Exo 27:1-8, 30:1-7, Lev 1:5, 7-9, Lev 8-10, Lev 21-22, Num 16:16-50 | TSK | STEP | The altar of burnt offering, with the vessels thereof. The court of the tabernacle inclosed with hangings and pillars. The measure of the court, and the furniture of brass. The oil for the lamp. altar of shittim wood.

Exodus 27:1-8

1 The altar of burnt offering, with the vessels thereof.

9 The court of the tabernacle inclosed with hangings and pillars.

18 The measure of the court, and the furniture of brass.

20 The oil for the lamp.

altar of shittim wood.

20:24-26; 24:4; 38:1-7; 40:10,29; 2Sa 24:18; 2Ch 4:1; Eze 43:13-17

horns of it upon the four corners thereof.The horns might have been designed not only for ornament, but to prevent the sacrifices from falling off, and to tie the victim to, previous to its being sacrificed.

29:12; Le 4:7,18,25; 8:15; 16:18; 1Ki 1:50; 2:28; Ps 118:27

Heb 6:18

overlay it with brass.

Nu 16:38,39; 1Ki 8:64

his shovels.

Le 16:12; 1Ki 7:40,45; 2Ch 4:11; Jer 52:18

basons.

24:6

flesh-hooks.

38:3; Nu 4:14; 1Sa 2:13,14; 1Ch 28:17; 2Ch 4:16

firepans.

1Ki 7:45; 2Ki 25:15; Jer 52:19,20

a grate of network.

35:16; 38:4,5

rings in the four corners thereof.

25:12

compass of the altar.

38:4

staves for the altar.

35:13-15; 30:4; Nu 4:44

bear it.

25:28; 30:4; Nu 4:13,14

as it was shewed. Heb. he shewed.

25:9,40; 26:30-37; 1Ch 28:11,19; Mt 15:9; Col 2:20-23; Heb 8:5

Exodus 30:1-7

1 The altar of incense.

11 The ransom of souls.

17 The brazen laver.

22 The holy anointing oil.

34 The composition of the incense.

The Samaritan inserts the first ten verses of this chapterafter ver. 32 of chap. 26.

an altar.

7,8,10; 37:25-28; 40:5; Le 4:7,18; 1Ki 6:20; 2Ch 26:16; Re 8:3

to burn incense.Where so many sacrifices were offered, it was essentially necessary to have some pleasing perfume to counteract the disagreeable smells that must have arisen from the slaughter of so many animals, the burning of so much flesh, the sprinkling of the blood. No blood was ever sprinkled on this altar, except once a year, on the grand day of expiation. It was called also the golden altar (Nu 4:11); and the incense was as constantly burnt on it every day, as the morning and evening sacrifice of a lamb was burnt on the brazen altar.

the horns.

27:2

overlay it.

25:11,24

top. Heb. roof. sides. Heb. walls.

rings.

25:12,14,27; 26:29; 27:4,7

two corners. Heb. ribs.

25:13,27

vail.

26:31-35; 40:3,5,26; Mt 27:51; Heb 9:3,4

before the mercy seat that is over the testimony.The words [lpny hkprt ashr `l h`dt,] {liphney haccapporeth asher âl haaiduth,} "before the mercy-seat that is over the testimony," are thought to be a repetition of the preceding clause, [lpn` hprkt 'sha `l 'rn h`dt,] {liphney happarocheth asher âl aron haaiduth,} "before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony; the word [hprkt,] ,] {happarocheth,} "the vail," being corrupted, by transposing the letters into [hkprt,] ,] {hacapporeth,} "the mercy-seat," and the word ['rn,] ,] {aron,} "ark," omitted. This repetition, as Dr. Kennicott observes, places the altar of incense before the mercy-seat, and consequently in the Holy of Holies! Now this could not be, as the altar of incense was attended every day, and the Holy of Holies entered only once in the year. The five words which appear to be a repetition are wanting in twenty-six of Kennicott's and Rossi's MSS. and in the Samaritan Text.

25:21,22; Le 16:13; 1Ch 28:11; Heb 4:16; 9:5

I will.

36; 29:42,43; Nu 17:4

sweet incense. Heb. incense of spices.

34-38

dresseth.

27:20,21; 1Sa 2:28; 3:3; 1Ch 23:13; Lu 1:9; Ac 6:4

Leviticus 1:5

kill.

11; 3:2,8,13; 16:15; 2Ch 29:22-24; Mic 6:6

the priests.

