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The goat of the sin-offering, to wit, for the people, mentioned Lev_9:15, to know what was done with that part of it which was the priest’s; which he inquired into more than into the other sacrifices, because a mistake there was easy and probable, because that matter might seem something doubtful, by reason of two laws concerning it seemingly contrary, the one Lev_4:21, where it is to be burned, the other Lev_6:26, where it was to be eaten. But they are thus reconciled: It was to be burnt when the blood of this sacrifice was brought into the holy place, Lev_4:16,17; and when that was not done, which Aaron this first time could not do, for the reason expressed in Lev_10:18, it was to be eaten, and here lay their mistake.
He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar: he spares Aaron at this time, as overwhelmed with sorrow, and because the rebuking of him before his sons might have exposed him to some contempt; but he knew that the reproof, though directed to them, would concern him too, as he also apprehended it.
Which were left alive, preserved from death when their brethren were destroyed, which is here mentioned as an aggravation of their sin.