Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
shall put his hand upon the head--This was a significant act which implied not only that the offerer devoted the animal to God, but that he confessed his consciousness of sin and prayed that his guilt and its punishment might be transferred to the victim.
and it shall be--rather, "that it may be an acceptable atonement."
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Numbers 8:6-7
Numbers 27:18
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