11,15; 2Ch 35:11; Heb 10:11

sprinkle.

11; 3:2,8,13; Ex 24:6-8; 29:16; Nu 18:17; 2Ch 35:11; Isa 52:15

Eze 36:25; Heb 12:24; 1Pe 1:2

Leviticus 1:7-9

fire.

6:12,13; 9:24; 10:1; 1Ch 21:26; 2Ch 7:1; Mal 1:10

lay.

Ge 22:9; Ne 13:31

8:18-21; 9:13,14; Ex 29:17,18; 1Ki 18:23,33

inwards.

13; 8:21; 9:14; Ps 51:6; Jer 4:14; Mt 23:25-28

burn all.

13,17; 3:11; Ps 66:15; Zec 13:7

a sweet.

Ge 8:21; Eze 20:28,41; 2Co 2:15; Eph 5:2; Php 4:18

Leviticus 8

1 Moses consecrates Aaron and his sons.

14 Their sin offering.

18 Their burnt offering.

22 The ram of consecration.

31 The place and time of their consecration.

Aaron.

Ex 29:1-4

garments.

Ex 28:2-4,40-43; 39:1-31,41

anointing.

Ex 30:23-37; 40:12-15

bullock.

Ex 29:1,2; Heb 7:27

Nu 20:8; 21:16; 1Ch 13:5; 15:3; 2Ch 5:2,6; 30:2,13,25; Ne 8:1

Ps 22:25; Ac 2:1

9,13,17,29,35; Ex 39:1,5,7,21,26,29,31,32,42,43; De 12:32

Mt 28:20; 1Co 11:23; 15:3

Lord commanded to be done.

Ex 29:4-37

washed.

Ex 29:4; 40:12; Ps 51:2,7; Isa 1:16; Eze 36:25; Zec 13:1

Joh 13:8-10; 1Co 6:11; Eph 5:26; Heb 9:10; 10:22; Re 1:5,6; 7:14

he put.

Ex 28:4; 29:5; 39:1-7; Isa 61:3,10; Ro 3:22; 13:14; Ga 3:27

the ephod.The {ephod} seems to have been a garment worn by persons of distinction of various characters (2 Sa 6:4); the description of which in the book of Exodus (ch. 28:6, etc.) relates only to its materials. As to its shape, the LXX. calls it [epómis,] which signifies that it was worn on the shoulders. So also Josephus, who says it was a cubit long. St. Jerome compares it with the Roman {caracalla,} which was a sort of short cloak, only that it had a head or hood, which the ephod had not.

the breast plate.

Ex 28:15-29; 39:8-21; So 8:6; Isa 59:17; Eph 6:14; 1Th 5:8

the Urim.

Ex 28:30; Ezr 2:63

Ex 28:4,36-38; 29:6; 39:28-30; Zec 3:5; 6:11-14; Php 2:9-11

Ex 30:23-29; 40:9-11

Ex 4:6,17; 16:14,19; Isa 52:15; Eze 36:25; Tit 3:6

4:3; 21:10,11,12; Ex 28:41; 29:7; 30:30; Ps 133:2

Moses.

Ex 28:40,41; 29:8,9; 40:14,15; Ps 132:9; Isa 61:6,10; 1Pe 2:5,9

Re 1:6; 5:10

coats.The {kethoneth,} or coat, was made of linen; but the form of it is no where described in Scripture, except in the visionary appearance of Christ to St. John, in the form and habit of a priest (Re 1:13); where he is said to be [endedumenos podere,] "clothed with a garment down to the feet," which perfectly agrees with the description the Jewish writers give of it; who also say, that it had sleeves which came down to the wrist, and was tied about the neck; so that it was not unlike a long shirt. It was common to all the priests; but the tunic of the high priest was made of finer linen, or wove in a more curious manner. (Ex 28:4.)

put. Heb. bound. bonnets.The {migbaôth}, or bonnets, are described by Josephus as being like helmets of linen, one wreath being plaited and folded over another and a thin cap, suited to its shape, put over all, to prevent its unfolding.

he brought.

2; 4:3-12; 16:6; Ex 29:10-14; Isa 53:10; Eze 43:19; Ro 8:3; 2Co 5:21

Heb 7:26-28; 1Pe 3:18

laid.

1:4; 4:4; 16:21

he slew it.

1:5,11; 3:2,8; Ex 29:10,11

Moses.

