Lev 22:2-33, 1Sa 2:15, 29 | TSK | STEP | that they profane not.This is the very ground of the prohibition, that they might preserve in their minds a holy reverence for the Divine Majesty. Hence when they approached unto him, they must be free from every legal impurity. If great men are to be approached with respect, how much more must Jehovah be approached with holy reverence! hallow.

Leviticus 22:2-33

that they profane not.This is the very ground of the prohibition, that they might preserve in their minds a holy reverence for the Divine Majesty. Hence when they approached unto him, they must be free from every legal impurity. If great men are to be approached with respect, how much more must Jehovah be approached with holy reverence!

32; 18:21; 19:12; 20:3; 21:6

hallow.

Ex 13:12; 28:38; Nu 18:32; De 15:19

having his uncleanness upon him.That is, in other words, "when he is unclean."

7:20,21

that soul.That is, according to some, thrust out of the priest's office, or from officiating at the altar; or, according to others, cut off by some immediate stroke of divine justice, like Nadab and Abihu.

from my.

Ex 33:14,15; Ps 16:11; 51:11; Mt 25:41; 2Th 1:9

the seed.These words include the daughters as well as the sons of Aaron.

a leper.

13:2,3,44-46

running issue. Heb. running of the reins.

15:2,3

holy things.

2:3,10; 6:25-29; 21:22; Nu 18:9,19

until.

14:2-32; 15:13-15

unclean.

21:1; Nu 19:11-16

whose.

15:16

whosoever.

11:24,43,44

or a man.

15:7,19

11:24,25; 15:5; 16:24-28; Nu 19:7-10; Hag 2:13; 1Co 6:11; Heb 10:22

21:22; Nu 18:11-19; De 18:3,4; 1Co 9:4,13,14

17:15; Ex 22:31; De 14:21; Eze 44:31

bear sin for it.That is, be punished if he break it.

10:1,2; 16:2; Ex 28:43; Nu 18:22,32 The word {zar,} a stranger, does not mean one of another nation, a foreigner, which is expressed by {hechar,} but one who is not of the seed of Aaron, or does not belong to his family.

1Sa 21:6; Mt 12:4

his money. Heb. the purchase of his money.

Ge 17:13; Nu 18:11-13

a stranger. Heb. a man, a stranger.

21:3; Isa 40:13; *marg:

returned unto her father's house.A widow in Bengal not unfrequently returns to her father's house on the death of her husband: the union between her and her own family is never so dissolved as among European nations.

Ge 38:11

as in her.

10:14; Nu 18:11-19

5:15-19; 27:13,15

9; 19:8; Nu 18:32; Eze 22:26

suffer them to bear the iniquity of the trespass. or, ladethemselves with the iniquity of trespass in their eating. bear.

7:18; Ps 38:4; Isa 53:11,12; 1Pe 2:24

for I.

9; 20:8

Whatsoever.

1:2,10; 17:10,13

of the strangers.

Nu 15:14-16

vows.

7:16; 23:38; Nu 15:3; De 12:6; Ps 22:25; 56:12; 61:5,8; 65:1; 66:13

Ps 116:14,18; Ec 5:4; Jon 1:16; 2:9; Na 1:15; Ac 18:18

freewill.

Nu 15:3; De 12:6,17; 16:10

1:3,10; 4:32; Ex 12:5; Mt 27:4,19,24,54; Lu 23:14,41,47; Joh 19:4

2Co 5:21; Eph 5:27; Heb 9:14; 1Pe 1:19; 2:22-24; 3:18

25; De 15:21; 17:1; Mal 1:8,13,14

peace.

3:1,6; 7:11-38

to accomplish.

Ge 28:20; 35:1-3; Nu 15:3,8; De 23:21-23; Ps 50:14; Pr 7:14

Ec 5:4,5

sheep. or, goats. it shall be perfect.This law is so founded on the nature of the thing itself, that it has been in force among all nations that sacrificed victims to their deities.

Blind.

20; 21:18-21; Mal 1:8

an offering.

1:9,13; 3:3,5

lamb. or, kid. superfluous.

21:18

broken. or, cut.

20; De 23:1

a stranger's.

Nu 15:14-16; 16:40; Ezr 6:8-10

the bread.

21:6,8,21,22; Mal 1:7,8,12-14

because.

Eph 2:12; 1Jo 5:18

seven days.It was necessary for the mother's health that the young one should suck so long; and prior to this time, the process of nutrition in a young animal can scarcely be considered as completely formed. Besides this, it may justly be asserted, that the flesh of very young animals is comparatively innutritive. There is something brutish in eating the young of beast or fowl, before the hair and hoofs are perfect in the one, and feathers and claws in the other; and before this period, their flesh is not good for food, consequently they were not fit for sacrifice, which is termed the bread or food of God, (ver. 25.)

25; 12:2,3; 19:23,24; Ex 22:30

ewe. or, she goat. ye shall not kill it.This law was certainly intended to inculcate mercy and tenderness of heart; and so the Jews have understood it.

Ex 23:19; 34:26; De 14:21; 22:6,7

7:12-15; Ps 107:22; 116:17; Ho 14:2; Am 4:5; Heb 13:15; 1Pe 2:5

7:15-18; 19:7; Ex 16:19,20

18:4,5; 19:37; Nu 15:40; De 4:40; 1Th 4:1,2

2; 18:21

I will.

10:3; Isa 5:16; Mt 6:9; Lu 11:2

hallow you.

16; 20:8; 21:8,15; Ex 19:5,6; Joh 17:17; 1Co 1:2

11:45; 19:36; 25:38; Ex 6:7; 20:2; Nu 15:41

1 Samuel 2:15

Le 3:3-5,16; Ro 16:18; Php 3:19; Jude 1:12

1 Samuel 2:29

kick ye.

13-17; De 32:15; Mal 1:12,13

and at mine.They disdained to take the part allowed by the law; and would take for themselves what part they pleased, and as much as they pleased.

13-16

habitation.

De 12:5,6; Jos 18:1

and honourest.By permitting his sons to deal thus with the sacrifices, and to be served first, by taking their part before the fat, etc., was burnt to the Lord, Eli thus honoured his sons above God.

Le 19:15; De 33:9; Mt 10:37; 22:16; Lu 14:26; 2Co 5:16; Jas 3:17

make.

13-16; Isa 56:11,12; Eze 13:19; 34:2; Ho 4:8; Mic 3:5; Ro 16:18