INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 6 This chapter treats of the trespass offering for sins committed knowingly and wilfully, Leviticus 6:1 and of the law of the burnt offering, and of cleansing the altar of burnt offering, and keeping the fire burning on it continually, Leviticus 6:8 and of the meat offerin... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES,.... Continuing his speech with him, for the same law of the trespass offering is still discoursed of, only with respect to different persons: SAYING: as follows.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF A SOUL SIN, AND COMMIT A TRESPASS AGAINST THE LORD,.... All sin is against the Lord, contrary to his nature and will, and a transgression of his law; but some sins are more apparently so than others, and against which he expresses greater indignation and abhorrence, being attended also with very... [ Continue Reading ]
OR HAVE FOUND THAT WHICH WAS LOST, AND LIETH CONCERNING IT,.... Who having found anything lost, at once concludes it his own, and converts it to his own use, never inquiring after the proprietor of it, or taking any method to get knowledge of him, and restore it to him; but so far from that, being s... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN IT SHALL BE, BECAUSE HE HATH SINNED AND IS GUILTY,.... Owns his guilt through remorse of conscience, and makes a confession of it; or otherwise, upon conviction, without such confession he was to pay double, see Exodus 22:7 whereas, in this case it is only ordered, THAT HE SHALL RESTORE THAT W... [ Continue Reading ]
OR ALL THAT ABOUT WHICH HE HATH SWORN FALSELY,.... In all and each of the above cases, in which he had committed a trespass and denied it, and to the denial adds a false oath, and yet after all acknowledges it: HE SHALL EVEN RESTORE IT IN THE PRINCIPAL; whatsoever he has embezzled, or cheated anoth... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SHALL BRING HIS TRESPASS [OFFERING] UNTO THE LORD,.... That is, to the tabernacle of the Lord, to the altar of the Lord in it, and to his priest ministering therein, as it follows: A RAM WITHOUT BLEMISH OUT OF THE FLOCK, WITH THY ESTIMATION, FOR A TRESPASS [OFFERING] UNTO THE PRIEST; the sam... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PRIEST SHALL MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR HIM BEFORE THE LORD,.... By offering the ram he brought, by which a typical, but not real atonement was made; for the blood of bulls and goats, of sheep and rams, could not take away sin; but as they were types of Christ, and led to him, the Lamb of God tha... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES,.... It maybe after some intermission, or pause made; for some here begin a new chapter, and indeed a new section here begins in the Hebrew copies: SAYING; as follows:... [ Continue Reading ]
COMMAND AARON AND HIS SONS,.... Who were nominated, selected, and appointed to the office, though not yet consecrated to it and invested with it, see Leviticus 8:1 SAYING, THIS [IS] THE LAW OF THE BURNT OFFERING; of the daily sacrifice, morning and evening: IT [IS] THE BURNT OFFERING, BECAUSE OF,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PRIEST SHALL PUT ON HIS LINEN GARMENT,.... "His measure" q, as the word signifies, a garment that was just the measure of his body, and exactly fitted it; it was a sort of a shirt, which he wore next his body, and reached down to his feet; and in this he always officiated, and was an emblem... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SHALL PUT OFF HIS GARMENTS,.... Those before mentioned, he is said to put on: AND PUT ON OTHER GARMENTS; not common garments or lay-habits, what the priests wore when they were not on duty; for, as Ben Gersom says, these were priestly garments, though meaner than the first, or those that wer... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE FIRE UPON THE ALTAR SHALL BE BURNING IN IT, IT SHALL NOT BE PUT OUT,.... There were three fires, or piles of wood for fire continually; the first was a large one, on which the daily sacrifice was burnt; the second less, and called the pile of the incense, because they took from it fire in a... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIRE SHALL EVER BE BURNING UPON THE ALTAR,.... This was what first fell from heaven, Leviticus 9:24 and which in after ages was maintained by constant fuel put unto it, there being every day burnt offerings upon it; which was an emblem of the love of Christ to his people, which is ever in a flam... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THIS [IS] THE LAW OF THE MEAT OFFERING,.... Or the rules to be observed concerning that, for which, though directions are given, Leviticus 2:1, c. yet is here repeated with some additions to it: THE SONS OF AARON SHALL OFFER IT BEFORE THE LORD being brought unto them by the children of Israel:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SHALL TAKE OF IT HIS HANDFUL,.... Leviticus 2:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE REMAINDER THEREOF SHALL AARON AND HIS SONS EAT,.... What quantity of fine flour the meat offering consisted of is not said; very probably it was left to the offerer to bring what he would, since it was a freewill offering: [WITH] UNLEAVENED [BREAD] SHALL IT BE EATEN IN THE HOLY PLACE; or ra... [ Continue Reading ]