4:7,17,18,30; Ex 29:12,36,37; Eze 43:19-27; Heb 9:18-23

to make.

6:30; 16:20; 2Ch 29:24; Eze 45:20; Da 9:24; Ro 5:10; 2Co 5:18-21

Eph 2:16; Col 1:21,22; Heb 2:17The beginning of this verse may be rendered, "And Moses slew it, and took the blood," etc. We find it expressly said in Exodus, that Moses slew the sacrifices.

Ex 29:11Yet, in general, the offerer seems to have killed his own sacrifice.

3:3-5; 4:8,9; Ex 29:13

4:11,12,21; 6:30; 16:27; Ex 29:14; Ga 3:13; Heb 13:11-13

1:4-13; Ex 29:15-18

a sweet savour.

1:17; 2:9; Ge 8:21; Ex 29:18; Eph 5:2

the ram of consecration.

2,29; 7:37; Ex 29:19-31; Joh 17:19; 1Co 1:30; 2Co 5:21

Eph 5:25,27; Re 1:5,6"The ram of consecration" was evidently a sacrifice of peace offering though presented on a particular occasion. Part of the blood was applied, not as that of the sin offering, to the horns of the altar, but to Aaron and his sons; to the tips of their right ears, the thumbs of their right hands, and the great toes of their right feet: implying their obligation to hearken diligently to the word of God--to do his work in the best manner which they could, and to walk in his ways with steady perseverance; and also, that they could not do these things acceptably except through the atoning blood, received and applied by faith. Then part of the blood reserved upon the altar, probably in a basin for that purpose, was mingled with the holy anointing oil, and sprinkled on the garments both of Aaron and his sons, to hallow them to the Lord. "This may be looked upon as a lively representation of our purification by the blood of jesus Christ, through his Holy Spirit."--Bp. Patrick

Moses took.

14:14,17,28; Ex 29:20; Ro 6:13,19; 12:1; 1Co 1:2,30; 6:20

1Th 5:22; Php 1:20; 2:17; Heb 2:10; 5:8

Moses sprinkled.

Heb 9:22

3:3-5,9; Ex 29:22-25; Pr 23:26; Isa 53:10

Ex 29:23; Joh 1:14; Ac 5:12; 1Ti 2:5

upon Aaron's.

Ex 29:24-37; Jer 30:21; Heb 9:14

and waved.

7:30,31

Moses.

Ex 29:25; Ps 22:13,14; Zec 13:7; Heb 10:14-22

they were.

7:30-34; Ex 29:26,27; Isa 66:20; 1Co 10:31; 1Pe 4:11

the anointing.

Ex 29:21; 30:30; Isa 61:1,3; Ga 5:22-25; Heb 2:11; 1Pe 1:2

1Jo 2:27; Re 7:14

and sanctified.

10:3; Nu 3:3

Boil.

6:28; 7:15; Ex 29:31,32; De 12:6,7; 1Sa 2:13-17; Eze 46:20-24

eat it.

10:17; Joh 6:33,35,51,53-56; Ga 2:20

7:17; Ex 12:10; 29:34; Pr 27:1; Ec 9:10; 2Co 6:2; Heb 3:13,14

seven days.

14:8; Ex 29:30,35; Nu 19:12; Eze 43:25-27

Heb 7:16,27; 10:11,12

the tabernacle.

14:8; Ex 29:35; Nu 19:12; Eze 43:25; 2Co 7:1; Col 2:9,10; Heb 7:28

Heb 9:23,24

keep.

30; 10:1; Nu 3:7; 9:19; De 11:1; 1Ki 2:3; 1Ti 1:3,4,18; 5:21

1Ti 6:13,17,20; 2Ti 4:1

Aaron.This was necessary to be added, to show the exact fulfilment of the commandments delivered to Moses, and which are recorded in Exodus, ch. 29; and consequently the complete consecration and preparation of Aaron and his sons to fill the awfully important office of priests and mediators between God and the children of Israel, to offer sacrifices, and make atonement for the sins of the people.

Ex 39:43; 40:16; De 4:2; 12:32; 1Sa 15:22

Leviticus 9

1 The first offerings of Aaron, for himself and the people.

8 The sin offering,

12 and the burnt offering for himself.

