Leviticus 6:11

_AND THE PRIEST SHALL PUT ON HIS LINEN GARMENT, AND HIS LINEN BREECHES SHALL HE PUT UPON HIS FLESH, AND TAKE UP THE ASHES WHICH THE FIRE HATH CONSUMED WITH THE BURNT OFFERING ON THE ALTAR, AND HE SHALL PUT THEM BESIDE THE ALTAR._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

8-13 The daily sacrifice of a lamb is chiefly referred to. The priest must take care of the fire upon the altar. The first fire upon the altar came from heaven, ch. Leviticus 9:24; by keeping that up continually, all their sacrifices might be said to be consumed with the fire from heaven, in token of God's acceptance. Thus should the fire of our holy affections, the exercise of our faith and love, of prayer and praise, be without ceasing....

Verse Leviticus 6:11. _AND PUT ON OTHER GARMENTS_] The priests approached the altar in their holiest garments; when carrying the ashes, c., from the altar, they put on _other garments_, the holy garments being only used in the holy place. _CLEAN PLACE._] A place where no dead carcasses, dung, or filth of any kind was laid for the ashes were _holy_, as being the remains of the offerings made by fire unto the Lord....

EXPOSITION The following section (Leviticus 6:8 - Leviticus 7:38) is a supplement to chapter 1-6:7, containing the regulations addressed to the priests relating to the ritual of the several sacrifices. Leviticus 6:8-3 of Leviticus 6:1 contain the further ritual of the burnt sacrifice; Leviticus 6:14-3, that of the meat offering; Leviticus 6:24-3, that of the sin offerings;...

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 were put off: and so Jarchi says, they were worse than they were: it seems as if they were such that were spotted and dirty, and threadbare, almost worn out, and only fit for such sort of work as to carry out ashes: and so Maimonides w observes, that these other garments are not to be understood of common garments; but of such that are meaner in value and esteem, for both are holy garments; and, indeed, nothing belonging to the priestly office was to be performed but with the priestly garments, and they were only to be worn by the priests while in service: AND CARRY FORTH THE ASHES; when these,...

6. THE LAWS OF THE OFFERINGS Chapter S 6:8-7:38 _ 1. The law of the burnt offering (Leviticus 6:8)_ 2. The law of the meal offering (Leviticus 6:14) 3. The offering of the high priest (Leviticus 6:19) 4. The law of the sin offering (Leviticus 6:24) 5. The law of the trespass offering (Leviticus 7:1) 6. The law of the sacrifice of the peace offerings (Leviticus 7:11) After Jehovah had given

THE PRIESTS AND THE BURNT OFFERING (_cf._ ch. 1). This section, however, obviously refers specially to the continual or daily sacrifice. The fire on the altar is to be perpetual, like the Roman Vesta-fire; the victim is to rest on the hearth or plate on the top of the altar. The priest is to be clothed in linen, as conducing to bodily cleanliness and avoiding sweat (_cf._ also Exodus 28:42). When the priest carries away the ashes (_cf._ on Leviticus 4:12), he is to change his garments; the altar garments must not risk infecting common objects (_cf._ Ezekiel 44:19 *), Originally there was but one burnt offering daily (_cf._...

Leviticus 6:8 to Leviticus 7:38 [Hebrews 6:1-20; Hebrews 6:7]. The Second Part of the Law of Offerings See the analysis of this portion in Appendix I (_a_) where are given reasons for concluding that this group of laws is not by the same hand as the first, and that they have been collected by one who may or may not be identical with the compiler of P, in order to supplement Leviticus 1:1 to Leviticus 6:7. In the main they are concerned with _priestly_duties an

2. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS, CHIEFLY FOR THE PRIESTS 6:8-7:38 a. FOR BURNT OFFERINGS Leviticus 6:8-13 b. FOR MEAL OFFERINGS Leviticus 6:14-23 c. FOR SIN OFFERINGS Leviticus 6:24-30 d. FOR TRESPASS OFFERINGS Leviticus 7:1-10 e. FOR PEACE OFFERINGS Leviticus 7:11-34 f. THE DIVINE ORIGIN OF THE LAWS Leviticus 7:35-38 THE BURNT OFFERINGS 6

1-7. These vv. should be reckoned as part of Leviticus 5. The Hebrew chapter begins at Leviticus 6:8. Our chapter and verse divisions are a late invention, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries....