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Exodus 29
46 verses with commentary
Consecration of the Priests
And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
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KJV Study Commentary
The consecration ceremony requires 'one young bullock, and two rams without blemish.' The Hebrew word קָדַשׁ (qadash, consecrate/sanctify) means to set apart as holy. Unblemished animals prefigure Christ the spotless Lamb (1 Peter 1:19). The bullock for sin offering and rams for burnt offerings establish the pattern: sin must be atoned (bullock) before acceptable worship (rams) can be offered. Con...
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XXIX.
THE FORM OF CONSECRATION FOR THE PRIESTS.
(1) **This is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them.**—The consecration of the priests had been commanded in the preceding chapter (Exodus 28:41). The method of it is now laid down. It consists of five things :—(1) Ablution (Exodus 29:4); (2) Investiture (Exodus 29:5-9); (3) Chrism, or anointing (Exodus 29:7); (4) Sacrifice (Exodus 29...
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**15-30. thou shalt make boards ... rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion ... which was showed thee--**The tabernacle, from its name as well as from its general appearance and arrangements, was a tent; but from the description given in these verses, the boards that formed its walls, the five (cross) bars that strengthened them, and the middle bar that "reached from end to end," and gave ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
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Unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil—all from fine wheat flour. Leaven represents sin/corruption (1 Corinthians 5:8); its absence pictures sinless purity. Oil represents the Holy Spirit. These bread offerings show that acceptable consecration requires both purity (unleavened) and Spirit-anointing (oil). The fine flour suggests the highest quali...
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(2) **Unleavened bread.**—Unleavened bread seems to have been required as purer than leavened, since fermentation was viewed as a species of corruption.
**Cakes . . . tempered with oil.**—Rather, *cakes that have had oil poured over them. *A tolerably thick cake is intended.
**Wafers.**—These were cakes, or biscuits, extremely thin and unsubstantial, as is implied by the etymology of the term used...
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**15-30. thou shalt make boards ... rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion ... which was showed thee--**The tabernacle, from its name as well as from its general appearance and arrangements, was a tent; but from the description given in these verses, the boards that formed its walls, the five (cross) bars that strengthened them, and the middle bar that "reached from end to end," and gave ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
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The bread offerings are brought 'in the basket' along with the bullock and rams. The basket contains all three unleavened bread types, representing the complete provision of spiritual nourishment. Christ as the Bread of Life provides complete sustenance—not one kind but fullness. The basket gathering diverse breads into unity prefigures how Christ unites diverse believers into one body, all sustai...
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**15-30. thou shalt make boards ... rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion ... which was showed thee--**The tabernacle, from its name as well as from its general appearance and arrangements, was a tent; but from the description given in these verses, the boards that formed its walls, the five (cross) bars that strengthened them, and the middle bar that "reached from end to end," and gave ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.
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Aaron and his sons are brought to the tabernacle entrance and 'washed with water.' Water washing symbolizes cleansing, regeneration (Titus 3:5). Before wearing holy garments or touching sacred things, priests must be washed. This prefigures Christian baptism—outward sign of inward cleansing through Christ's blood. The washing precedes clothing, anointing, and sacrifice, establishing that cleansing...
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(4) **Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door . . . —**The place of the laver, not yet mentioned, but designed in God’s counsels, was between the brazen altar and the Tabernacle (Exodus 30:18), and consequently near the door of the latter. Rabbinical tradition says that it was not placed exactly opposite the door, but a little towards the south side of the court.
**And shalt wash them.**...
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**15-30. thou shalt make boards ... rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion ... which was showed thee--**The tabernacle, from its name as well as from its general appearance and arrangements, was a tent; but from the description given in these verses, the boards that formed its walls, the five (cross) bars that strengthened them, and the middle bar that "reached from end to end," and gave ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
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This verse continues the consecration ceremony, detailing how Aaron receives priestly garments and anointing. Each element points to Christ's perfect qualification as our High Priest—clothed in divine righteousness and anointed by the Spirit without measure. The ceremony's precision shows that approaching God requires exact obedience to His prescribed pattern, ultimately fulfilled in Christ who pe...
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(5) **Thou shalt take the garments**—*i.e.*, those described in the preceding chapter.
