This law concerning sins of ignorance, being entirely diverse
   from one before considered, occasions considerable difficulty.
   (Le ch. 4.)  Some explain that law as relating to sins of
   commission, this to sins of omission:  others explain the one
   of inadvertent violations of the moral law, and the other of
   the transgressions of the ceremonial law:  and some think that
   related to the whole nation, this to any one tribe; or that to
   the bulk of the nation, this to the rulers and elders.  The
   Jews say, that the former law referred to such national
   transgressions through heedlessness, as consisted with the
   maintenance of the prescribed worship in the main; but that
   this especially respected the case of the nation, when through
   inattention, and the example and authority of wicked rulers,
   they had turned aside and committed idolatry, or conducted
   their worship directly contrary to law; yet through a culpable
   ignorance, and not in presumption.  This was evidently the
   case under several of their kings; and the explanation seems
   well grounded.

  Le 4:2,13,14,22,27  5:13,15-17  Ps 19:12  Lu 12:48