_Contents_: The altar of Incense, Exodus 30:1; the maintenance of public service, Exodus 30:11; the Bronze Laver, Exodus 30:17; the composition of the holy Anointing Oil, Exodus 30:22; the composition of the Incense, Exodus 30:24; the nomination of Bĕẓal"çl and Oholiab to construct, or take the chie... [ Continue Reading ]
_incense_ Heb. _ḳeṭôreth_, -sweet smoke" (see on Exodus 29:13), which may denote, according to the context, either the -sweet smoke" rising from animal sacrifices (Psalms 66:15; and perhaps usually in the earlier literature, Deuteronomy 33:10; 1 Samuel 2:28; Isaiah 1:13), or the sweet smoke rising f... [ Continue Reading ]
The _Altar of incense_: its construction and place (_vv._1 6), and its use (_vv._7 10). 1 6 (cf. Exodus 37:25-28; Exodus 40:26). The altar of incense was to be of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, a cubit (1½ ft.) broad and long, and 2 cubits (3 ft.) high; at its upper corners were to be four horns ... [ Continue Reading ]
_the horns_, &c. see on Exodus 27:2; also, for _of one piece with it_, Exodus 25:31. The blood of the sin-offering was sprinkled upon the horns of this altar in the cases specified in Exodus 30:10; Leviticus 4:7; Leviticus 4:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
_pure gold_ see on Exodus 25:3. From being thus overlaid wholly (except at the bottom) with gold, it was also called the _golden altar_(Exodus 39:38; Exodus 40:5; Exodus 40:26; Numbers 4:11). _sides_ Heb. _walls_: so of the Bronze altar, Leviticus 1:15; Leviticus 5:9. _a crown a_ RIM _or_ MOULDING:... [ Continue Reading ]
_upon the two ribs thereof_ i.e. upon its _flanks_or sides, a common metaph. sense of -rib" in Heb. (see on Exodus 25:12). The words seem tautologous beside the following -upon the two sides of it"; either they have come in here by error, through a recollection of Exodus 27:12, or (Di.) the expressi... [ Continue Reading ]
The rings and acacia-wood poles, for the transport of the altar, as in the case of the ark (Exodus 25:12-15), the table of Presence bread (Exodus 25:26-28), and the Bronze altar (Exodus 27:4-7).... [ Continue Reading ]
Cf. Exodus 25:13; Exodus 25:28; Exodus 27:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the veil_, &c. See Exodus 26:31; Exodus 26:33. _by_ BEFORE (as Exodus 27:21 for the same Heb.) would be clearer: IN FRONT OF might then be used instead of -before" (twice). _the testimony_ i.e. the commandments written on the two tables of stone: see on Exodus 25:16. _meet with thee_ cf. Exo Exo... [ Continue Reading ]
_burn_ properly, _make to exhale_(or _make into) sweet smoke_, as Exodus 29:13 (see the note). _sweet spices_ see on _v._34. _when he dresseth the lamps_ cf. on Exodus 27:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
Incense is to be burnt upon the altar twice a day by the high priest, in the morning when the lamps are removed from the candlestick for trimming, and in the evening when they are replaced and lighted. Atonement is to be made for it once a year by the blood of the sin-offering (Leviticus 16:15-19) b... [ Continue Reading ]
_lighteth_ FIXETH ON: see on Exodus 25:37. _at even_ BETWEEN THE TWO EVENINGS, as Exodus 29:39: see on Exodus 12:6. _perpetual_ better, CONTINUAL: the expression is a standing one; see on Exodus 29:42. _before_ JEHOVAH] as Exodus 29:25, and constantly in the priestly laws.... [ Continue Reading ]
The altar is to be reserved exclusively for incense, and for incense moreover made from the authorized prescription (_v._34 ff.). _strange_ i.e. strange to the law, unauthorized; cf. - _strange_fire," Leviticus 10:1; Numbers 3:4; Numbers 26:61. Comp. on Exodus 29:33; and see _DB._iv. 623.... [ Continue Reading ]
An annual rite of atonement to be performed for it. The law presupposes Leviticus 16 (which prescribes the ceremonial of the annual Day of Atonement), and is thus later than it. Leviticus 16:16; Leviticus 16:18; Leviticus 16:20 prescribes a rite of atonement for the Holy place, the Tent of Meeting,... [ Continue Reading ]
_takest the sum_ so Numbers 1:2; Numbers 1:49. _numbered_… _numberest_ The verb means lit. to _visit_(viz. to see how many they are), i.e. to _review, muster, inspect_. So _vv._13, 14, Numbers 1:3; Numbers 1:19, and often in Nu. 1. 4, Numbers 1:26; 2 Samuel 18:1; 2 Samuel 24:2. _a ransom for his so... [ Continue Reading ]
_passeth over_, &c. viz. before the officer who took the census, _to those that are numbered_, and who stand on the other side. Cf. to -pass over" (of sheep being numbered) Leviticus 27:32; Jeremiah 33:13; and in 2 Samuel 2:15 Heb. _half_ not the usual Heb. word for -half"; in the Hex, found only i... [ Continue Reading ]
_from twenty years old and upward_ i.e. from adult age.... [ Continue Reading ]
Rich and poor are to contribute alike, for both stand in the same relation towards Jehovah.... [ Continue Reading ]
_for the service_, &c. i.e. for the maintenance of the daily worship in the Tent of Meeting, the morning and evening sacrifices, &c. The reference cannot be to the work of _erecting_the sanctuary; for (1) the injunction is general (_When thou takest the sum_, &c.), not specific (_And thou shalt take... [ Continue Reading ]
