Leviticus 22:19

_YE SHALL OFFER AT YOUR OWN WILL A MALE WITHOUT BLEMISH, OF THE BEEVES, OF THE SHEEP, OR OF THE GOATS._ Ye shall offer at your own will - rather, to your being accepted. A MALE WITHOUT BLEMISH. This law (Leviticus 1:3) is founded on a sense of natural propriety; and hence, the reasonableness of God's strong remonstrance with the worldly-minded Jews (Malachi 1:8). 23. THAT MAYEST THOU OFFER ... The passage should be rendered thus. 'If thou offer it either for a free-will offering or for a vow, it shall not be accepted.' This sacrifice being required to be "without blemish," symbolically implied that the people of God were to dedicate themselves wholly, with sincere purpose of heart; and its being required to be 'perfect to be accepted,' led them typically to Him with

19._“Unto your acceptance.” _(294) Some indeed translate this “at your own will,” but the context forbids it; for Moses sometimes uses the word רצה, _ratseh, _which means “accepted,” in the same sense, and sometimes רצון, _ratson, _which can only be referred to God’s favor, which is commonly called His “good pleasure.” Again, as he here uses the compound word לרצנכם; _leretsoncem, _so he soon afterwards adds לרצון לכם, _leretson lecem, _where he declares that a blemished sacrifice would not be “unto their acceptance,” because it would be rejected by God. The sum therefore is, that if they desire their oblations to be approved by God, they must beware that there be no defect in them. Still, if any one chooses to think that God’s gratuitous favor is expr

YE SHALL OFFER AT YOUR OWN WILL A MALE - Rather, That it may be accepted (so Leviticus 22:29) for you it shall be a male. See Leviticus 1:3. It is the same phrase as in Leviticus 22:20, Leviticus 22:27....

EXPOSITION This chapter, which is a continuation of Leviticus 21:1, (1) commands that the ceremonially defiled priest shall not officiate or partake of the sacrificial offerings; (2) declares who may and who may not partake of the priests' portions of the sacrifices; (3) orders that every sacrificial victim be unblemished. LEVITICUS 22:1 In the previous chapter, the priests have been commanded to avoid occasions of ceremonial defilement, but there are times in which they must be unclean. At these times they are here instructed that they must abstain from their priestly functions, and not even eat of the priests' portions until they have been cleansed. The command to Aaron and to

YE SHALL OFFER AT YOUR OWN WILL,.... For vows and freewill offerings were at their own option, and depended on their own will and pleasure, and when offered should be with a willing mind, and from their whole heart: or "for good will to you"; as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; or for gracious, acceptation, that is, that they might be well pleasing to God, and acceptable in his sight, so Jarchi; in order to which the following direction was strictly to be observed: A MALE WITHOUT BLEMISH, OF THE BEEVES, OF THE SHEEP, AND OF THE GOATS; bullocks, sheep, and goats, were the only sorts of beasts, out of which sacrifices were taken, and those that were for burnt offerings were always to be males, and unblemished, see Leviticus 1:3; but for other offerings, as peace offerings and sin offerings, females might be used, see...

CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Care to be exercised in holy things (Leviticus 22:1)_ 2. Care in the enforcement of the law of offerings (Leviticus 22:17) Uncleanness such as mentioned in the first part of the chapter prohibited the partaking of holy things. Strangers who did not belong to the priestly house and even the married daughter of the priest, not living in the priestly household, were not permitted to eat of the offering of the holy things. Holy things have to be used in a reverent and holy way. The same principle holds good in the New Testament. We may well think here of the Lord's table. Read 1 Corinthians 11:23. Coming to the Lord's table to remember Him requires self-judg

CONDITIONS TO BE SATISFIED BY THE VICTIMS in the case of certain sacrifices. This set of rules is given to Aaron and his sons as containing guidance for the priests-' examination of the animals. For vows and freewill offerings (Leviticus 1-3) the victim is to be a male, without blemish. In the case of a peace offering, which is to accomplish a vow or freewill offering (un-mentioned in Leviticus 3), the sex of the animal is not mentioned, but certain blemishes are specified. Malformations are allowed in the case of freewill offerings, but not of vows, which are of the nature of a debt. Castration renders an animal unfit for sacrifice, even if the operation had been performed before it came into Hebrew hands; it is a destruction (RV corruption) of its true nature....

AT YOUR OWN WILL. for your acceptance. So rendered in verses: Leviticus 22:20; Leviticus 22:21; Leviticus 22:25; Leviticus 22:27. See note on Leviticus 1:3. For this kind of offering, see note on Leviticus 7:15; Leviticus 7:16....

_Directions as to the quality of offerings_ This passage retains clear signs of a remarkably composite character. Leviticus 22:17 _a_indicate (-unto Aaron, and to his sons," -unto all etc.") that what follows is a blending of directions referring to priests and to the people. But further, Leviticus 22:21 presents what is virtually a repetition of the directions in Leviticus 22:18, while the differences in phraseology between the two point to diversity of origin. We notice further that the classes of offerings dealt with differ, viz. Burnt-Offerings and Peace-Offerings respectively, while each of these have the same sub-divisions, i.e. Vows and Freewill-Offerings, the former passage making no refere

YE SHALL OFFER AT YOUR OWN WILL A MALE WITHOUT BLEMISH— Laws are next given to provide for the perfection of the sacrifices, as well as of the sacrificers. Upon this head, we refer to the last note of the foregoing chapter, The _strangers in Israel,_ Leviticus 22:18 signify the proselytes of the gate, such as had embraced the Mosaic law. _At your own will_ might be rendered more consistently with the former verse, _for your acceptance,_ or _to be accepted;_ as it is rendered in the 21st verse, and by several of the ancient versions. The same attention to the perfection of victims was found among the heathens: they thought that unworthy to be offered to their gods, which was not excellent and complete in its kind. "No lame animal is to be sacrificed," says the Greek scholiast on Aristophanes; "and, in general, nothing must be offered to the gods, but what is sound