Leviticus 9:6

_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....

6._And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commanded _He seems, indeed, to address himself to the whole people, to whom also the promise belonged; but in the word “do ye,” (413) He specially speaks to the sons of Aaron; and he promises what, at the end of the chapter, he will state to have been fulfilled, that the glory of God should be manifested in approbation of the priesthood, in order that they may set about their duties more cheerfully. For this was no common aid to their faith and assurance, that their office should be thus, as it were, sealed by God....

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 9:6. _AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHALL APPEAR_] God shall give the most sensible signs of his presence among you; this he did in general by the cloud on the tabernacle, but in this case the _particular_ proof was the fire that came out from before the Lord, and consumed the burnt-offering; see Leviticus 9:23-3....

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

THIS [IS] THE THING WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED THAT YE SHOULD DO,.... Namely, what they had done, bring the creatures and things for sacrifice they had: AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHALL APPEAR UNTO YOU; either Christ, the brightness of his Father's glory, in an human form, as a presage of his future incarnation, as he frequently did; or some more than ordinary refulgence of glory breaking out of the holy of holies, where God had now taken up his dwelling between the cherubim; or, as Aben Ezra explains it, the fire that should go out from him, and consume the sacrifice, which would be a demonstration of his presence with them, and of his acceptance of the sacrifice....

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,...

_This is the thing_ as in Leviticus 8:5. To bring the sacrifices prescribed in Leviticus 9:2 is the thing which the Lord commanded....