Numbers 15:1
The contents of the next five chapters must apparently be referred to the long period of wandering to which Numbers 14:33 the people were condemned.... [ Continue Reading ]
The contents of the next five chapters must apparently be referred to the long period of wandering to which Numbers 14:33 the people were condemned.... [ Continue Reading ]
To the Israelites of the younger generation is conveyed the hope that the nation should yet enter into the land of promise. The ordinances that follow are more likely to have been addressed to adults than to children; and we may therefore assume that at the date of their delivery the new generation... [ Continue Reading ]
The meat-offering is treated in Leviticus 2. The drink-offering Exodus 29:40; Leviticus 23:13, hitherto an ordinary accessory to the former, is now prescribed forevery sacrifice.... [ Continue Reading ]
The general principle which includes the ordinance of this and the three verses following is laid down in Exodus 22:29; Exodus 23:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
DOUGH - “Coarse meal” Nehemiah 10:37; Ezekiel 44:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
The heavy punishments which had already overtaken the people might naturally give rise to apprehensions for the future, especially in view of the fact that on the approaching entrance into Canaan the complete observance of the Law in all its details would become imperative on them. To meet such appr... [ Continue Reading ]
Moses mentions here, as is his wont (compare Leviticus 24:10), the first open transgression and its punishment in order to exemplify the laws which he is laying down. The offence of Sabbath-breaking was one for which there could be no excuse. This law at least might be observed even in the wildernes... [ Continue Reading ]
Death had indeed been assigned as the penalty Exodus 31:14; Exodus 35:2; but it had not been determined how that death was to be inflicted.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THEY PUT UPON THE FRINGE OF THE BORDERS A RIBBAND OF BLUE - Reader that they add to the fringes of the borders (or corners) a thread of blue (compare the marginal references). These fringes are considered to be of Egypttian origin. The ordinary outer Jewish garment was a quadrangular piece of c... [ Continue Reading ]