**The coat**—*i.e., *the linen tunic (Exodus 28:39). As the inner garment, this had to be put on first. Comp. Leviticus 8:7-9, where the investiture is more fully described, and is seen to have comprised nine acts:—(1) The putting on of the tunic; (2) The girding of the tunic with the under-girdle; (3) The putti...
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**15-30. thou shalt make boards ... rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion ... which was showed thee--**The tabernacle, from its name as well as from its general appearance and arrangements, was a tent; but from the description given in these verses, the boards that formed its walls, the five (cross) bars that strengthened them, and the middle bar that "reached from end to end," and gave ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
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This verse continues the consecration ceremony, detailing how Aaron receives priestly garments and anointing. Each element points to Christ's perfect qualification as our High Priest—clothed in divine righteousness and anointed by the Spirit without measure. The ceremony's precision shows that approaching God requires exact obedience to His prescribed pattern, ultimately fulfilled in Christ who pe...
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(6) **The holy crown.**—The golden plate, inscribed with “Holiness to the Lord,” and attached to the mitre by a lace or riband, resembled the “diadems” worn in the East by monarchs, and regarded as the main emblem of their sovereignty. In Egypt, such a diadem is found first in the reign of Amenôphis IV. (Khuenaten), the ninth king of the eighteenth dynasty. The assignment of a crown to the high pr...
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**15-30. thou shalt make boards ... rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion ... which was showed thee--**The tabernacle, from its name as well as from its general appearance and arrangements, was a tent; but from the description given in these verses, the boards that formed its walls, the five (cross) bars that strengthened them, and the middle bar that "reached from end to end," and gave ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
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This verse continues the consecration ceremony, detailing how Aaron receives priestly garments and anointing. Each element points to Christ's perfect qualification as our High Priest—clothed in divine righteousness and anointed by the Spirit without measure. The ceremony's precision shows that approaching God requires exact obedience to His prescribed pattern, ultimately fulfilled in Christ who pe...
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(7) **The anointing oil**—*i.e.*, the oil mentioned in Exodus 25:6, and recently glanced at in Exodus 28:41. On its composition see Exodus 30:23-25.
**Pour it upon his head.**—As the ablution typified cleansing from sin, so the anointing was emblematic of the outpouring of Divine grace upon the person anointed. The *pouring *of the oil on Aaron’s head was perhaps to indicate the freeness and abund...
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**15-30. thou shalt make boards ... rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion ... which was showed thee--**The tabernacle, from its name as well as from its general appearance and arrangements, was a tent; but from the description given in these verses, the boards that formed its walls, the five (cross) bars that strengthened them, and the middle bar that "reached from end to end," and gave ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
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KJV Study Commentary
This verse continues the consecration ceremony, detailing how Aaron receives priestly garments and anointing. Each element points to Christ's perfect qualification as our High Priest—clothed in divine righteousness and anointed by the Spirit without measure. The ceremony's precision shows that approaching God requires exact obedience to His prescribed pattern, ultimately fulfilled in Christ who pe...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**15-30. thou shalt make boards ... rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion ... which was showed thee--**The tabernacle, from its name as well as from its general appearance and arrangements, was a tent; but from the description given in these verses, the boards that formed its walls, the five (cross) bars that strengthened them, and the middle bar that "reached from end to end," and gave ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. put: Heb. bind consecrate: Heb. fill the hand of
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KJV Study Commentary
This verse continues the consecration ceremony, detailing how Aaron receives priestly garments and anointing. Each element points to Christ's perfect qualification as our High Priest—clothed in divine righteousness and anointed by the Spirit without measure. The ceremony's precision shows that approaching God requires exact obedience to His prescribed pattern, ultimately fulfilled in Christ who pe...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**15-30. thou shalt make boards ... rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion ... which was showed thee--**The tabernacle, from its name as well as from its general appearance and arrangements, was a tent; but from the description given in these verses, the boards that formed its walls, the five (cross) bars that strengthened them, and the middle bar that "reached from end to end," and gave ...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
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KJV Study Commentary
The burnt offering represents complete dedication to God—the entire animal consumed by fire, ascending as sweet savor to the LORD. This prefigures Christ's total self-offering, holding nothing back, His life completely devoted to God's glory. The fire consuming the offering pictures divine acceptance—God receives Christ's sacrifice with pleasure. Our worship, offered through Christ, also ascends a...
