Numbers 15 - Introduction
_OF THE MEASURE AND QUANTITY OF FLOUR, OIL, AND WINE TO BE OFFERED: THE SABBATH-BREAKER STONED, FRINGES IN THE BORDERS OF THE GARMENTS._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
_OF THE MEASURE AND QUANTITY OF FLOUR, OIL, AND WINE TO BE OFFERED: THE SABBATH-BREAKER STONED, FRINGES IN THE BORDERS OF THE GARMENTS._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES— See note on Numbers 15:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
AN OFFERING BY FIRE— Respecting these different offerings, we refer to the notes on Leviticus.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEAT OFFERING— This Dr. Waterland renders _bread offering_ throughout the chapter.... [ Continue Reading ]
WINE— It is well remarked by Le Clerc, that as wine and oil are the most excellent liquors which the earth, by the order of Providence, produces for human use, God would have these to be offered to him in all sacrifices, that men might be continually put in mind of him from whom those blessings flow... [ Continue Reading ]
IF A STRANGER SOJOURN WITH YOU— This evidently means a stranger proselyted to the Jewish religion; and by the wisdom of this law, it is not only provided, that there should be no distinction between the natives and such proselytes, but also that there should be no innovations in the Jewish religion;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN YE EAT— Houbigant has it, _when ye shall first eat._ The meaning is, that before they began to eat their new bread they should make their offering to the Lord.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS YE DO THE HEAVE-OFFERING OF THE THRESHING FLOOR— The precise quantity of this offering is not specified, any more than that of the first fruits; but St. Jerome says, that on account of the avarice of the priests, who were wont to exact upon the people, it was limited to a sixtieth part, or, _the... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THAT THE LORD HATH COMMANDED YOU, &C.— It has been conjectured from this verse, that the laws in the present chapter were delivered towards the end of their peregrinations, and not long before their settlement in Canaan; consequently, at a time when the greater part of the mutinous generation me... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN IT SHALL BE, &C.— See Leviticus 13:21 where the law, as it is generally thought, relates to trespasses of commission, as here to those of omission. See Calmet and Outram de Sacrif. REFLECTIONS.—We have here the sacrifices for sins of ignorance, 1. Of the whole congregation: 2. Of a private per... [ Continue Reading ]
DOETH OUGHT PRESUMPTUOUSLY, &C.— In the Hebrew, _with an high hand;_ that is, in a presumptuous and premeditated manner. It signifies the action of a man who knowingly and wilfully breaks the law, and, when admonished, despises the admonition, sets the law at nought, and denies its divine authority.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHILE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, &C.— The following case of the sabbath-breaker seems evidently to be inserted as an instance of that presumptuous manner of sinning spoken of in the preceding verses: in which view, the passages mutually illustrate each other; and, to mark the connection more strong... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MAN SHALL BE SURELY PUT TO DEATH— Though Moses very well knew, that those who defiled the sabbath-day, by doing any manner of servile work upon it, should die, (Exodus 31:14; Exodus 35:2.) yet he doubted by what kind of death, and in what manner, the present offender was to suffer, whether by th... [ Continue Reading ]
BID THEM THAT THEY MAKE THEM FRINGES— Another remarkable command is given, that every Israelite should wear, at the four comers of the skirts of his outward garment, (Deuteronomy 22:12.) fringes, fastened with blue ribband, fillet, or binding. These fringes or borders were formed with indentations o... [ Continue Reading ]