(cf. Leviticus 8). The ritual for the consecration of the priests. _Vv._1 3 (preparation of materials for the sacrifices) are preliminary: the ritual itself consists of the following parts: (1) washing the body, _v._4; (2) investiture and anointing of the high priest, _vv._5 7, and the investiture o... [ Continue Reading ]
Preparation of the offerings (cf. Leviticus 8:2).... [ Continue Reading ]
Three kinds of biscuit, for the _minḥâh_, or meal-offering (see on Leviticus 2.), accompanying the installation-offering: viz. (1) BREAD OF _unleavened_ CAKES, see on Exodus 12:15; (2) PERFORATED CAKES (_EB._i. 460) _unleavened, mingled with oil_, see on Leviticus 2:4; and (3) _wafers_(large, circul... [ Continue Reading ]
Washing of Aaron and his -sons" (i.e. the common priests, as distinguished from the high priest); cf. Leviticus 8:6. This washing extended to the entire person; and was different from the subsequent ordinary washings of the hands and feet before the daily ministrations (Exodus 30:19 f.).... [ Continue Reading ]
_the coat the_ TUNIC (Exodus 28:39). After the tunic, the SASH seems to have been accidentally omitted: see Leviticus 8:7 (EVV. -girdle"). _the breastplate_ THE POUCH: Exodus 28:15 ff. _and_ FASTEN (it) TO _him with the_ BAND _of the ephod_ see on Exodus 28:8. The verb rendered -fasten" is formed... [ Continue Reading ]
The investiture and anointing of the high priest. The high priest is to be arrayed in the garments described in ch. 28, and then to have his head anointed. Cf. Leviticus 8:7-10 a, Leviticus 8:12 (_vv._10b 11, relating to the anointing of the _Dwelling_, altar, &c., have no parallel in Exodus 29, and... [ Continue Reading ]
_the mitre the_ TURBAN: Exodus 28:37. _the holy crown_ so Exodus 39:30; Leviticus 8:9. Better, _the holy_ DIADEM. The term does not occur in ch. 28; but it doubtless denotes the blue lace, with the gold plate in front, which was tied, in the manner of a -diadem," round the white turban of the high... [ Continue Reading ]
_the anointing oil_ see, for its ingredients and use, Exodus 30:22-33. Here only the high priest is anointed, in accordance with the expression -anointed priest," by which he is distinguished from the ordinary priests (Leviticus 4:3; Leviticus 4:5; Leviticus 4:16; Leviticus 6:22). On some other pass... [ Continue Reading ]
The investiture of the _ordinary priests_(Leviticus 8:13). These are to be dressed in their TUNICS, SASHES, and CAPS (Exodus 28:40). The words _Aaron and his sons_(which are inexact, for -Aaron" had no -cap," Exodus 28:40) are not in LXX., or in the corresponding passage, Leviticus 8:13; they are do... [ Continue Reading ]
_consecrate_ INSTALL (lit. _fill the hands of_): see on Exodus 28:41.... [ Continue Reading ]
_lay their hands upon_ to mark it formally as _their_sacrifice: see on Leviticus 1:4; and cf. (in the ritual of the sin-offering) Leviticus 4:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
The _sin_-offering (see on Leviticus 4.) for Aaron and his sons (Leviticus 8:14-17).... [ Continue Reading ]
Cf. Leviticus 4:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Hebrew regarded the blood as the seat of the -soul," or principle of life; and it was in virtue of the -soul" that was in it, that it made atonement (see Leviticus 17:11). By its application to the horns of the altar (cf. Leviticus 4:25; Leviticus 4:30; Leviticus 4:34), as in other cases to thos... [ Continue Reading ]
The parts of the sin-offering which were regularly consumed upon the altar: see Leviticus 4:8 f. On the parts in question, see more fully on Leviticus 3:4. _the fat that covereth the_ ENTRAILS] i.e., probably, what is called technically the -great omentum," a highly fatty membrane, which in ruminan... [ Continue Reading ]
When a sin-offering was offered for _priests_, or for the whole community, including the priests, its flesh was burnt (cf. Leviticus 4:11 f., Leviticus 4:21; Exodus 9:11); when it was offered for _laymen_, the flesh was eaten by the priests (Leviticus 5:13; Leviticus 6:26). Though the priests are he... [ Continue Reading ]
The _burnt_-offering (Leviticus 8:18-21), such as would naturally form part of a solemn ceremony. On the ritual, see more fully Leviticus 1.... [ Continue Reading ]
_sprinkle_ TOSS: viz. in a volume, out of a _tossing-vessel_or _basin_(see on Exodus 27:3). -Sprinkle" not only conveys an incorrect idea of the action meant, but also confuses it with an entirely different action, correctly represented by -sprinkle" (Leviticus 4:6; Leviticus 4:17; Leviticus 5:9 &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
_cut_… _into its pieces_ i.e. divide it by its joints. So Leviticus 1:6 _al._ and wash, &c. Leviticus 1:9; Leviticus 1:13. _and put them_, &c. viz. on the altar: cf. _v._18, and Leviticus 1:8 f., Leviticus 1:12 f.... [ Continue Reading ]
