The character of the sin for which the sin-offering was presented is expressed by the words, repeated again and again, “through ignorance,” or “unwittingly,” or “through error.” It is the word used of the unintentional man-slayer, who, without premeditation, might kill another. See Num. 35. God’s Word distinguishes deliberate, wilful sin from that of which it may be said, “they know not what they do”; or, “I wot that through ignorance ye did it.” See Luke 23:34; Acts 3:17. Whilst the blood of the offering for the priest and the congregation was brought into the holy place and sprinkled seven times before the Lord, the blood of the offerings for the ruler or the individual was sprinkled only on the horns of the altar. The hue of the sin was not so dark in the latter case as where there was greater knowledge of God’s will. In Luke 12:47, 48, our Lord.sakes a similar distinction.