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(10) **Thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought.**—Rather, *the bullock: i.e., *the bullock mentioned in Exodus 29:1, which was to be kept in readiness for the consecration sacrifice.
**Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.**—By this symbolical action, which was commanded in the case of every sin offering (Leviticus 4:4; Leviticus 4:15; Leviticus 4:24; Leviticus 4:...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
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KJV Study Commentary
The burnt offering represents complete dedication to God—the entire animal consumed by fire, ascending as sweet savor to the LORD. This prefigures Christ's total self-offering, holding nothing back, His life completely devoted to God's glory. The fire consuming the offering pictures divine acceptance—God receives Christ's sacrifice with pleasure. Our worship, offered through Christ, also ascends a...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
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KJV Study Commentary
The burnt offering represents complete dedication to God—the entire animal consumed by fire, ascending as sweet savor to the LORD. This prefigures Christ's total self-offering, holding nothing back, His life completely devoted to God's glory. The fire consuming the offering pictures divine acceptance—God receives Christ's sacrifice with pleasure. Our worship, offered through Christ, also ascends a...
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(12) **Thou shalt take of the blood . . . and put it upon the horns of the altar.**—It has been already noticed that the virtue of the altar was considered to reside especially in its horns; hence fugitives clung to them (1Kings 1:50; 1Kings 2:28). In all sin offerings it was required (1) That some of the victim’s blood should be smeared upon the altar’s horns; and (2) That the remainder should be...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar. the caul: it seemeth by anatomy, and the Hebrew doctors, to be the midriff
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KJV Study Commentary
The burnt offering represents complete dedication to God—the entire animal consumed by fire, ascending as sweet savor to the LORD. This prefigures Christ's total self-offering, holding nothing back, His life completely devoted to God's glory. The fire consuming the offering pictures divine acceptance—God receives Christ's sacrifice with pleasure. Our worship, offered through Christ, also ascends a...
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(13) **Thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards.**—Whole burnt offerings were, comparatively speaking, of rare occurrence in the ancient world. Usually, parts only of the victims were consumed by fire upon the altar; the greater portion was either eaten by the priests and the worshippers, or burnt elsewhere than on the altar. Among the parts regarded as most fitting to be consumed on ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
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KJV Study Commentary
The burnt offering represents complete dedication to God—the entire animal consumed by fire, ascending as sweet savor to the LORD. This prefigures Christ's total self-offering, holding nothing back, His life completely devoted to God's glory. The fire consuming the offering pictures divine acceptance—God receives Christ's sacrifice with pleasure. Our worship, offered through Christ, also ascends a...
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(14) **The flesh . . . shalt thou burn . . . with out the camp.**—Comp. Leviticus 4:11-12; Leviticus 4:21; Hebrews 13:11-13. This was the general rule with sin offerings. The whole animal was reckoned too impure for any portion of it to be suitable for human food.
**His dung.**—That which the intestines contained at the time of death.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
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KJV Study Commentary
The burnt offering represents complete dedication to God—the entire animal consumed by fire, ascending as sweet savor to the LORD. This prefigures Christ's total self-offering, holding nothing back, His life completely devoted to God's glory. The fire consuming the offering pictures divine acceptance—God receives Christ's sacrifice with pleasure. Our worship, offered through Christ, also ascends a...
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(15) **One ram.**—Heb., *the one ram: i.e., *one of the two rams already mentioned in Exodus 29:1.
**Put their hands upon the head of the ram.**
—Again identifying themselves with the animal, as in Exodus 29:10, but with a different purpose from their former one. Then they transferred their sins to the victim; now they claimed a part in the victim’s dedication to God, offering themselves with it, ...
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**36. an hanging for the door of the tent--**Curtains of rich and elaborate embroidery, made by the women, are suspended over the doors or entrances of the tents occupied by Eastern chiefs and princes. In a similar style of elegance was the hanging finished which was to cover the door of this tabernacle--the chosen habitation of the God and King of Israel. It appears from Ex 26:12, 22, 23, that th...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
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KJV Study Commentary
The burnt offering represents complete dedication to God—the entire animal consumed by fire, ascending as sweet savor to the LORD. This prefigures Christ's total self-offering, holding nothing back, His life completely devoted to God's glory. The fire consuming the offering pictures divine acceptance—God receives Christ's sacrifice with pleasure. Our worship, offered through Christ, also ascends a...
