LAWS REGARDING VARIOUS OFFERINGS 1-16. Meal and Drink Offerings. The offerings here referred to are those presented along with other sacrifices (see on the Meal Offering, Leviticus 2), and an enactment is made regulating the proportion of meal, oil, and wine to be used along with a lamb (Numbers 15... [ Continue Reading ]
TENTH DEAL] i.e. the tenth part of an ephah, which is about a bushel. A hin is about a gallon and a half: see Exodus 16:16; Exodus 29:40. 14. STRANGER] see on Exodus 9:14. 17-21. The Offering of the First Fruits.... [ Continue Reading ]
YOUR DOUGH] Probably a coarse kind of meal: cp. Ezekiel 44:30. 22-31. Additional Laws regarding Sin Offerings (1) for the congregation (Numbers 15:22) and (2) for the individual (Numbers 15:27).... [ Continue Reading ]
PRESUMPTUOUSLY] lit. 'with a high hand, 'wilfully: seeon Leviticus 4:2. REPROACHETH THE LORD] bringeth a reproach upon the Lord: i.e. causeth His name to be dishonoured. 32-36. The Punishment of the Sabbath Breaker. This incident is designed to illustrate Numbers 15:30; Numbers 15:31. It tells how... [ Continue Reading ]
FRINGES IN THE BORDERS OF THEIR GARMENTS] RM 'twisted threads.' The original form of these is uncertain. Judging from later times, they would be, not ornamental festoons running along the edge of the garment, but tassels attached to each of its four corners by a thread of blue. A religious importanc... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE COMMANDMENTS] The Rabbis enumerated 613 commandments in the Law. It so happens that the numerical value of the letters in the Hebrew word for FRINGE (_zisith_) is exactly 600. To make this number up to 613 the tassel was made of eight threads with five knots. In this way each tassel represen... [ Continue Reading ]