When a ruler] Of a Family, or any head of a Tribe, or any Governour; for the word in the Originall signifieth one elevated, or lifted up above others, as Numbers 1:4. & Chap. 7. vers. 2.
and is guilty: Or if his sinne wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge, &c.] That is, whether presently he come to acknowledge it; or afterwards it be disclosed unto him, so soone as he knows of it, he shall bring his sin-offering.