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(16) **Thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it.**—Rather, *scatter it. *The act of throwing the blood from a basin against the lower part of the altar is intended. The verb is a different one from that rightly translated “sprinkle” in Exodus 29:21. The LXX. render it by προσχεῖν, and the Vulg. by *fundere*.
**Round about upon the altar.**—Practically, this was done by casting it on two of the c...
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Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head. unto: or, upon
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KJV Study Commentary
The burnt offering represents complete dedication to God—the entire animal consumed by fire, ascending as sweet savor to the LORD. This prefigures Christ's total self-offering, holding nothing back, His life completely devoted to God's glory. The fire consuming the offering pictures divine acceptance—God receives Christ's sacrifice with pleasure. Our worship, offered through Christ, also ascends a...
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(17) **Thou shalt cut the ram in pieces.**—This was the ordinary practice, not only among the Hebrews, but also among other nations, as the Egyptians (Herod. ii. 40), the Greeks, the Romans, and others. It was probably found to facilitate the burning of the animal, which was with difficulty consumed entire. The shoulder, thigh, head, ribs, rump, heart, and kidneys appear separate in the representa...
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Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
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KJV Study Commentary
The burnt offering represents complete dedication to God—the entire animal consumed by fire, ascending as sweet savor to the LORD. This prefigures Christ's total self-offering, holding nothing back, His life completely devoted to God's glory. The fire consuming the offering pictures divine acceptance—God receives Christ's sacrifice with pleasure. Our worship, offered through Christ, also ascends a...
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(18) **Thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar.**—A burnt offering, as representing self- sacrifice, was *entirely *acceptable to God; the whole might be consumed upon the altar. It was otherwise with sin offerings, of which only certain parts could be thus offered. (Comp. above, Exodus 29:14; and see Leviticus 4:12; Leviticus 4:21, &c.)
**A sweet savour.**—Comp. Genesis 8:21 and Note *ad loc...
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CHAPTER 27 Ex 27:1-21. Altar for Burnt Offering.
**1-2. altar of shittim wood--**The dimensions of this altar which was placed at the entrance of the sanctuary were nearly three yards square, and a yard and a half in height. Under the wooden frame of this chest-like altar the inside was hollow, and each corner was to be terminated by "horns"--angular projections, perpendicular or oblique, in the ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
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KJV Study Commentary
The consecration ram's blood applied to Aaron's right ear, thumb, and toe symbolizes that priests must hear God's word (ear), act on it (thumb/hand), and walk in it (toe/foot). Blood application sanctifies these members for holy service. Christ's blood sanctifies our hearing, working, and walking—our complete life consecrated through His atonement. The right side emphasizes the place of honor and ...
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(19) **The other ram.**—Comp. Exodus 29:1; Exodus 29:15. This ram is called in Leviticus (Exodus 8:22) “the ram of consecration.” It formed, as has been observed (*Speaker’s Commentary, *vol. i. pt. 2, p. 535), “by far the most peculiar part of the whole ceremony” Consecrated to God by the act of sacrifice, its blood was used, together with the holy oil, for the consecration of Aaron and his sons ...
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CHAPTER 27 Ex 27:1-21. Altar for Burnt Offering.
**1-2. altar of shittim wood--**The dimensions of this altar which was placed at the entrance of the sanctuary were nearly three yards square, and a yard and a half in height. Under the wooden frame of this chest-like altar the inside was hollow, and each corner was to be terminated by "horns"--angular projections, perpendicular or oblique, in the ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
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The consecration ram's blood applied to Aaron's right ear, thumb, and toe symbolizes that priests must hear God's word (ear), act on it (thumb/hand), and walk in it (toe/foot). Blood application sanctifies these members for holy service. Christ's blood sanctifies our hearing, working, and walking—our complete life consecrated through His atonement. The right side emphasizes the place of honor and ...
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(20) **Take of his blood.**—The blood was regarded as the life (Genesis 9:4). The life consecrated to God and accepted by Him was given back by Him to His ministers, that it might consecrate them wholly to His service, and so fit them for it. Placed upon the tip of the right ear, it reminded them that their ears were to be ever open and attentive to the whispers of the Divine voice; placed on the ...