The _bronze Laver_(cf. Exodus 38:8; Exodus 40:30). This was for the priests to wash their hands and feet in, before entering into the Tent of Meeting, or offering sacrifice: it was to stand in the court, in front of the Tent of Meeting, between it and the (bronze) altar. The shape and dimensions of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt also make_ Heb. AND _thou shalt make_. _brass_ BRONZE or COPPER, as always: see on Exodus 25:3. The metal, according to Exodus 38:8, was obtained from the mirrors of the women who -served in the host" (see the note). _base_ some kind of pedestal, upon which it rested.... [ Continue Reading ]
_that they die not_ cf. Exodus 28:35, with the note.... [ Continue Reading ]
_a statute for ever_, &c. see on Exodus 12:14, and Exodus 28:43. 22 33 (cf. Exodus 37:29 a). The _holy Anointing Oil_. An aromatic oil to be prepared, by mixing, in stated proportions, olive oil with (probably) the essences of myrrh, cinnamon, sweet-smelling cane, and cassia; and the Tent of Meetin... [ Continue Reading ]
_Moreover_ Heb. AND.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Take thou also_ AND THOU (emph.), _take_: cf. on Exodus 27:20. _spices_ such as were brought to Solomon by the Queen of Sheba, and others (1 Kings 10:2; 1 Kings 10:10; 1 Kings 10:15), and prized by the Hebrews (Song of Solomon 4:10; Song of Solomon 4:14; Song of Solomon 4:16;... [ Continue Reading ]
_cassia_ Ezekiel 27:19 †: Heb. _ḳiddâh_, prob. the same as the κιττώ, spoken of by Diosc. (i. 12) as one species of κασία; Vulg. _cassia_. The word in Psalms 45:8 † is different (_ḳeẓî-ôth_, things _scraped off_, i.e. scraped or powdered bark); but doubtless denotes either the same or a kindred subs... [ Continue Reading ]
_it_ i.e. the olive oil of _v._24, by mixing it viz. with the other ingredients specified. -According to the Rabbis, the essences of the different spices were first extracted, and then mixed with the oil" (Kn.). _a perfume_, &c. lit. _a perfume of perfumery, the work of the perfumer_(like the -work... [ Continue Reading ]
The effect of the anointing is to _sanctify_the objects to which the process is applied (cf. Exodus 29:36). _most holy_ See on Exodus 29:37. _shall_ BECOME _holy_ i.e. be forfeited to the sanctuary, or, if a person (marg.), be given over to the Deity, that He may deal with him as He pleases. See f... [ Continue Reading ]
_Aaron and his sons_ In Exodus 29:7 (cf. Leviticus 8:12), 29 anointing is prescribed only for Aaron (the high priest), and his successors in the same office: and that originally it was only the high priest who was anointed seems to follow from the fact that he is called distinctively -the anointed p... [ Continue Reading ]
The oil thus prepared to be reserved exclusively for the sacred purposes thus specified.... [ Continue Reading ]
_throughout your generations_ See on Exodus 12:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
_of man_ i.e. of ordinary men (cf. Psalms 82:7; Isaiah 8:1; Hosea 6:7 [2nd marg.]). _poured_ POURED FOR ANOINTING, viz. for the toilet; the Heb. word (_sûk_) being the one used distinctively in this connexion (footnote, p. 337).... [ Continue Reading ]
_a stranger_ i.e. one not authorized to be anointed with it = one not of the seed of Aaron: cf. on Exodus 29:33. _shall be cut off_, &c. a formula signifying emphatically the Divine disapproval: see on Exodus 12:15. _from his_ FATHER'S KIN] The word, though it is externally the same as the ordinary... [ Continue Reading ]
_sweet spices_ In the Heb. one word, _sammim_(plur.), from the same root as the Arab. _shamma_, to -smell," not the one rendered -spices" (_besâmim_) in _v._3, and, to judge from Exodus 25:6 (- _besâmim_for …, and for the incense of _sammim_"), a narrower term than that: used exclusively (but only i... [ Continue Reading ]
The holy _Incense_(cf. Exodus 37:29 b). Incense to be made, of, four specified ingredients, mixed together in equal proportions, and tempered with salt, for use upon the altar of incense (_vv._7 f.). Incense of the same composition to be used for no other purpose.... [ Continue Reading ]
_a perfume_, THE WORK _of the perfumer_ as _v._25. _seasoned with salt_ SALTED (cf. Sir 49:1 Heb.). In spite of the Versions (-mixed"; and so RVm. = AV. _tempered together_[without -with salt"]), this is the only rend. which philology permits (so Ges. Di. Bä. &c.). - _Seasoned_with salt" is, howeve... [ Continue Reading ]
_beat some of it very small_ cf. Leviticus 16:12 -incense beaten small." The ingredients named in _v._34 were mixed together, and then apparently melted down into a solid mass: small portions of this were broken off, from time to time, and beaten into a powder, which was then placed ready for use, e... [ Continue Reading ]
_thereof_ i.e. of the incense described in _v._34.... [ Continue Reading ]
Incense of this composition to be used exclusively in the service of Jehovah. Cf. _v._32 f.... [ Continue Reading ]
_cut off from his_ FATHER'S KIN] See on _v._33. The use of incense in religious ceremonies is very widespread, and many different substances have been used for the purpose woods, barks, dried flowers, grasses, seeds, resins, gums (_Enc. Brit._Exodus 9, xii. 718). On Egyptian monuments the reference... [ Continue Reading ]