Leviticus 24:1
XXIV. (1) AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES. — The regulations about the annual festivals and the ritual connected with them are now followed by directions with regard to the daily service and its ritual.... [ Continue Reading ]
XXIV. (1) AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES. — The regulations about the annual festivals and the ritual connected with them are now followed by directions with regard to the daily service and its ritual.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. — This is the only other occasion in Leviticus on which God orders Moses to “command,” instead of imparting or communicating His will. (See Leviticus 6:1 in Hebrew, and 6:9 in English.) This command, however, occurs almost literally in Exodus 27:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITHOUT THE VAIL OF THE TESTIMONY. — That is, the second vail, which divided the holy from the most holy. (See Exodus 27:21.) IN THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION. — Better, _in the tent of meeting._ A STATUTE FOR EVER IN YOUR GENERATIONS. — Better, _a statute for ever throughout your generations... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LAMPS UPON THE PURE CANDLESTICK. — Though it would appear from Exodus 25:31 that the candlestick was called pure because it was made entirely of pure gold, yet, according to the authorities during the second Temple, the order here is that “he shall arrange the lamps after having purified and mad... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BAKE TWELVE CAKES. — The next order is about the preparation of the shewbread, and the use to be made of it. It was made in the following manner. Twenty-four seahs of wheat, which were brought as a meat offering, were beaten and ground, and after passing through twelve different sieves each fine... [ Continue Reading ]
IN TWO ROWS, SIX ON A ROW. — Better, _in two piles, six on a pile._ The table on which the cakes are here ordered to be put stood along the northern or most sacred side of the holy place. Like all the sacred furniture, except the Ark of the Covenant, it was ranged lengthways of the sanctuary. It was... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALT PUT PURE FRANKINCENSE UPON EACH ROW. — Better, _shalt place pure frankincense by each pile._ As the two piles of six cakes each measured together ten handbreadths in width, and as the length of the table was twelve handbreadths, there was a vacant space of two handbreadths left on the table fo... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY SABBATH HE SHALL SET IT IN ORDER. — That is, Aaron is to carry out these instructions in the first instance, as we are told in Leviticus 24:3, and after him, or together with him, the priests are sacredly to attend to this duty every sabbath throughout the year. Of the manner in which the shew... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT SHALL BE AARON’S AND HIS SONS’. — In accordance with this statute, the twelve cakes were divided during the second Temple between the high priest and the officiating priests, the former had six, and the latter had six, among them. THEY SHALL EAT IT IN THE HOLY PLACE. — Of the many things conn... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SON OF AN ISRAELITISH WOMAN, WHOSE FATHER WAS AN EGYPTIAN. — The name of the Israelitish woman, whose son is the subject of the narrative before us, we are afterwards told was Shelomith. She had married an Egyptian whilst she and her people were still in Egypt. Though the father’s nationality is... [ Continue Reading ]
BLASPHEMED THE NAME OF THE LORD, AND CURSED. — Better, _cursed the Name and reviled._ In accordance with the above interpretation, this happened after sentence was given against him, and when they had left the court. Being vexed with the Divine enactments which excluded him from encamping in the tri... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY PUT HIM IN WARD. — That is, to keep him in safe custody till he had been tried. In the Mosaic legislation confinement in a prison for a certain period as a punishment for an offence is nowhere enacted. THAT THE MIND OF THE LORD MIGHT BE SHEWED THEM. — Better, _that he might direct them acco... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES. — In none of these instances, however, is it stated how and where Moses made this appeal to God, whether he inquired by means of the Urim and Thummim, or otherwise. As God promised to reveal His will to Moses from the mercy-seat between the cherubim (Exodus 25:22), it... [ Continue Reading ]
BRING FORTH HIM THAT HATH CURSED. — The sentence which God now passes upon the blasphemer is that he should be conducted from prison outside the camp, where all unclean persons had to abide (Numbers 5:2), and where malefactors were executed (Hebrews 13:12). LET ALL THAT HEARD HIM LAY THEIR HANDS UPO... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOSOEVER CURSETH HIS GOD. — As Moses had to appeal to God for direction, the Lord has not only declared what should be done with this particular offender, but lays down a general law for the punishment of blasphemers. As the criminal who is the immediate occasion of this enactment is an Egyptian, d... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE THAT BLASPHEMETH THE NAME OF THE LORD. — Better, _And he that curseth the name of the Lord._ The case is, however, different when it is the God of Israel. It is henceforth to be the law that whosoever curses Jehovah is to suffer death by lapidation, which is to be inflicted upon the criminal... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE THAT KILLETH A MAN. — The enactment that in case of blaspheming no difference is to be made between a non-Israelite and Israelite, is now followed by other laws respecting murder and personal injury which have been given before (Exodus 21:12, &c.), but which are here repeated in order to show... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE THAT KILLETH A BEAST. — The law about killing a human being is now followed by the enaetments with regard to killing a beast. He who kills an animal has to make it good by giving another animal for it. The case is not the same as that legislated for in Exodus 21:33.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF A MAN CAUSE A BLEMISH. — See Exodus 21:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE THAT KILLETH A BEAST. — This verse contains a repetition of the laws enacted in Leviticus 24:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL HAVE ONE MANNER OF LAW. — Not in the case of blasphemy (see Leviticus 24:16), but in all the instances just adduced, the same penal statutes apply to the non-Israelite and stranger.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MOSES SPAKE TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. — Having recited the laws which were promulgated in consequence of the appeal made to God, Moses now calls upon the people to execute the sentence which the Lord pronounced against the blasphemer.... [ Continue Reading ]