See Leviticus 5:14 note. In Leviticus 7:2 “sprinkle” should rather be cast Leviticus 1:5. All the details regarding the parts put on the altar are repeated for each kind of sacrifice, because the matter was one of paramount importance.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SKIN OF THE BURNT OFFERING - It is most likely that the skins of the sin-offering and the trespass-offering also fell to the lot of the officiating priest.... [ Continue Reading ]
See the marginal references.... [ Continue Reading ]
See Leviticus 3:1. What is here added, relates to the accompanying מנחה _mı̂nchāh_ Leviticus 2:1, the classification of peace-offerings into: (1) thank-offerings, (2) vow-offerings and (3) voluntary-offerings, and the conditions to be observed by the worshipper in eating the flesh.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR A THANKSGIVING - i. e., a thank-offering for mercies received.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HIS OFFERING - The leavened bread was a distinct offering.... [ Continue Reading ]
OUT OF THE WHOLE OBLATION - Rather, out of each offering. That is, one loaf or cake out of each kind of meat-offering was to be a heave-offering Leviticus 7:32 for the officiating priest. According to Jewish tradition, there were to be ten cakes of each kind of bread in every thank-offering. The oth... [ Continue Reading ]
The vow-offering appears to have been a peace-offering vowed upon a certain condition; the voluntary-offering, one offered as the simple tribute of a devout heart rejoicing in peace with God and man offered on no external occasion (compare Leviticus 22:17).... [ Continue Reading ]
It was proper that the sacrificial meat should not be polluted by any approach to putrefaction. But the exclusion of a mean-spirited economy may further have furnished the ground for the distinction between the thank-offerings and the others. The most liberal distribution of the meat of the offering... [ Continue Reading ]
UNCLEAN BEAST - that is, carrion of any kind. See Leviticus 11. SHALL BE CUT OFF - See the Exodus 31:14 note.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is emphatically addressed to the people. They were not to eat in their own meal what belonged to the altar of Yahweh, nor what was the perquisite of the priests. See Leviticus 7:33.... [ Continue Reading ]
Compare Leviticus 11:39.... [ Continue Reading ]
NO MANNER OF BLOOD - See Leviticus 17:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAVE-OFFERING ... HEAVE-OFFERING - The latter appears to be used (like קרבן _qorbân_, Leviticus 1:2) for offerings in general. Waving (a moving to and fro, repeated several times) or heaving (a lifting up once) the offering was a solemn form of dedicating a thing to the use of the sanctuary.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PORTION OF THE ANOINTING ... - Rather, the appointed share of Aaron and of his sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THE CONSECRATIONS - That is, of the sacrifices which were to be offered in the consecration of the priests. See the marginal references.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILDERNESS OF SINAI - Compare Exodus 19:1.... [ Continue Reading ]