IT SHALL NOT BE BAKED WITH LEAVEN,.... Which, as it was a type of Christ, may denote his sincerity both in doctrine, life, and conversation; and as it may respect the offerer, may signify his uprightness and integrity, and his being devoid of hypocrisy and insincerity: I HAVE GIVEN IT [UNTO THEE FO... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE MALES AMONG THE CHILDREN OF AARON SHALL EAT OF IT,.... And they only, for none but they might eat in the holy place, and therefore these holy things that were to be eaten there, were only eaten by them; what might be eaten by the priests in their own houses, their wives and daughters ate of,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES,.... At the same time the above laws were delivered: SAYING; as follows.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS THE OFFERING OF AARON AND HIS SONS,.... That is, of such of them as succeeded him in the high priesthood, as appears from Leviticus 6:22 so Aben Ezra, of him, or of one of his sons in his room; though some think the common priests offered the following oblation at the time of their initiatio... [ Continue Reading ]
IN A PAN IT SHALL BE MADE WITH OIL,.... With oil olive, as the Targum of Jonathan; the pan in which it was made was a vessel that had no covering, nor hollow in the middle, nor any lip or edge, but was a plane, and extended, and the dough made on it was hard and stiff, that it might not run off r. I... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PRIEST OF HIS SONS THAT IS ANOINTED IN HIS STEAD SHALL OFFER IT,.... The successor of the high priest: IT IS A STATUTE FOR EVER UNTO THE LORD; which he by an everlasting statute appointed to be offered to him by every high priest, until the Messiah should come: IT SHALL BE WHOLLY BURNT; of... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR EVERY MEAT OFFERING FOR THE PRIEST SHALL BE WHOLLY BURNT,.... Wherefore the priest that offered this for the high priest got nothing by it: he served him gratis: IT SHALL NOT BE EATEN; neither by himself, nor any other priest. The priests by eating the offerings of the people bore their iniquit... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES,.... Continued his discourse with him: SAYING; as follows.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPEAK UNTO AARON, AND TO HIS SONS, SAYING, THIS [IS] THE LAW OF THE SIN [OFFERING],.... Or the rules to be observed concerning that, besides what had been already delivered in Leviticus 4:1: IN THE PLACE WHERE THE BURNT OFFERING IS KILLED SHALL THE SIN [OFFERING] BE KILLED BEFORE THE LORD; and that... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRIEST THAT OFFERETH IT FOR SIN SHALL EAT IT,.... Thereby signifying that he bore the sin of the person that brought the offering, and made atonement for it; as a type of Christ, who bore the sins of his people in his own body on the tree, and made satisfaction for them; see Leviticus 10:17. Thi... [ Continue Reading ]
WHATSOEVER SHALL TOUCH THE FLESH THEREOF SHALL BE HOLY,.... None but holy persons, such as were devoted to holy services, even the priests and their sons, might touch and eat of the flesh of the sin offering: all that did so were sacred persons; and even what were used in eating it, dishes and knive... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE EARTHEN VESSEL WHEREIN IT IS SODDEN SHALL BE BROKEN,.... That being porous, the liquor in which the sin offering was boiled might soak into it, and the smell of it be retained, and therefore, as such vessels were not very costly, they were ordered to be broken; but where the broken pieces we... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THE MALES AMONG THE PRIESTS SHALL EAT THEREOF,.... As of the meat offerings, Leviticus 6:18 and this shows that not the single priest that offered only ate of it, Leviticus 6:26 but his male children, and not those only, but those of other priests then upon duty, or in the court: IT [IS] MO... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NO SIN [OFFERING], WHEREOF [ANY] OF THE BLOOD IS BROUGHT INTO THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION TO RECONCILE [WITHAL] IN THE HOLY PLACE, SHALL BE EATEN,.... Every offering, and so every sin offering, was killed in the court of the tabernacle, on the north side of the altar; and the blood of som... [ Continue Reading ]