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**3. shovels--**fire shovels for scraping together any of the scattered ashes.
**basons--**for receiving the blood of the sacrifice to be sprinkled on the people.
**fleshhooks--**curved, three-pronged forks (1Sa 2:13, 14).
**fire-pans--**A large sort of vessel, wherein the sacred fire which came down from heaven (Le 9:24) was kept burning, while they cleaned the altar and the grate from the ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
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The consecration ram's blood applied to Aaron's right ear, thumb, and toe symbolizes that priests must hear God's word (ear), act on it (thumb/hand), and walk in it (toe/foot). Blood application sanctifies these members for holy service. Christ's blood sanctifies our hearing, working, and walking—our complete life consecrated through His atonement. The right side emphasizes the place of honor and ...
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(21) **Take of the blood . . . and of the anointing oil.**—The twofold sprinkling, with blood and with oil, denoted the necessity of a twofold holiness—that of justification by the atoning blood of Christ, and that of sanctification by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The anointing which is here spoken of seems to have been the only anointing received by the sons of Aaron. (See Leviticus 8:30.)
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**4. a grate of network of brass--**sunk latticework to support the fire.
**four brazen rings--**by which the grating might be lifted and taken away as occasion required from the body of the altar.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:
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The consecration ram's blood applied to Aaron's right ear, thumb, and toe symbolizes that priests must hear God's word (ear), act on it (thumb/hand), and walk in it (toe/foot). Blood application sanctifies these members for holy service. Christ's blood sanctifies our hearing, working, and walking—our complete life consecrated through His atonement. The right side emphasizes the place of honor and ...
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(22) **Thou shalt take of the ram the fat . . . —**These were the portions commonly burnt upon the altar in the case of peace offerings. (See Leviticus 3:9-11.) By “the rump” is meant the broad fat tail which characterises Oriental sheep, and which is said to weigh from six to twenty pounds. (Fellows, *Asia Minor, *p. 10. Comp. Herod. iii. 113; Leo African. 9 p. 293A.)
**The caul above the liver.*...
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**5. put it under the compass of the altar beneath--**that is, the grating in which they were carried to a clean place (Le 4:12).
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
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The consecration ram's blood applied to Aaron's right ear, thumb, and toe symbolizes that priests must hear God's word (ear), act on it (thumb/hand), and walk in it (toe/foot). Blood application sanctifies these members for holy service. Christ's blood sanctifies our hearing, working, and walking—our complete life consecrated through His atonement. The right side emphasizes the place of honor and ...
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(23) **The basket . . . that is before the Lord.**—Comp. Exodus 29:3. The objects mentioned formed the “meat offering,” which always accompanied a peace offering.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**6-7. staves ... rings--**Those rings were placed at the side through which the poles were inserted on occasions of removal.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. shalt wave: or, shalt shake to and fro
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The consecration ram's blood applied to Aaron's right ear, thumb, and toe symbolizes that priests must hear God's word (ear), act on it (thumb/hand), and walk in it (toe/foot). Blood application sanctifies these members for holy service. Christ's blood sanctifies our hearing, working, and walking—our complete life consecrated through His atonement. The right side emphasizes the place of honor and ...
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(24) **Thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons.**—Rather, *on the hands. *Having placed the offerings on the hands of his brother and his brother’s sons, Moses was to put his own hands beneath theirs, and to make a waving motion towards the four quarters of the sky, thus presenting the offerings to the ubiquitous God. Aaron and his sons thus performed their first pri...
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**6-7. staves ... rings--**Those rings were placed at the side through which the poles were inserted on occasions of removal.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
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The consecration ram's blood applied to Aaron's right ear, thumb, and toe symbolizes that priests must hear God's word (ear), act on it (thumb/hand), and walk in it (toe/foot). Blood application sanctifies these members for holy service. Christ's blood sanctifies our hearing, working, and walking—our complete life consecrated through His atonement. The right side emphasizes the place of honor and ...
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(25) **Thou shalt receive them . . . and burn them.**—On communicating his priestly functions to his brother and his brother’s sons, Moses was not immediately to lay them aside; but, as he had begun the consecration ceremony, so he was to complete it. (Comp. Exodus 29:31-37, and Leviticus 8:28-36.)
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part.
