Exodus 24:1,2
Are placed by some with great probability between Exodus 24:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Are placed by some with great probability between Exodus 24:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWELVE PILLARS - As the altar was a symbol of the presence of Yahweh, so these twelve pillars represented the presence of the Twelve tribes with whom He was making the covenant.... [ Continue Reading ]
YOUNG MEN OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL - See Exodus 19:22; Exodus 28:1; Leviticus 1:5. BURNT OFFERINGS ... PEACE OFFERINGS - The burnt offerings Leviticus 1 figured the dedication of the nation to Yahweh, and the peace offerings Leviticus 3 their communion with Yahweh and with each other.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SPRINKLED - Rather, he cast. See Leviticus 1:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT - See Exodus 20:22 note. The people had to repeat their assent to the book of the covenant before the blood was thrown upon them. Compare 2 Kings 23:2, 2 Kings 23:21; 2 Chronicles 34:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
The blood which sealed the covenant was the blood of burnt offerings and peace offerings. The sin-offering Leviticus 4 had not yet been instituted. That more complicated view of human nature which gave to the sin-offering its meaning, had yet to be developed by the law, which was now only receiving... [ Continue Reading ]
It would appear that Moses, Aaron with his two sons, and seventy of the elders Exodus 19:7 went a short distance up the mountain to eat the meal of the covenant (compare Genesis 31:43), which must have consisted of the flesh of the peace offerings Exodus 24:5. Joshua accompanied Moses as his servant... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SAW THE GOD OF ISRAEL - As they ate the sacrificial feast, the presence of Yahweh was manifested to them with special distinctness. In the act of solemn worship, they perceived that He was present with them, as their Lord and their Deliverer. It is idle to speculate on the mode of this reve... [ Continue Reading ]
HE LAID NOT HIS HAND - i. e. He did not strike them. It was believed that a mortal could not survive the sight of God Exodus 33:20; Genesis 32:30; Judges 6:22; Judges 13:22 : but these rulers of Israel were permitted to eat and drink, while they were enjoying in an extraordinary degree the sense of... [ Continue Reading ]
Many Jews understand the “tables of stone” to denote the Ten Commandments; “a law,” the law written in the Pentateuch; and the “commandments” (or “the commandment”), the oral or traditional law which was in after ages put into writing in the Mishna and the Gemara. But it is more probable that the Te... [ Continue Reading ]
During this period of forty days, and the second period when the tables were renewed, Moses neither ate bread nor drank water. Compare marginal references. In like manner, Elijah fasted for forty days, when he visited the same spot 1 Kings 19:8. The two who met our Saviour on the Mount of Transfigur... [ Continue Reading ]