Leviticus 9:1 ON THE EIGHTH DAY - i. e., on the first day after the week of consecration. Leviticus 9:2 A YOUNG CALF - A bull calf, which might have been what we should call a yearling ox. Leviticus 9:3 A KID OF THE GOATS - A shaggy he-goat. See Leviticus 4:23 note. Leviticus 9:6 THE GLORY OF... [ Continue Reading ]
It is to be remarked that Aaron offers no peace-offering for himself. It was enough that he should participate in the peace-offerings of the consecration Leviticus 8:31, and in the two peace-offerings about to be sacrificed for the people. His sin-offering was probably regarded not so much as a sacr... [ Continue Reading ]
Aaron did not act according to the ordinary Law Leviticus 4:5, Leviticus 4:16, but as Moses had done in the sin-offering of the consecration ceremony (Leviticus 8:15; compare also Leviticus 4:25, Leviticus 4:30, Leviticus 4:34). The probable reason of this was that he had not yet been formally intro... [ Continue Reading ]
In this first complete series of offerings made by the high priest, the sacrifices take their appointed order; first, the sin-offering to make atonement; then the burnt-offering, to signify the surrender of the body, soul and spirit to Yahweh in heaven; and lastly the peace-offering, to show forth t... [ Continue Reading ]
Aaron having completed the offerings, before he came down from the stage surrounding the altar on which the priests used to stand to officiate (see Exodus 27:8), turned toward the people, and blessed them; probably using the form which became the established one for the priests Numbers 6:24, and whi... [ Continue Reading ]
Aaron, having now gone through the cycle of priestly duties connected with the brass altar, accompanies Moses into the tent of Meeting. It was reasonable that Moses, as the divinely appointed leader of the nation, should induct Aaron into the tabernacle. BLESSED THE PEOPLE - This joint blessing of... [ Continue Reading ]
The very ancient Jewish tradition has been widely adopted that the sacred fire of the altar originated in this divine act, and that it was afterward preserved on the altar of the tabernacle until the dedication of the temple, when fire again “came down from heaven.” 2 Chronicles 7:1. But according t... [ Continue Reading ]