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The consecration ram's blood applied to Aaron's right ear, thumb, and toe symbolizes that priests must hear God's word (ear), act on it (thumb/hand), and walk in it (toe/foot). Blood application sanctifies these members for holy service. Christ's blood sanctifies our hearing, working, and walking—our complete life consecrated through His atonement. The right side emphasizes the place of honor and ...
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(26) **Thou shalt take the breast.**—It was the general law that in “wave offerings” the breast should be the officiating priest’s (Leviticus 7:29-31); hence, on this occasion, it was assigned to Moses.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**9-19. the court of the tabernacle--**The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
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The consecration ram's blood applied to Aaron's right ear, thumb, and toe symbolizes that priests must hear God's word (ear), act on it (thumb/hand), and walk in it (toe/foot). Blood application sanctifies these members for holy service. Christ's blood sanctifies our hearing, working, and walking—our complete life consecrated through His atonement. The right side emphasizes the place of honor and ...
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**THE LAW OF THE WAVE AND HEAVE OFFERINGS, AND OF THE CONSECRATION GARMENTS.**
(27, 28) **The wave offering.**—For the future, in every case of offerings made at a consecration, both the breast and the right shoulder (Leviticus 7:32) were to be given to the officiating priest, who was to “wave” the one and “heave” the other before the Lord. “Heaving” was a single movement, an uplifting of the thin...
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**9-19. the court of the tabernacle--**The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.
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KJV Study Commentary
The consecration ram's blood applied to Aaron's right ear, thumb, and toe symbolizes that priests must hear God's word (ear), act on it (thumb/hand), and walk in it (toe/foot). Blood application sanctifies these members for holy service. Christ's blood sanctifies our hearing, working, and walking—our complete life consecrated through His atonement. The right side emphasizes the place of honor and ...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**9-19. the court of the tabernacle--**The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that ...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
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KJV Study Commentary
The seven-day consecration period represents complete, perfect preparation (seven = completeness). Aaron and his sons must remain at the tabernacle entrance throughout, unable to leave, fully devoted to consecration. This prefigures how believers, once called to Christ, must remain in Him continually—not part-time but full devotion. The daily repetition of sacrifices emphasizes that consecration r...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**9-19. the court of the tabernacle--**The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place. that son: Heb. he of his sons
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KJV Study Commentary
The seven-day consecration period represents complete, perfect preparation (seven = completeness). Aaron and his sons must remain at the tabernacle entrance throughout, unable to leave, fully devoted to consecration. This prefigures how believers, once called to Christ, must remain in Him continually—not part-time but full devotion. The daily repetition of sacrifices emphasizes that consecration r...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**9-19. the court of the tabernacle--**The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.
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KJV Study Commentary
The seven-day consecration period represents complete, perfect preparation (seven = completeness). Aaron and his sons must remain at the tabernacle entrance throughout, unable to leave, fully devoted to consecration. This prefigures how believers, once called to Christ, must remain in Him continually—not part-time but full devotion. The daily repetition of sacrifices emphasizes that consecration r...
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THE FEAST UPON THE CONSECRATION OFFERINGS.
(31-34) The writer having digressed in Exodus 29:27 from his main subject (the consecration of Aaron and his sons) to the consideration of certain permanent laws which arose out of the occasion, returns to his main subject at this point, and records the directions which he received with respect to the feast that followed, as a matter of course, on the con...
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**9-19. the court of the tabernacle--**The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
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KJV Study Commentary
The seven-day consecration period represents complete, perfect preparation (seven = completeness). Aaron and his sons must remain at the tabernacle entrance throughout, unable to leave, fully devoted to consecration. This prefigures how believers, once called to Christ, must remain in Him continually—not part-time but full devotion. The daily repetition of sacrifices emphasizes that consecration r...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**9-19. the court of the tabernacle--**The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
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KJV Study Commentary
The seven-day consecration period represents complete, perfect preparation (seven = completeness). Aaron and his sons must remain at the tabernacle entrance throughout, unable to leave, fully devoted to consecration. This prefigures how believers, once called to Christ, must remain in Him continually—not part-time but full devotion. The daily repetition of sacrifices emphasizes that consecration r...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**9-19. the court of the tabernacle--**The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
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KJV Study Commentary
The seven-day consecration period represents complete, perfect preparation (seven = completeness). Aaron and his sons must remain at the tabernacle entrance throughout, unable to leave, fully devoted to consecration. This prefigures how believers, once called to Christ, must remain in Him continually—not part-time but full devotion. The daily repetition of sacrifices emphasizes that consecration r...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**9-19. the court of the tabernacle--**The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.
