 3:2, Leviticus 3:8, Leviticus 3:13, Leviticus 4:4, Leviticus 4:15, Leviticus 4:24, Leviticus 4:29, Leviticus 8:14, Leviticus 8:22, Leviticus 16:21, Exodus 29:10, Exodus 29:15, Exodus 29:19, Numbers 8:12, Isaiah 53:4-6, 2 Corinthians 5:20, 2 Corinthians 5:21

be accepted: Leviticus 22:21, Leviticus 22:27, Isaiah 56:7, Romans 12:1, Philippians 4:18

atonement: Leviticus 4:20, Leviticus 4:26, Leviticus 4:31, Leviticus 4:35, Leviticus 5:6, Leviticus 6:7, Leviticus 9:7, Leviticus 16:24, Numbers 15:25, Numbers 15:28, Numbers 25:13, 2 Chronicles 29:23, 2 Chronicles 29:24, Daniel 9:24, Romans 3:25, Romans 5:11, Hebrews 10:4, 1 John 2:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:38 - accepted Exodus 29:11 - And Leviticus 5:18 - and the priest Leviticus 8:18 - General Leviticus 9:8 - General Leviticus 12:7 - make Numbers 8:10 - General 2 Samuel 21:3 - wherewith Ezekiel 45:15 - to make

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering,.... According to the Targum of Jonathan, it was his right hand; but it is generally thought by the Jewish writers that both hands were laid on; so Ben Gersom and Aben Ezra, with whom Maimonides e agrees, who says, he that lays on hands ought to lay on with all his strength, with both his hands upon the head of the beast, as it is said, "upon the head of the burnt offering": not upon the neck, nor upon the sides; and there should be nothing between his hands and the beast: and as the same writer says f, it must be his own hand, and not the hand of his wife, nor the hand of his servant, nor his messenger; and who also observes g, that at the same time he made confession over the burnt offering both of his sins committed against affirmative and negative precepts: and indeed by this action he owned that he had sinned, and deserved to die as that creature he brought was about to do, and that he expected pardon of his sin through the death of the great sacrifice that was a type of. Moreover, this action signified the transferring of his sins from himself to this sacrifice, which was to be offered up to make atonement for them; so Gersom observes; see Leviticus 16:21. This denotes the translation of our sins from us, and the imputation of them to Christ, who was offered up in our room and stead, to make atonement for them, as follows:

and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him: that is, the burnt offering should be accepted in his room and stead, and hereby an atonement of his sins should be made for him, typical of that true, real, and full atonement made by the sacrifice of Christ, which this led his faith unto.

e Hilchot Maaseh Hakorbanot, c. 3. sect. 13. f Hilchot Maaseh Hakorbanot, c. 3. sect. 8. Vid. T. Bab. Menachot, fol. 93. 2. g Ib. sect. 14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering - The usual ceremony. By it the sacrificer identified himself with his victim Leviticus 3:2, Leviticus 3:8; Leviticus 4:15; Leviticus 8:14; Romans 12:1.

To make atonement for him - This phrase belongs more especially to the sin-offerings and the trespass-offerings (compare Leviticus 4:20, Leviticus 4:26, Leviticus 4:31, Leviticus 4:35; Leviticus 5:16, Leviticus 5:18; Leviticus 6:7, etc.) It is not used in reference to the peace-offerings, and but rarely in reference to the burnt-offerings. It should be noticed that it is here introduced in close connection with the imposition of hands by the worshipper, not, as it is when it refers to the sin-offering, with the special functions of the priest, Leviticus 4:26, Lev 4:35; 2 Chronicles 29:23.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 1:4. He shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering — By the imposition of hands the person bringing the victim acknowledged,

1. The sacrifice as his own.

2. That he offered it as an atonement for his sins.

3. That he was worthy of death because he had sinned, having forfeited his life by breaking the law.

4. That he entreated God to accept the life of the innocent animal in place of his own.

5. And all this, to be done profitably, must have respect to HIM whose life, in the fulness of time, should be made a sacrifice for sin.

6. The blood was to be sprinkled round about upon the altar, Leviticus 1:5, as by the sprinkling of blood the atonement was made; for the blood was the life of the beast, and it was always supposed that life went to redeem life. Exodus 29:10.

On the required perfection of the sacrifice Exodus 12:5.

It has been sufficiently remarked by learned men that almost all the people of the earth had their burnt-offerings, on which also they placed the greatest dependence. It was a general maxim through the heathen world, that there was no other way to appease the incensed gods; and they sometimes even offered human sacrifices, from the supposition, as Caesar expresses it, that life was necessary to redeem life, and that the gods would be satisfied with nothing less. "Quod pro vita hominis nisi vita hominis redditur, non posse aliter deorum immortalium numen placari arbitrantur." - Com. de Bell. Gal., lib. vi. But this was not the case only with the Gauls, for we see, by Ovid, Fast., lib. vi., that it was a commonly received maxim among more polished people: -

"--------Pro parvo victima parva cadit.

Cor pro corde, precor, pro fibris sumite fibras.

Hanc animam vobis pro meliore damus."

See the whole of this passage in the above work, from ver. 135 to 163.