15 The offerings for the people.

23 Moses and Aaron bless the people.

24 Fire comes from the Lord, upon the altar.

the eighth day.Not on the eighth day of the month, but on the first day after their consecration, which occupied seven days, and before which they were deemed unfit to minister in holy things, being considered in a state of imperfection. All creatures, for the most part, were considered as in a state of uncleanness and imperfection, seven days, and perfected on the eighth. (see ch. 12:2, 3; 14:8-10; 15:13, 14; 22:27; Nu 6:9, 10.)

8:33; 14:10,23; 15:14,29; Nu 6:10; Eze 43:26,27; Mt 28:1

a young.

7,8; 4:3; 8:14; Ex 29:1; 2Co 5:21; Heb 5:3; 7:27; 10:10-14

and a ram.

8:18

Take ye.

4:23; 16:5,15; Ezr 6:17; 10:19; Isa 53:10; Ro 8:3; 2Co 5:21

Tit 2:14; Heb 9:26-28; 1Pe 2:24; 3:18; Re 5:9

a kid.As the offering here is a kid, which was the sacrifice of the sin of the ruler, some think that the reading of the Samaritan and the LXX. is to be preferred: "Speak unto the Elders of Israel."

a calf.

both.

12:6; 14:10; 23:12; Ex 12:5

a bullock.

3:1-17

and a meat.

2:1-16; 6:14-23; Nu 15:3-9

to-day.

6,23; Ex 16:10; 19:11; 24:16; 29:43; 40:34,35; Nu 14:10; 16:19

1Ki 8:10-12; Eze 43:2

and all the congregation.

Ex 19:17; De 31:12; 1Ch 15:3; 2Ch 5:2,3; Ne 8:1

and the glory.

23; Ex 16:10; 24:16; 40:34,35; 1Ki 8:10-12; 2Ch 5:13,14

Eze 43:2

offer thy.

2; 4:3,20; 8:34; 1Sa 3:14; Heb 5:3; 7:27,28; 9:7

offer the.

4:16-20; Heb 5:1

1:4,5; 4:4,29

4:6,7,17,18,25,30; 8:15; 16:18; Heb 2:10; 9:22,23; 10:4-19

the fat.

3:3-5,9-11; 4:8-12,34,35; 8:16,17; Ps 51:17; Pr 23:26; Isa 53:10

Isa 57:15; 66:2

as the Lord.

4:8

4:11,12,21; 8:17; 16:27,28; Heb 13:11,12

1:1-17; 8:18-21; Eph 5:2,25-27

8:21

3; 4:27-31; 9:15; Nu 28:1-29:31; Isa 53:10; 2Co 5:21; Tit 2:14

Heb 2:17; 5:3

manner. or, ordinance.

12-14; 1:3-10; 8:18-21; Heb 10:1-22

the meat.

1; 2:1,2; Ex 29:38,41; Joh 6:53; Ga 2:20

took an handful thereof. Heb. filled his hand out of it.beside.

Ex 29:38-42

a sacrifice.

3:1-17; 7:11-18; Ro 5:1,10; Eph 2:14-17; Col 1:20

10; 3:5,16

they put.

7:29-34

burnt.

3:14-17

the breasts.

7:24,26,30-34; Ex 29:27,28; Isa 49:3; Lu 2:13; 1Pe 4:11

as Moses commanded.The Samaritan text, and thirty MSS. have, {kaasher tzivvah yehowah eth Moshe,} "as Jehovah commanded Moses;" which is also the reading of the LXX., Arabic, and Targum of Onkelos, and seems to be the true reading, being supported, not only by these authorities, but by the whole chapter itself.'

his hand. or, as the Greek has it, "his hands."Menachem gives reason why it is written hand, to signify the right hand, because that was lifted up higher than the left. The lifting up of the hand was a gesture used in speaking, and signifying any weighty thing, Isa 49:22; and particularly in swearing, Ge 14:22; praying, Ps 28:2; and blessing, either of God, Ps 134:2, or of men, as in this place. Paul, speaking of prayer, uses the phrase, "lifting up holy hands;" as also David: "Let the lifting up of my hands be as the evening sacrifice."

Ge 14:18-20; Nu 6:23-27; De 10:8; 21:5; 1Ki 8:55; 1Ch 23:13

2Ch 6:3; Ps 72:17; Mr 10:16; Lu 24:50; Ac 3:26; 2Co 13:14

Heb 7:6,7; 1Pe 3:9

came out.

Lu 1:21,22; Heb 9:24-28

the glory.

6; Nu 14:10; 16:19,42

there came a fire.These victims were consumed by a fire of no human kindling. Josephus says that "a fire proceeded from the victims themselves, of its own accord, which had the appearance of a flash of lightning, and consumed all that was upon the altar."