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KJV Study Commentary
The seven-day consecration period represents complete, perfect preparation (seven = completeness). Aaron and his sons must remain at the tabernacle entrance throughout, unable to leave, fully devoted to consecration. This prefigures how believers, once called to Christ, must remain in Him continually—not part-time but full devotion. The daily repetition of sacrifices emphasizes that consecration r...
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THE SEVENFOLD REPETITION OF THE CONSECRATION CEREMONIAL.
(35) **Seven days shalt thou consecrate them.**—The number seven possessed an ideal completeness, resting on the primeval facts of creation (Genesis 1, 2). It is the number almost exclusively used under the old covenant, when acts are to attain their result by repetition. (See Leviticus 4:6; Leviticus 4:17; Leviticus 8:11; Leviticus 14:7; Le...
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**9-19. the court of the tabernacle--**The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
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KJV Study Commentary
God promises to dwell among Israel, meeting them at the tabernacle, His glory sanctifying the place and people. The daily offerings maintain covenant relationship—morning and evening, continually before the LORD. This perpetual worship prefigures Christ's eternal intercession and the New Covenant promise: 'I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' The tabernacle becomes the meeting place ...
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(36) **Thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it.**—Rather, *by making an atonement for it. *The atonement was made by smearing the blood of the bullock upon the horns of the altar (Exodus 29:12, compared with Leviticus 8:15).
**And thou shalt anoint it.**—Comp. Leviticus 8:11, where we find that the altar was anointed by having the holy oil sprinkled upon it seven time...
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**9-19. the court of the tabernacle--**The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that ...
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy : whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
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KJV Study Commentary
God promises to dwell among Israel, meeting them at the tabernacle, His glory sanctifying the place and people. The daily offerings maintain covenant relationship—morning and evening, continually before the LORD. This perpetual worship prefigures Christ's eternal intercession and the New Covenant promise: 'I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' The tabernacle becomes the meeting place ...
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(37) **An altar most holy.**—Heb., *an altar, holiness of holinesses.*
**Whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.**—Rather, *must be holy; *nothing which is not holy must touch it. The future has the force of an imperative, as in the Ten Commandments.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**20-21. pure oil olive beaten--**that is, such as runs from the olives when bruised and without the application of fire.
**for the light ... Aaron and his sons--**were to take charge of lighting it in all time coming.
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Chapter 29
Chapter Outline
The sacrifice and ceremony for the consecration of the priests.(1-37)
The continual burnt-offerings, God's promise to dwell among Israel.
(38-46)
**Verses 1-37**
Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office, with ceremony and solemnity. Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our profession, called of God to be so; anointed wit...
Read full commentary →The Daily Offerings
Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
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KJV Study Commentary
God promises to dwell among Israel, meeting them at the tabernacle, His glory sanctifying the place and people. The daily offerings maintain covenant relationship—morning and evening, continually before the LORD. This perpetual worship prefigures Christ's eternal intercession and the New Covenant promise: 'I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' The tabernacle becomes the meeting place ...
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THE LAW OF THE DAILY SACRIFICE, AND THE PROMISE OF GOD’S PRESENCE.
(38-42) The consecration of the altar, which took place during the consecration of the priests, was to be followed immediately by the establishment of the daily sacrifice. Two lambs were to be offered every day, one in the morning, the other “between the evenings” (Exodus 29:39); partly in expiation of the daily sins of the nation*...
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**20-21. pure oil olive beaten--**that is, such as runs from the olives when bruised and without the application of fire.
**for the light ... Aaron and his sons--**were to take charge of lighting it in all time coming.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 38-46**
A lamb was to be offered upon the altar every morning, and a lamb every evening. This typified the continual intercession which Christ ever lives to make for his church. Though he offered himself but once for all, that one offering thus becomes a continual offering. This also teaches us to offer to God the spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise every day, morning and evenin...
