Leviticus 17:8

_AND THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM, WHATSOEVER MAN THERE BE OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, OR OF THE STRANGERS WHICH SOJOURN AMONG YOU, THAT OFFERETH A BURNT OFFERING OR SACRIFICE,_ Whatsoever man ... offereth ... and bringeth it not unto the door. Before the promulgation of the law, men worshipped wherever they pleased or pitched their tents. But after that event the rites of religion could be acceptably performed only at the appointed place of worship. This restriction with respect to place was necessary as a preventive of idolatry; for it prohibited the Israelites, when at a distance, from repairing to the altars of the pagan, which were commonly in groves or fields. But in special circumstances a relaxation of this law seems to have been permitted; and in point of fact, several instances are recorded in the later historical books of sacrifices being offered elsewhere without any imputation of b...

1-9 All the cattle killed by the Israelites, while in the wilderness, were to be presented before the door of the tabernacle, and the flesh to be returned to the offerer, to be eaten as a peace-offering, according to the law. When they entered Canaan, this only continued in respect of sacrifices. The spiritual sacrifices we are now to offer, are not confined to any one place. We have now no temple or altar that sanctifies the gift; nor does the gospel unity rest only in one place, but in one heart, and the unity of the Spirit. Christ is our Altar, and the true Tabernacle; in him God dwells among men. It is in him that our sacrifices are acceptable to God, and in him only. To set up other mediators, or other altars, or other expiatory sacrifices, is, in effect, to set up other gods. And though God will graciously accept our family offerings, we must not therefore neglect attending at the...

THE STRANGERS WHICH SOJOURN - The foreigners who dwell. See Leviticus 16:29 note. OR SACRIFICE - i. e., a slaughtered offering of any kind, generally a peace-offering....

EXPOSITION This chapter finds its natural place here as the supplement of all that has gone before. The first part of the book contains the institution or regulation of the sacrificial system (chapters 1-7). This chapter, therefore, which gives injunctions as to the place where all sacrifices are to be offered, might well, as Knobel has remarked, have taken its place as Leviticus 8:1. The second part contains the institution of the hereditary priesthood (chapters 8-10). This chapter, therefore, which forbids for the future all offering of sacrifices in the open fields, and commands that they shall be brought "unto _the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation," _would still more fitly find its place after Leviticus 10:1. But the first two sections of the third

AND THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM,.... To Aaron and his sons, and to the children of Israel, as in Leviticus 17:2; WHATSOEVER MAN [THERE BE] OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL: belonging to that nation, and to any of its tribes and families, of whatever age; as a young man or an old man, as the Targum of Jonathan; or of whatsoever rank, class, and condition in life: OR OF THE STRANGERS WHICH SOJOURN AMONG YOU; that is, of the proselytes among them; not the proselytes of the gate, who were not admitted to offer sacrifice on the altar of the Lord; and if they were, they could not for non-compliance with this law be cut off from the Jewish church and commonwealth, of which they were no part, only suffered to dwell among them, but partook of none of their privileges; but this is to be understood of proselytes of righteousness, such as embraced the Jewish religion, and su

2. THE TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE BLOOD CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Concerning slain animals (Leviticus 17:1)_ 2. Concerning the eating of blood (Leviticus 17:10) This chapter needs little comment. Everything in this chapter speaks of the sanctity of the blood, what great value God, to whom life belongs, places upon the blood and with what jealous care He watches over it. The center of all is verse 11: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” Every slain animal had to bear witness to this fact. Even the hunter had to pour out the blood and cover it with dust. No blood was to be eaten. But in the New Testament we are commanded to eat spiritu

LEVITICUS 17-26. THE HOLINESS CODE (see Introd. § 2). LEVITICUS 17. RESTRICTIONS ON SACRIFICE. The whole chapter recalls P, yet there are differences of phrase (_e.g._ what man soever, Leviticus 17:3) and of tone (_e.g._ the giving of a reason for a command, Leviticus 17:11) and of contents (_e.g._ the explicit prohibition of slaughter except at the central sanctuary). Of the four sections of the chapter, each with its introductory phrase, the second is an extension of the first, the fourth of the third....

OFFERETH. offereth up. Hebrew. _alah_ App-43....

THE -LAW OF HOLINESS 1 [53] " [53] It should be noted that the -Law of Holiness" denoted by His sometimes used to mean the _whole_of chs. 17 26, sometimes the old laws embedded in these chs., and sometimes again these laws together with their hortatory settings. The leading features of this code, the probable date of its compilation, and an explanation of its origin and development, are discussed in _Introd_. The Law of Holiness, pp. 22 ff., and in App. I, pp. 167 ff. It is there shewn that laws drawn from various sources have been collected by an editor (R h [54]), and this collection has been revised by a later writer (R p [55]). The analysis of the separate Chapter s which follows will shew their composite character; in drawing the distinction between R h [56] and R p [57] the inferences that these represent two stages in the composition of the code will be further illustrated; with...

II. CONTINUANCE IN COMMUNION WITH GOD 17:1-26:46 A. HOLINESS ON THE PART OF THE PEOPLE 17:120:27 1. HOLINESS IN REGARD TO FOOD 17:1-16 a. EVERY MEAL A SACRIFICE 17:1-9 TEXT 17:1-9 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them: This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, 3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it without the camp, 4 and hath not brought it unto the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an oblation unto Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah: blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people: 5 to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may brin...