_a burnt offering_ see Leviticus 1. _a sweet savour a_ SOOTHING ODOUR (McNeile), lit. _an odour of rest giving_, i.e. one composing and acceptable to the Deity. It is a technical expression for the fragrant odour emitted by a burning sacrifice, and is doubtless a survival from the time when the deit... [ Continue Reading ]
The second of the two rams (_v._1) to be killed, and its blood applied to the persons of Aaron and his sons (cf. Leviticus 8:22-24).... [ Continue Reading ]
The _installation-offering_(cf. Leviticus 8:22-29). This was essentially a _peace_-offering, the special characteristic of which was that the flesh of the sacrifice was partaken of by the offerer and his friends (cf. on Exodus 20:24; and see here _vv._32 34), with modifications due to the particular... [ Continue Reading ]
The organs of hearing, handling, and walking are touched by the blood, implying that the priest is to have hallowed ears to listen to God's commands, hallowed hands to perform his sacred offices, and hallowed feet to tread lightly the sacred places, as also to walk generally in holy ways (Kn. Di. Bä... [ Continue Reading ]
_the fat, and_ read with Sam. - _the fat_, (even)": the fat tail, as Leviticus 3:9; Leviticus 7:3 shew, was _part_of the fat of the animal. So Di. (on Leviticus 8:25), Bä. &c. _the fat tail_ Leviticus 3:9; Leviticus 7:3; Leviticus 8:25; Leviticus 9:19 †; and probably to be restored in... [ Continue Reading ]
Symbolical investiture of the priests with authority to offer sacrifice. Select portions of the offerings to be placed on their open hands, waved, as they lie there, forwards and backwards before the altar, and finally burnt upon it (Leviticus 8:25-28).... [ Continue Reading ]
A _loaf_ A ROUND (_kikkâr_) corresponding to the -bread of unleavened _cakes_" of _v._2. A circular flat -cake" is meant, not what we should call a -loaf." For _cake_read PERFORATED CAKE, as _v._2. _the basket_(_v._3) _of unleavened_ CAKES _that is before_ JEHOVAH] i.e. at the entrance of the Tent... [ Continue Reading ]
_hands_ lit. _palms_; hence -upon," i.e. upon the open palms. _wave them_ Moses is to -wave" the offerings enumerated in _vv._22, 23, as they lie upon the priests" hands, before Jehovah i.e. to wave them not from right to left, but towards the altar and back. The ceremony of -waving" first in H, Lev... [ Continue Reading ]
Finally, Moses is himself the priests being not as yet fully installed, and authorized to do so themselves to take the offerings from their hands and burn them upon the altar. In Leviticus 8:28 the parts thus burnt are expressly called the _installation_(-offering). _burn them_ CONSUME _them_ IN SW... [ Continue Reading ]
The breast of the ram to be -waved" before Jehovah, and then ven to Moses (cf. Leviticus 8:29). The breast of the ordinary peace offering, after being -waved" before Jehovah, was the perquisite of the priests (Leviticus 7:30 f.); here it is given analogously to Moses (who throughout the present cere... [ Continue Reading ]
_the breast of the wave offering_ or, _the wave breast_, as this part of the peace-offering was technically called (Leviticus 7:34; Leviticus 10:14 _al._). _the thigh of the heave offering_elsewhere (Leviticus 7:34 _al.) the heave thigh_: better (see on Exodus 25:2), _the thigh of the_ CONTRIBUTION... [ Continue Reading ]
Both the breast and the thigh of the ram of installation to in perpetuity the perquisite of Aaron and his sons. The verses (which do not agree with _vv._22, 24; for the thigh which was there burnt on the altar is here to be the perquisite of the priests) are probably a later insertion, correcting _v... [ Continue Reading ]
Two parenthetical regulations: neither in Leviticus 8.... [ Continue Reading ]
_for Aaron and his sons_ in Leviticus 7:33 it is laid down that the -heave thigh" is to be in particular the perquisite of the _officiating_priest. _a due_(_ḥôḳ_; lit. _statute) for ever_ See on Exodus 27:21. _an heave offering_(twice)] A CONTRIBUTION (_v._27); something -lifted off" and separated... [ Continue Reading ]
_his sons_ as _v._30 shews, the series of _eldest_sons, in the line o direct descent, are meant. _to be anointed in them v._7. _consecrated_ INSTALLED, as _v._9.... [ Continue Reading ]
The costly and decorated vestments of the high priest to be passed on to his successors in the office. Another parenthetic regulation, if not a later insertion: the continuation of _v._26 is clearly _v._31.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Seven days_ to be explained from _v._35. _when he cometh_ i.e. _first_cometh. More clearly, _who is to come_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_seethe_ i.e. BOIL, as the word is actually rendered (in both AV. and RV.) in the parallel place, Leviticus 8:31. _its flesh_ apart from the right thigh (_v._22), and, if _v._27 form an original part of the regulation, the breast. _in a holy place_, i.e. in the court: see on Leviticus 6:16. In the... [ Continue Reading ]
