THE -LAW OF HOLINESS 1 [53] " [53] It should be noted that the -Law of Holiness" denoted by His sometimes used to mean the _whole_of chs. 17 26, sometimes the old laws embedded in these chs., and sometimes again these laws together with their hortatory settings. The leading features of this code,... [ Continue Reading ]
_killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat_ The animals mentioned are those which are suitable for sacrifice, -of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord" (Leviticus 7:25), and the verb, though used of sacrificial slaughter (Leviticus 1:5; Leviticus 9:8, etc.), also has the sense of ordinary ki... [ Continue Reading ]
_the tent of meeting … the tabernacle_ For the significance of the double indication of place which suggests a combination of two sources see p. 88.... [ Continue Reading ]
The whole _v._appears to be an expansion on the part of R p [62]. See p. 99. [62] A Reviser, who, probably after that collection had been combined with the Priestly Code, introduced further elements from that Code. _the open field_ In contrast to the city. For the expression cp. Leviticus 14:7; Le... [ Continue Reading ]
_he-goats_ satyrs, as R.V. mg., i.e. demons of the desert believed to take the shape of goats, like the satyrs of classical mythology. For the survival of Canaanitish rites, as practised by Israelites, cp. Exodus 34:15-16; Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 34:14; Isaiah 57:6 (with note in Camb. Bible), Isaiah 65... [ Continue Reading ]
_of the strangers_ See p. 99.... [ Continue Reading ]
_his people_ Although the EVV render -his people" in Leviticus 17:4_; Leviticus 17:9_, the Heb. noun is plural in Leviticus 17:9, and should there be translated his father's kin. See _Intr. to Pent._App. II. (25), pp. 215 f. See also Skinner (_Cent. Bible_) on 2 Kings 23:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
The prohibition (cp. Leviticus 17:12) is found also in Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 12:16; Deuteronomy 12:23-24; Deuteronomy 15:23. It is regarded as having been obligatory from the beginning (Genesis 9:4). The word -eat" is probabl [ Continue Reading ]
The reason for avoiding blood is given. _the life … your souls … the life_ The Heb. word _néphesh_is the same in the three cases. _it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life_ i.e. the life which it contains, not as A.V. -maketh atonement for the soul.... [ Continue Reading ]
_of the children of Israel_ The Samaritan text and certain of Kennicott's Heb. MSS. read -house" here, as in Leviticus 17:3_; Leviticus 17:5; Leviticus 17:10_. The LXX. (see above) have -sons" in all four places, but the Vulg. follows MT. _the strangers that sojourn among them_ Foreigners are here m... [ Continue Reading ]
Directions how the blood of beasts or fowls taken in hunting is to be dealt with.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Leviticus 7:24; Leviticus 22:8; Deuteronomy 14:21 allowed the -stranger" to eat that which -dieth of itself.... [ Continue Reading ]
See on Leviticus 19:26.... [ Continue Reading ]