The priest must offer the like sacrifice for cleansing the errors of the people, and reconciling them.
The seventh day; about a week before the passover.
For every one that erreth; for all the errors of all the house of Israel, in all that had erred through ignorance.
For him that is simple; that is, of weak intellectuals, half-witted, or a fool, as the word signifies; or, for one that was seduced.
Reconcile the house, i.e. cleanse, as Eze_45:18, which legally or ceremonially was defiled by those errors done in the city or courts of the house, whither these persons might come, for it is not the temple itself, I suppose, that is here meant.