Continuation of _v._26 (cf. Leviticus 8:31-32). The sacrificial meal accompanying the peace-offering; the flesh of the ram of INSTALLATION to be eaten by Aaron and his sons in the court of the Tent of Meeting. For the general principle, see Leviticus 7:15-21; and cf. on Exodus 18:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
_that is in_, &c. that remains in it after the things mentioned in _v._23 have been taken from it.... [ Continue Reading ]
_those things_ the flesh and the bread of _v._32. _atonement_ i.e. _at-one-ment, setting at one, reconciliation_, as in Shakespeare (e.g. _Rich. III._i. 3. 36). This is always the meaning of -atonement" in the Bible (as in Old English generally): the idea of _amends_or _reparation_for a fault, whic... [ Continue Reading ]
Cf. Leviticus 7:15 (P), Exodus 22:30 (H), both of a peace-offering; also above, Exodus 12:10. _consecration_ INSTALLATION (-sacrifice). See _v._31.... [ Continue Reading ]
To make it the more solemn and efficacious, the entire installation-ceremony is to be repeated every day for seven days (cf. Leviticus 8:33-35). In Lev. it is added that the priests are to remain during the whole of the seven days at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. _consecrate_ INSTALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
_offer_ Heb. _DO_ : see on Exodus 10:25. _the bullock_ A _bullock_(so the Heb.): upon independent grounds, also, the bullock of _vv._1, 10 14 can hardly be meant; for _vv._1, 10 speak only of atonement for the _priests_; and the ceremonies enjoined in _v._12 are in particular those prescribed in Lev... [ Continue Reading ]
36, 37. The _altar_to be fitted for sacred uses by atonement being made for it: the ceremony to be repeated, like the installation-ceremony, every day for seven days. The altar, as the work of human hands, was regarded as infected by a natural uncleanness, which had to be ceremonially removed before... [ Continue Reading ]
_most holy_ a technical term of the priestly phraseology, applied to many different things brought specially near to God, e.g. to the altar of burnt-offering, here and Exodus 40:10; to the altar of incense, Exodus 30:10; to the Tent of Meeting and vessels belonging to it, Exodus 30:26-29; to the mea... [ Continue Reading ]
_the altar_) the altar of burnt-offering, just referred to (_v._36 f.). _offer_(twice)] lit. _do_, as _v._36 (see on Exodus 10:25). So _v._41. _of the first year_ see on Exodus 12:5. _continually_ i.e. regularly: see on Exodus 27:20, and cf. _v._42.... [ Continue Reading ]
The _burnt-offering_, to be offered daily, morning and evening, on behalf of the community. A law in great measure verbally identical, but somewhat fuller, recurs in Numbers 28:3-8, in a table, Numbers 28-29, of public sacrifices prescribed for different days in the year. Here it interrupts the conn... [ Continue Reading ]
BETWEEN THE TWO EVENINGS] see on Exodus 12:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
The _minḥâh_, or -meal-offering" (see Leviticus 2), as it is expressly termed in the " Numbers 28:5, which in P is the regular concomitant of a burnt-offering (see Numbers 15:1-12; and cf. Numbers 28:9; Numbers 28:12-13, &c.). _a tenth part_(of an ephah)] Heb. - _issârôn_, only in P (28 times). The... [ Continue Reading ]
_do thereto_, &c. i.e. offer a similar meal-and drink-offering _for a_ SOOTHING ODOUR, &c. see on _v._18.... [ Continue Reading ]
_a continual burnt offering_ i.e. a burnt-offering recurring regularly: so Numbers 28:3; Numbers 28:6; Numbers 28:10; Numbers 28:15 _al._, Ezekiel 46:15. The same word _continual_(or _continually_) is also used often besides, esp. in P, of standing institutions of the theocracy, as Exodus 25:30 Heb.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And I_ WILL MEET THERE] There is no emph. on -there" in the Heb. In its probable original context (see on _vv._38 42), at the _altar_. the Tent] Heb. _it_, i.e., in its probable original context, the altar. _by my glory_ When He enters it in His glory: see Exodus 40:34 f.; and cf. on Exodus 16:10... [ Continue Reading ]
Conclusion to the whole body of directions (chs. 25 29). In the sanctuary thus erected, Jehovah will appear in His glory; and dwell permanently in the midst of His people. The purpose of its construction, as laid down in Exodus 25:8, is thus accomplished.... [ Continue Reading ]
_dwell among_ cf. on Exodus 25:8. _will be_ TO THEM A _God_ see on Exodus 6:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And they shall know_ viz. by the evidences of His presence in their midst (cf. Exodus 16:6; Exodus 16:12). For other instances of the expression, see on Exodus 6:7. _I am_ JEHOVAH _their God_ a closing asseverative formula: see on Exodus 6:8... [ Continue Reading ]