6:13; Ge 4:3,4; 15:17; Ex 3:2; Jud 6:21; 13:19,20,23; 1Ki 18:38

2Ki 19:15; 1Ch 21:26; 2Ch 6:2; 7:1-3; Ps 20:3,4; 80:1; *marg:

they shouted.

Ge 17:3; Nu 14:5; 16:22; 1Ki 18:39; 2Ch 7:3; Ezr 3:11; Mt 26:39

Re 4:9; 5:8; 7:11

Leviticus 10

1 Nadab and Abihu, for offering strange fire, are burnt by fire.

6 Aaron and his sons are forbidden to mourn for them.

8 The priests are forbidden wine when they are to go into the tabernacle.

12 The law of eating the holy things.

16 Aaron's excuse for transgressing thereof.

Nadab.

16:1; 22:9; Ex 6:23; 24:1,9; 28:1; Nu 3:3,4; 26:61

censer.

16:12; Ex 27:3; 38:3; Nu 16:6,7,16,17,46; Heb 9:4

put incense.

Ex 30:1-9,34-36; 31:11; 37:29; 40:27; 1Ki 13:1,2; 2Ch 26:16-20

Ps 141:2; Jer 44:8,15,19-21; Lu 1:9-11; Re 8:3-5

strange.

9:24; 16:12; Nu 16:18,46

which.

Ex 30:9; De 4:2; 12:32; 17:3; Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35Bp. Hall says, "It is a dangerous thing, in the service of God, to decline from his institutions; we have to do with a God, who is wise to prescribe his own worship--just to require what he has prescribed--and powerful to avenge what he has not prescribed."

fire.

9:24; 16:1; Nu 3:3,4; 16:35; 26:61; 2Sa 6:7; 2Ki 1:10,12; 1Ch 24:2

they died.

Nu 3:3,4; 16:32,33,49; 26:61; 1Sa 6:19; 1Ch 13:10; 15:13; Ac 5:5,10

1Co 10:11This fire, which destroyed the sacrificers, came from the same source with that which had consumed the sacrifices.

See ch.

9:24Note. They died.--The wages of sin is death.--They died suddenly--they died before the Lord; that is, before the vail that covered the mercy-seat.--They died by fire, as by fire they sinned. The fire did not burn them to ashes, as it had done the sacrifices, nor so much as singe their coats, (ver. 5) but struck them dead in an instant. By these different effects of the same fire, we learn that it was no common fire, but kindled by the breath of the Almighty.

Isa 30:33

I will be.

8:35; 21:6,8,15,17,21; 22:9; Ex 14:4; 19:22; 29:43,44; Nu 20:12

De 32:51; 1Sa 6:20; 1Ch 15:12,13; Ps 89:7; 119:120; Isa 52:11

Eze 20:41; 42:13; Heb 12:28,29

before.

1Sa 2:30; Isa 49:3; Eze 28:22; Joh 12:28; 13:31,32; 14:13

Ac 5:11-13; 2Th 1:10; 1Pe 4:17

Aaron.

Ge 18:25; 1Sa 3:18; Job 1:20,21; 2:10; Ps 39:9; 46:10; Isa 39:8

Mt 10:37

Uzziel.

Ex 6:18,22; Nu 3:19,30; 1Ch 6:2

carry.

Lu 7:12; Ac 5:6,9,10; 8:2

Uncover.

13:45; 21:1-15; Ex 33:5; Nu 5:18; 6:6,7; 14:6; De 33:9; Jer 7:29

Eze 24:16,17; Mic 1:16

lest wrath.

Nu 16:22,41-47; Jos 7:1,11; 22:18,20; 2Sa 24:1,15-17

ye shall.

21:12; Mt 8:21,22; Lu 9:60

the anointing.

8:12,30; Ex 28:41; 30:30; 40:13-15; Ac 10:38; 2Co 1:21

Do not.

Nu 6:3,20; Pr 31:4,5; Isa 28:7; Jer 35:5,6; Eze 44:21; Lu 1:15

Eph 5:18; 1Ti 3:3,8; 5:23; Tit 1:7

strong drink.The Hebrew {shecher,} Arabic {sakar,} or {sukr,} Greek [sikera,] from {shachar,} to inebriate, signifies any kind of fermented and inebriating liquor beside wine. So St. Jerome informs us, that {sicera} in Hebrew denotes any inebriating liquor, whether made of corn, the juice of apples, honey, dates, or any other fruit. These different kinds of liquors are described by Pliny, who calls then {vina factitia}. One of the four prohibited drinks among the Mohammedans in India is called {sakar,} which denotes inebriating liquor in general, but especially date wine.

it shall be.

