Leviticus 9:2

_AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE EIGHTH DAY, THAT MOSES CALLED AARON AND HIS SONS, AND THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL;_ Moses called ... Take thee a young calf. The animals used in sacrifice were not only to be without blemish, but, excepting doves, not under eight days, nor over three years old. The directions in these sacred things were still given by Moses, the circumstances being extraordinary. But he was only the medium of communicating the divine will to the newly-made priests. The first of their official acts was the sacrifice of another sin offering, to atone for the defects of the inauguration services; and yet that sacrifice did not consist of a bullock-the sacrifice appointed for some particular transgression; but of a calf, perhaps not without a significant reference to Aaron's sin in the golden calf. Then followed a burnt offering, expressive of their voluntary and entire self-devotement...

1-21 These many sacrifices, which were all done away by the death of Christ, teach us that our best services need washing in his blood, and that the guilt of our best sacrifices needs to be done away by one more pure and more noble than they. Let us be thankful that we have such a High Priest. The priests had not a day's respite from service allowed. God's spiritual priests have constant work, which the duty of every day requires; they that would give up their account with joy, must redeem time. The glory of God appeared in the sight of the people, and owned what they had done. We are not now to expect such appearances, but God draws nigh to those who draw nigh to him, and the offerings of faith are acceptable to him; though the sacrifices being spiritual, the tokens of the acceptance are spiritual likewise. When Aaron had done all that was to be done about the sacrifices, he lifted up...

Verse Leviticus 9:2. _TAKE THEE A YOUNG CALF, C._] As these sacrifices were for Aaron himself, they are furnished by himself and not by the people, for they were designed to make atonement for his own sin. See Leviticus 4:3. And this is supposed by the Jews to have been intended to make an atonement for his sin in the matter of the _golden calf_. This is very probable, as no formal atonement for that transgression had yet been made....

Leviticus 9:1 ON THE EIGHTH DAY - i. e., on the first day after the week of consecration. Leviticus 9:2 A YOUNG CALF - A bull calf, which might have been what we should call a yearling ox. Leviticus 9:3 A KID OF THE GOATS - A shaggy he-goat. See Leviticus 4:23 note. Leviticus 9:6 THE GLORY OF THE LORD - Compare...

EXPOSITION THE FIRST PRIESTLY ACTS OF AARON AND HIS SONS are recounted in the chapter following that which narrates their consecration. LEVITICUS 9:1 ON THE EIGHTH DAY. The seven days of consecration being now over, Aaron for the first time offers a sin offering and burnt offering for himself, and a sin offering, a burnt offering, a peace offering, and a meat offering for the congregation. He is still instructed by Moses as to what he is to do, but it is through him that the command is given to the people to present their offerings, and it is he that slays the victims and offers their blood. His own sin offering is a YOUNG CALF, or young bull calf, whereas the si

AND HE SAID UNTO AARON,.... In the presence of the people of Israel: TAKE THEE A YOUNG CALF FOR A SIN [OFFERING]; one not exceeding a year old, as in Leviticus 9:3 but this was not for the sin of making the calf only, to which the Jewish writers restrain it, but for all other sins of his, which it was necessary should be expiated before he offered sacrifices for the sins of others: AND A RAM FOR A BURNT OFFERING; being a strong and innocent creature, was a proper emblem of Christ, the Lamb of God, that takes away by his sacrifice the sins of men: WITHOUT BLEMISH; this character belongs, as Aben Ezra observes, both to the calf and ram, which were both to be without spot, and so proper types of Christ the Lamb without spot and blemish, free both from original and actual sin: AND OFFER [THEM] BEFORE THE LORD; on the

2. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE PRIESTHOOD EXERCISED CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The new offerings of the priests (Leviticus 9:1)_ 2. The people's offerings (Leviticus 9:15) 3. The fulness of blessing and glory (Leviticus 9:22) A service follows the consecration of the priests, in which they officiated; hitherto Moses had acted by divine command. The service ordered is of great significance. For seven days, during the days of their consecration, a bullock had been offered for Aaron and his sons, and yet at the beginning of the eighth day a young calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering are needed. This reminds us of...

LEVITICUS 9. THE INSTALLATION FUNCTIONS. These take place at the end of the consecration octave. Here Aaron, assisted by his sons, as now consecrated, is the officiator, and not Moses, as in Leviticus 8. LEVITICUS 9:1. PREPARATION OF PRIESTS AND PEOPLE. The ceremony and its purpose are closely similar to those of the Day of Atonement. For the priests themselves, a sin offering, a bull-calf, and a burnt offering, a ram; for the people, a sin offering, a he-goat, a burnt offering, calf and lamb, and also a peace offering, ox and ram. No choice of animals is given here, as in Leviticus 1, and in Leviticus 4 the goat is for the prince and the bullock for the whole people. The meal offering accompanies, as in Leviticus 2, etc. The altar is the altar of burnt offering, the only altar known to P (altar of incense,...

SIN OFFERING. Hebrew. _chat'a._ App-43. OFFER. Hebrew. _karab._ BEFORE THE LORD. before the door of the tent of meeting (Leviticus 1:5; Leviticus 1:11)....

_a bull calf_ Only here is a calf appointed for a Sin-Offering. According to Jewish tradition, expressed in Targ. Jon., it was to remind Aaron of his sin in making the golden calf at Horeb (Exodus 32)....