Exodus 29:33

_AND THOU SHALT KILL THE BULLOCK BEFORE THE LORD, BY THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

1-37 Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed with the Spirit, whence he is called Messiah, the Christ; clothed with glory and beauty; sanctified by his own blood; made perfect, or consecrated through sufferings, Hebrews 2:10. All believers are spiritual priests, to offer spiritual sacrifices, 1 Peter 2:5, washed in the blood of Christ, and so made to our God priests, Revelation 1:5; Revelation 1:6. They also are clothed with the beauty of holiness, and have received the anointing,...

Verse Exodus 29:33. _BUT A STRANGER SHALL NOT EAT_ THEREOF] That is, no person who was not of the _family of Aaron _- no _Israelite_, and not even a _Levite_....

The consecration of the priests. See the notes to Lev. 8–9. Exodus 29:4 DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE - Entrance of the tent. See Leviticus 8:3. Exodus 29:27 The “waving” was the more solemn process of the two: it was a movement several times repeated, while “heaving” was simply a “lifting up” once. Exodus 29:33 A STRANGER - One of another family, i. e. in this case, one not of the family of Aaron....

EXPOSITION EXODUS 29:1 THE CONSECRATION OF THE PRIESTS. From the description of the priestly attire, the Divine Law-giver passed to the form of priestly consecration, whereof investiture in the "holy garments" was a part. The ceremony of consecration was to consist of four things:— 1. Ablution; 2. Investiture; 3. Chrism or Anointing with oil; and 4. Sacrifice. In the directions given, we have, first, the preparation of the offerings (Exodus 29:1); secondly, directions for the ablutions (Exodus 29:4); thirdly,

AND THEY SHALL EAT THOSE THINGS WHEREWITH THE ATONEMENT WAS MADE,.... For the sins of Aaron and his sons, for they were men of infirmity, and needed sacrifice for sin themselves; and herein Christ their antitype excelled them, that he had no sin of his own, and needed not to offer first for them, and then for the sins of others, as Aaron and his sons, the types of him, did; and their eating of the sacrifice for atonement points at the receiving of the atonement of Christ's sacrifice by faith, and the enjoyment of it and the blessings following on it: TO CONSECRATE AND TO SANCTIFY THEM; that they might be filled and fitted, and set apart and devoted to the office of the priesthood, and minister in it: BUT A STRANGER SHALL NOT EAT [THEREOF], BECAUSE THEY ARE HOLY; meaning not one of another nation, but of another family, though an Israelite; the Targum of Jonathan renders it, a profane a...

ATONEMENT Hebrew, Kaphar, "to cover." The English word "atonement" (at-one-ment) is not a translation of the Hebrew, Kaphar, but a translator's interpretation. According to Scripture the legal sacrifice "covered" the offerer's sin and secured the divine forgiveness; according to the translators it made God and the sinner at-one. But the Old Testament Sacrifices did not at-one the sinner and God. "It is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins." (Hebrews 10:4). The Israelite's offering implied confession of sin and of its due desert, death; and God "covered" (passed over," (Romans 3:25) his sin, in anticipation of Christ's sacrifice, which did, finally, "put away" the sins "done aforetime in the forbearance of God."; ...

CHAPTER 29 THE CONSECRATION OF THE PRIESTS _ 1. Aaron and his sons wash with water (Exodus 29:1)_ 2. Aaron clothed (Exodus 29:5) 3. The consecration (Exodus 29:8) 4. The food of the priests (Exodus 29:26) 5. God's meeting place (Exodus 29:36) In Leviticus we find the record of their consecration, which is linked there with the offerings. Here it is only the instruction, while in Leviticus we find the act of the consecration. We touch upon it briefly; in Leviticus, we shall follow it a little closer. First they

EXODUS 29. P (Exodus 29:21; Exodus 29:38 later). CONSECRATION OF THE PRIESTHOOD (_cf._ Leviticus 8). The ritual of consecration is described at length. For the various sacrifices, _see_ the appropriate sections of Leviticus 1-7*, which belong to an older stratum of P, and are presupposed throughout. (I.) The materials for the sacrificial ceremonial include a bullock and two rams, bread of unleavened cakes, perforated cakes (perforations are still made in the Passover cakes), and large thin wafers, all unleavened, and to be brought in a basket (Exodus 29:1). (II.) All the priests to be consecrated must be bathed ...

ATONEMENT. The first occurrence _of_ the English word. The Hebrew kaphar, to cover, gives the essential meaning, as shown in its first occurrence, Genesis 6:14, where it is rendered "pitch [it]". See notes on Genesis 32:20; Psalms 32:1. Hence used of the mercy-seat. See, note on Exodus 25:17. The English "at-one-ment" has no connection whatever with the Hebrew word _kaphar._ CONSECRATE. See on Exodus 28:41....