A singular vow — Or, an eminent, or hard vow, not concerning things, which was customary, but concerning persons, which he devoted to the Lord, which was unusual and difficult: yet there want not instances of persons who devoted either themselves or their children, and that either more strictly, as... [ Continue Reading ]
Unto sixty years — Which is the best time for strength and service, and therefore prized at the highest rate.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thirty shekels — Less than the man's price, because she is inferior to him both in strength and serviceableness.... [ Continue Reading ]
Five years old — At which age they might be vowed by their parents, as appears from 1 Samuel 1:11, tho' not by themselves; and the children were obliged by their parents vow, which is not strange considering the parents right to dispose of their children so far as is not contrary to the mind of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Than thy estimation — If he be not able to pay the price which thou, according to the rules here given, requirest of him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whereof men bring an offering — That is, a clean beast. Giveth — Voweth to give: Shall be holy — Consecrated to God, either to be sacrificed, or to be given to the priest, according to the manner of the vow, and the intention of him that voweth.... [ Continue Reading ]
He shall not alter it, nor change it — Two words expressing the same thing more emphatically, that is, he shall in no wise change it, neither for one of the same, nor of another kind: partly because God would preserve the reverence of consecrated things, and therefore would not have them alienated,... [ Continue Reading ]
Unclean — Either for the kind, or for the quality of it; if it were such an one as might not be offered.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sanctify his house — By a vow, for of that way and manner of sanctification he speaks in this whole chapter.... [ Continue Reading ]
The fifth part — Which he might the better do, because the priests did usually put a moderate rate upon it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of his possession — That is, which is his by inheritance, because particular direction is given about purchased lands, Leviticus 27:22. And he saith, part of it, for it was unlawful to vow away all his possessions, because thereby he disabled himself from the performance of divers duties, and made h... [ Continue Reading ]
From the year of jubilee — That is, immediately after the year of jubilee is past. According to thy estimation — Now mentioned, of fifty shekels for an omer of barley seed. It shall stand — That is, that price shall be paid without diminution.... [ Continue Reading ]
After the jubilee — That is, some considerable time after. The defalcation from the full price of fifty shekels shall be more or less as the years are more or fewer.... [ Continue Reading ]
If he will not redeem it — When the priest shall set a price upon it, and offer it to him in the first place to redeem it: or, rather and, for this seems to be added by way of accumulation, if he, that is, the priest, of whom he might have redeemed it, upon his refusal, offers it to sale, and have s... [ Continue Reading ]
When it goeth out — That is, out of the possession of the other man to whom the priest sold it. The possession shall be the priests — For their maintenance. Nor is this repugnant to that law, that the priests should have no inheritance in the land, Numbers 18:20, for that is only spoken of, the trib... [ Continue Reading ]
His possession — His patrimony or inheritance.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy estimation — That is, the price which thou, O Moses, by my direction hast set in such cases. To the jubilee — As much as it is worth, for that space of time between the making of the vow and the year of jubilee: for he had no right to it for any longer time, as the next verse tells us. As an hol... [ Continue Reading ]
The shekel — About 2s. 6d.... [ Continue Reading ]
No man shall sanctify it — By vow; because it is not his own, but the Lord's already, and therefore to vow such a thing to God is a tacit derogation from, and an usurpation of the Lord's right, and a mocking of God by pretending to give what we cannot withhold from him. Or ox or sheep — Under these... [ Continue Reading ]
An unclean beast — That is, if it be the first — born of an unclean beast, as appears from Leviticus 27:26, which could not be vowed, because it was a first — born, nor offered, because it was unclean, and therefore is here commanded to be redeemed or sold. It shall be sold — And the price thereof w... [ Continue Reading ]
No devoted thing — That is, nothing which is absolutely devoted to God with a curse upon themselves or others, if they disposed not of it according to their vow; as the Hebrew word implies. Most holy — That is, only to be touched or employed by the priests, and by no other persons; no not by their o... [ Continue Reading ]
Devoted of men — Not by men, as some would elude It; but of men, for it is manifest both from this and the foregoing verses, that men are here not the persons devoting, but devoted to destruction, either by God's sentence, as idolaters, Exodus 22:20; Deuteronomy 23:15, the Canaanites, Deuteronomy 20... [ Continue Reading ]
The tithe — There are divers sorts of tithes, but this seems to be understood only of the ordinary and yearly tithes belonging to the Levites, as the very expression intimates, and the addition of the fifth part in case of redemption thereof implies.... [ Continue Reading ]
Under the rod — Either, The tither's rod, it being the manner of the Jews in tithing to cause all their cattle to pass through some gate or narrow passage, where the tenth was marked by a person appointed for that purpose and reserved for the priest. Or, the shepherd's rod, under which the herds and... [ Continue Reading ]
These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai — This has reference to the whole book. Many of these commandments are moral: others ceremonial and peculiar to the Jewish economy: Which yet are instructive to us, who have a key to the mysteries tha... [ Continue Reading ]