3:17

11:47; 20:25,26; Jer 15:19; Eze 22:26; 44:23; Tit 1:15; 1Pe 1:14-16

De 24:8; 33:10; 2Ch 17:9; 30:22; Ne 8:2,8; 9:13,14; Jer 2:8; 18:18

Mal 2:7; Mt 28:20; Ac 20:27; 1Th 4:2

Take.

2:1-16; 6:15-18; 7:9; 21:22; Ex 29:2; Nu 18:9,10; Eze 44:29

for it is most.

21:22

ye shall.

Nu 18:10

for so I.

2:3; 6:16

7:29-34; 9:21; Ex 29:24-28; Nu 18:11; Joh 4:34

heave shoulder.

7:29,30,34

for ever.

7:34; Ge 13:15; 17:8,13,17; 1Co 9:13,14

the goat.

6:26,30; 9:3,15

angry.

Ex 32:19-22; Nu 12:3; Mt 5:22; Mr 3:5; 10:14; Eph 4:26

Wherefore.

6:26,29; 7:6,7

to bear.

16:22; 22:16; Ex 28:38,43; Nu 18:1; Isa 53:6-11; Eze 4:4-6

Eze 18:19,20; Joh 1:29; 2Co 5:21; Heb 9:28; 1Pe 2:24

the blood.

6:30

as I commanded.

6:26,30

this day.

9:8,12; Heb 7:27; 9:8

should.

De 12:7; 26:14; 1Sa 1:7,8; Isa 1:11,15; Jer 6:20; 14:12; Ho 9:4

Mal 1:10,13; 2:13; Php 4:4

he was content.

2Ch 30:18-20; Zec 7:8,9; Mt 12:3-7,20

Leviticus 21

1 Of the priests' mourning.

6 Of their holiness.

7 Of their marriages.

8 Of their estimation.

9 Of the priest's daughter convicted of whoredom.

10 Of the high priest's holiness.

13 Of his marriage.

16 The priests that have blemishes must not minister in the sanctuary.

Speak.

Ho 5:1; Mal 2:1,4

There.

11; 10:6,7; Nu 19:14,16; Eze 44:25

18:6; 1Th 4:13

or, the verse may be read, being an husband among his people,he shall not defile himself for his wife, etc.

Eze 24:16,17

not make baldness.This custom is also called rounding the corners of the head, (ch. 19:27,) and seems to have been performed in honour of some idol.

10:6; 19:27,28; De 14:1; Isa 15:2; 22:12; Jer 16:6; 48:37; Eze 44:20

Am 8:10; Mic 1:16

the corner.The Hebrew {peath zakon}, may denote the whiskers; as the Syriac {phatho} signifies. These are by the Arabs, according to Niebuhr, still cut entirely off, or worn quite short; and hence they are called by Jeremiah, [qtswtsy p'h,] those with cropped whiskers. Perhaps some superstition, of which we are ignorant, was connected with this; but whether or not, it was the object of Moses to keep the Israelites distinct from other nations.

holy.

8; 10:3; Ex 28:36; 29:44; Ezr 8:28; 1Pe 2:9

profane.

18:21; 19:12; Mal 1:6,11,12

bread.

3:11; Eze 44:7; Mal 1:7

therefore.

Isa 52:11

that is a whore.

8; Eze 44:22; 1Ti 3:11

put away.

De 24:1-4; Isa 50:1

sanctify.

6; Ex 19:10,14; 28:41; 29:1,43,44

for I.

11:44,45; 19:2; 20:7,8; Joh 10:36; 17:19; Heb 7:26; 10:29

the daughter.

1Sa 2:17,34; 3:13,14; Eze 9:6; Mal 2:3; Mt 11:20-24; 1Ti 3:4,5

Tit 1:6

she shall be burnt.

20:14; Ge 38:24; Jos 7:15,25; Isa 33:14

upon.

8:12; 10:7; 16:32; Ex 29:29,30; Nu 35:25; Ps 133:2

consecrated.

8:7-9; Ex 28:2-4

uncover.

10:6,7; 13:45; 2Sa 15:30; Es 6:12

not rend.

