Leviticus 9:3

_AND UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THOU SHALT SPEAK, SAYING, TAKE YE A KID OF THE GOATS FOR A SIN OFFERING; AND A CALF AND A LAMB, BOTH OF THE FIRST YEAR, WITHOUT BLEMISH, FOR A BURNT OFFERING;_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....

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 9:3. _TAKE YE A KID_] In Leviticus 4:14 a young bullock is commanded to be offered for the sin of the people; but here the offering is a _kid_, which was the sacrifice appointed for the sin of the _ruler_, Leviticus 4:22-3, and hence some think that the reading of the _Samaritan_ and the _Septuagint_ is to be preferred. _Speak unto the_ ELDERS _of Israel_, these being the only _princes_ or _rulers_ of Israel at that time; and for them it is possible this sacrifice was designed. It is however supposed that the sacrifice appointed Leviticus 4:14 was for a particular...

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 UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THOU SHALT SPEAK,.... That is, Aaron should speak to them, for being now high priest, Moses had no more to do with the sacrifices of the people, but it was incumbent on Aaron to call upon them to bring them to him such as the Lord by this law required of them: SAYING, TAKE YE A KID OF THE GOATS FOR A SIN [OFFERING]; this creature fitly represented Christ as made sin, and an offering for sin, in the room of his people: AND A CALF, AND A LAMB; both of them, as before observed, were proper emblems of Christ in his strength and innocence, sometimes called the fatted calf, and frequently the Lamb of God, Luke 15:23 John 1:29: [BOTH] OF THE FIRST YEAR, WITHOUT BLEMISH, FOR A BURNT OFFERING; denoting the tenderness of Christ, his spot

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,...

CHILDREN. Hebrew sons. THOU SHALT SPEAK. Aaron now to give the orders about the sacrifices....

_And unto the children_ LXX. and Sam. have -elders" as in Leviticus 9:1....