Leviticus 6:9

_COMMAND AARON AND HIS SONS, SAYING, THIS IS THE LAW OF THE BURNT OFFERING: IT IS THE BURNT OFFERING, BECAUSE OF THE BURNING UPON THE ALTAR ALL NIGHT UNTO THE MORNING, AND THE FIRE OF THE ALTAR SHALL BE BURNING IN IT._ Command Aaron and his sons. In this passage Moses received instructions more definite and minute than the preceding regulations respecting the sacrifices, to be delivered to the priests respecting their official duties in the various kinds of sacrificial offerings that were to be presented; and, first, the burnt offering х_ HAA`OLAAH _ (H5930)] - the sacrifice which went up in smoke (see the note at Genesis 8:20). The daily service which is here referred to (see the note at Exodus 29:38;...

9._Command Aaron and his sons. _He more distinctly explains what might have appeared to be omitted; nor is it without reason that he carefully enters into these full details, for since God prefers obedience to all sacrifices, he was unwilling that anything should remain doubtful as to the external rites, which were not otherwise of great importance; that they might learn to observe precisely, and with the most exact care, whatever the Law commanded, and that they should not obtrude anything of themselves, inasmuch as the purity of the holy things was corrupted by the very smallest invention. He would, therefore, leave nothing to the people’s judgment, but directed them by a fixed rule even in the most trifling matters. As to the burnt-offerings, he commands that they should not be taken away from the altar till they were consumed by the fire; but after they were put on, he commands them...

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 6:9. _THIS IS THE LAW OF THE BURNT-OFFERING_] This law properly refers to that burnt-offering which was daily made in what was termed the _morning_ and _evening_ sacrifice; and as he had explained the nature of this burnt-offering in general, with its necessary ceremonies, as far as the persons who brought them were concerned, he now takes up the same in relation to the priests who were to receive them from the hands of the offerer, and present them to the Lord on the altar of burnt-offerings. _BECAUSE OF THE BURNING UPON THE ALTAR ALL NIGHT_] If the burnt-offering were put _all_ upon the fire at once, it could not be burning _all night_. We may therefore reasonably conclude that the priests sat up by turns the whole night, and fed the fire with _portions_ of this offering till the whole was consumed, which they wou

Rather, “This, the burnt-offering, shall be upon the fire on the altar all night unto the morning.” See Exodus 29:38, with the notes....

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;...

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, [OR] FOR THE BURNING UPON THE ALTAR ALL NIGHT UNTO THE MORNING; as there was nothing offered on the altar of burnt offering after the evening daily sacrifice, nor anything before the morning daily sacrifice, it was the more difficult to keep the fire of the altar burning in the night; wherefore a slow fire was used in the evening sacrifice, and several things remained to be burnt in the night: so Maimonides p says, the remainder of the fat of the members were burnt all night until the pillar of the morning (first rays of the rising sun, Editor.):...

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._...

BURNING. kept burning. Hebrew. _yakad,_ to burn as an ordinary culinary fire....