Ge 37:34; Job 1:20; Mt 26:65All human corpses were considered as unclean. Whoever touched one was unclean for seven days, and was obliged on the third and seventh day to purify himself according to the Mosaic instructions. In the case of the priest it went still farther; insomuch, that even mourning for the dead by any external sign, such as tearing their clothes, defiled them. Hence such mournings were absolutely forbidden to be used in any case, and by the other priests also, except in the case of their very nearest relations, for whom they were allowed to mourn. This statue is founded on the importance of sustaining the decency and purity of Divine worship. The servants of the Deity were to keep themselves at a distance from every thing that in the least degree savoured of uncleanness.

his father.

1,2; Nu 6:7; 19:14; De 33:9; Mt 8:21,22; 12:46-50; Lu 9:59,60

Lu 14:26; 2Co 5:16

go out.

10:7

for the crown.

8:9-12,30; Ex 28:36; 29:6,7; Isa 61:1; Ac 10:38

7; Eze 44:22; 2Co 11:2; Re 14:4

profane.

Ge 18:19; Ezr 2:62; 9:2; Ne 13:23-29; Mal 2:11,15; Ro 11:16

1Co 7:14

for I the.

blemish.

22:20-25; 1Th 2:10; 1Ti 3:2; Heb 7:26

let him.

21; 10:3; Nu 16:5; Ps 65:4

bread. or, food.

3:11,16

a blind man.

Isa 56:10; Mt 23:16,17,19; 1Ti 3:2,3,7; Tit 1:7,10

superfluous.

22:23

a dwarf. or, too slender. or hath.

De 23:1

a blemish.In the above list of blemishes, we meet with some that might render the priest contemptible in the eyes of men; and others that would be very great impediments in the discharge of his ministerial duties.

to offer.

6,8,17

both.

2:3,10; 6:16,17,29; 7:1; 24:8,9; Nu 18:9,10

and of the holy.

22:10-13; Nu 18:10,19

go in.

Ex 30:6-8; 40:26,27; Eze 44:9-14

profane.

12; 15:31

for I the Lord.

Aaron.

Mal 2:1-7; Col 4:17; 1Ti 1:18; 2Ti 2:2

Leviticus 22

1 The priests in their uncleanness must abstain from the holy things.

6 How they shall be cleansed.

10 Who of the priest's house may eat of the holy things.

17 The sacrifices must be without blemish.

26 The age of the sacrifice.

29 The law of eating the sacrifice of thanksgiving.

3-6; 15:31; Nu 6:3-8

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

Numbers 16:16-50

Be thou.

before.

Korah.

and the glory.

42; 12:5; 14:10; Ex 16:7,10; Le 9:6,23

Separate.

Ge 19:15-22; Jer 5:16; Ac 2:40; 2Co 6:17; Eph 5:6,7; Re 18:4

that I may.

45; 14:12,15; Ex 32:10; 33:5; Ps 73:19; Isa 37:36; Heb 12:28,29

they fell.

4,45; 14:5

the God.

27:16; Job 12:10; Ec 12:7; Isa 57:16; Zec 12:1; Heb 12:9

one man sin.

Ge 18:23-25,32; Jos 7:1-26; 2Sa 24:1,17; Ro 5:18; 1Co 13:7

21It should seem that Dathan and Abiram had set up a spacious tabernacle in the midst of the tents of their families, where they kept court, met in council, and hung out their flag of defiance against Moses; it is here called the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. There, as in the place of rendezvous, Dathan and Abiram stayed, when Korah and his friends went up to the tabernacle of the Lord, waiting the issue of their trial; but here we are told how they had their business done, before that trial was over. God will take what method he pleases in his judgments.

11:16,17,25,30

Depart, I pray you.The rebels, with all that belonged to them, were, as an accursed thing, devoted to utter destruction. (Le 27:28, 29. Jos 7:13-15, 23-26.) The people therefore were forbidden to touch anything belonging to them; that they might enter a solemn protest against their wickedness, acknowledge the justice of their punishment, and express their fear of being involved in it.

21-24; Ge 19:12-14; De 13:17; Isa 52:11; Mt 10:14; Ac 8:20; 13:51

2Co 6:17; 1Ti 5:22; Re 18:4

and stood.

2Ki 9:30,31; Job 9:4; 40:10,11; Pr 16:18; 18:12; Isa 28:14

Hereby.

