Numbers 15:6
Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil. Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
For a ram the accompanying grain offering is fixed at two-tenths of an ephah of flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil. It belongs to the instructions on meal and drink offerings, including offerings connected with sins of ignorance. It belongs also to the law for sins committed in ignorance.
It stands in the account of the ceremonies, service, wanderings, and murmurings of the children of Israel, showing the very strict order God had among them. It stands among the subsidiary statutes given through Moses that are distinct from the Decalogue, the eternal constitution of God's government summarized in love to God and love to neighbor. Its chapter illustrates temporary sanitary or police regulations adapted to Israel in the wilderness and to special flagrant cases of presumptuous sin, such as the stoning of the man who defiantly gathered sticks on the Sabbath.
That strict order was given not because God needed it but because Israel needed to learn, and carrying out system forms a systematic character in the one who does it. Sins committed in ignorance can be atoned for, yet even an ignorant sin remains a sin and requires atonement. When the ignorant sin becomes known to him he is guilty and must make the required offering in order to be forgiven, otherwise the sin remains.