Ex 3:12; 4:1-9; 7:9; De 18:22; Zec 2:9; 4:9; Joh 5:36; 11:42; 14:11

for I have.{Kee lo millibbee,} "and that not out of my heart." It was not of my own device or contrivance. It was not out of an ambitious desire to be great myself that I took upon me the government, nor out of private affection to my brother, that I appointed him and his family to the priesthood.

of mine.

24:13; 1Ki 18:36; Jer 23:16; Eze 13:17; Joh 5:30; 6:38

the common, etc. Heb. as every man dieth. visited.

Ex 20:5; 32:34; Job 35:15; Isa 10:3; Jer 5:9; La 4:22

the Lord.

1Ki 22:28; 2Ch 18:27

make a new thing.Heb. create a creature; {wëim beriah yivra Yehowah,} "And if Jehovah should create a creation," i.e., do such a thing as was never done before.

Job 31:3; Isa 28:21; 43:19; 45:7,12; Jer 31:22

and they.

33; Ps 55:15

26:10,11; 27:3; De 11:6; Ps 106:17,18

the earth.

30; Ge 4:11; Isa 5:14; Re 12:16

all the.

17; 26:11; 27:3; 1Ch 6:22,37; Ps 84:1; 85:1; 88:1; *titles

into the.

Ps 9:15; 55:23; 69:15; 143:7; Isa 14:9,15; Eze 32:18,30

they perished.

Jude 1:11

fled.

Isa 33:3; Zec 14:5; Re 6:15-17

Lest.

17:12,13

And there.

11:1; 26:10; Le 10:2; Ps 106:18

two hundred.

2,17

the censers.

7,18

hallowed.{Kadashoo,} consecrated, i.e., to the service of God, though in this instance, improperly employed.

Le 27:28

sinners.

1Ki 2:23; Pr 1:18; 8:36; 20:2; Hab 2:10

a sign.

40; 17:10; 26:10; Eze 14:8; 1Co 10:11; 2Pe 2:6

that no.

3:10,38; 18:4-7; Le 22:10; 2Ch 26:18-20; Jude 1:11

come near.

1Ki 13:1-3; 2Ch 26:16-21

on the morrow.It is not unlikely, that the people persuaded themselves that Moses and Aaron had used some cunning in this business and that the earthquake and fire were artificial; for, had they discerned the hand of God in this punishment, they would scarcely have dared the anger of the Lord in the very face of his justice. And while they thus absurdly imputed this judgement to Moses and Aaron, they impiously called the persons, thus perishing in their rebellion, "the people of the Lord!"

all the.

1-7; 14:2; Ps 106:13,23,25-48; Isa 26:11

Ye have.

3; 2Sa 16:7,8; 1Ki 18:17; Jer 37:13,14; 38:4; 43:3; Am 7:10; Mt 5:11

Ac 5:28; 21:28; 2Co 6:8

when the.

the glory.

19; 14:10; 20:6; Ex 16:7,10; 24:16; 40:34,35; Le 9:23

Get you up.

21,24,26

And they.

22; 20:6; 1Ch 21:16; Mt 26:39

from off.

Le 9:24; 10:1; 16:12,13; Isa 6:6,7; Ro 5:9,10; Heb 7:25-27; 9:25,26

Re 8:3-5

and put.

Ps 141:2; Mal 1:11

an atonement.

Ex 30:7-10; Le 16:11-16; 1Jo 2:1,2

there is wrath.

1:53; 8:19; 11:33; 18:5; Le 10:6; 1Ch 27:24; Ps 106:29

the plague is begun.God now punished them by a secret blast, so as to put the matter beyond dispute; His hand, and His alone, was seen, not only in the plague, but in the manner in which the mortality was arrested. It was necessary that it should be done in this way, that the whole congregation might see that these men who had perished were not "the people of the Lord," and that God, not Moses and Aaron, had destroyed them.

and ran.

Mt 5:44; Ro 12:21

and behold.

Ps 106:29

and he put.

46; De 33:10,11; Isa 53:10-12 What the plague was we know not; but it seems from this to have begun at one part of the camp, and to have proceeded regularly onward.

18,35; 25:8-11; 2Sa 24:16,17,25; 1Ch 21:26,27; 1Th 1:10

1Ti 2:5,6; Heb 7:24,25; Jas 5:16; Joh 5:14

fourteen thousand.

32-35; 25:9; 1Ch 21:14; Heb 2:1-3; 10:28,29; 12:25

43; 1Ch 21:26-30