Read full commentary →The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:
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God promises to dwell among Israel, meeting them at the tabernacle, His glory sanctifying the place and people. The daily offerings maintain covenant relationship—morning and evening, continually before the LORD. This perpetual worship prefigures Christ's eternal intercession and the New Covenant promise: 'I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' The tabernacle becomes the meeting place ...
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**Verses 38-46**
A lamb was to be offered upon the altar every morning, and a lamb every evening. This typified the continual intercession which Christ ever lives to make for his church. Though he offered himself but once for all, that one offering thus becomes a continual offering. This also teaches us to offer to God the spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise every day, morning and evenin...
Read full commentary →And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
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KJV Study Commentary
God promises to dwell among Israel, meeting them at the tabernacle, His glory sanctifying the place and people. The daily offerings maintain covenant relationship—morning and evening, continually before the LORD. This perpetual worship prefigures Christ's eternal intercession and the New Covenant promise: 'I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' The tabernacle becomes the meeting place ...
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CHAPTER 28 Ex 28:1-43. Appointment to the Priesthood.
**1. take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him--**Moses had hitherto discharged the priestly functions (Psa 99:6), and he evinced the piety as well as humility of his character, in readily complying with the command to invest his brother with the sacred office, though it involved the perpetual exclusion of his own family. Th...
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**Verses 38-46**
A lamb was to be offered upon the altar every morning, and a lamb every evening. This typified the continual intercession which Christ ever lives to make for his church. Though he offered himself but once for all, that one offering thus becomes a continual offering. This also teaches us to offer to God the spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise every day, morning and evenin...
Read full commentary →And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
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KJV Study Commentary
God promises to dwell among Israel, meeting them at the tabernacle, His glory sanctifying the place and people. The daily offerings maintain covenant relationship—morning and evening, continually before the LORD. This perpetual worship prefigures Christ's eternal intercession and the New Covenant promise: 'I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' The tabernacle becomes the meeting place ...
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**2-5. holy garments--**No inherent holiness belonged either to the material or the workmanship. But they are called "holy" simply because they were not worn on ordinary occasions, but assumed in the discharge of the sacred functions (Eze 44:19).
**for glory and for beauty--**It was a grand and sumptuous attire. In material, elaborate embroidery, and color, it had an imposing splendor. The taber...
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**Verses 38-46**
A lamb was to be offered upon the altar every morning, and a lamb every evening. This typified the continual intercession which Christ ever lives to make for his church. Though he offered himself but once for all, that one offering thus becomes a continual offering. This also teaches us to offer to God the spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise every day, morning and evenin...
Read full commentary →This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
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KJV Study Commentary
God promises to dwell among Israel, meeting them at the tabernacle, His glory sanctifying the place and people. The daily offerings maintain covenant relationship—morning and evening, continually before the LORD. This perpetual worship prefigures Christ's eternal intercession and the New Covenant promise: 'I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' The tabernacle becomes the meeting place ...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**2-5. holy garments--**No inherent holiness belonged either to the material or the workmanship. But they are called "holy" simply because they were not worn on ordinary occasions, but assumed in the discharge of the sacred functions (Eze 44:19).
**for glory and for beauty--**It was a grand and sumptuous attire. In material, elaborate embroidery, and color, it had an imposing splendor. The taber...
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**Verses 38-46**
A lamb was to be offered upon the altar every morning, and a lamb every evening. This typified the continual intercession which Christ ever lives to make for his church. Though he offered himself but once for all, that one offering thus becomes a continual offering. This also teaches us to offer to God the spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise every day, morning and evenin...
Read full commentary →And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. the tabernacle: or, Israel
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KJV Study Commentary
God promises to dwell among Israel, meeting them at the tabernacle, His glory sanctifying the place and people. The daily offerings maintain covenant relationship—morning and evening, continually before the LORD. This perpetual worship prefigures Christ's eternal intercession and the New Covenant promise: 'I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' The tabernacle becomes the meeting place ...
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(43) **The tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.**—See Exodus 40:34-35; and comp. Leviticus 9:24; 1Kings 8:10-11; 2Chronicles 5:13-14; 2Chronicles 7:2.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**2-5. holy garments--**No inherent holiness belonged either to the material or the workmanship. But they are called "holy" simply because they were not worn on ordinary occasions, but assumed in the discharge of the sacred functions (Eze 44:19).
**for glory and for beauty--**It was a grand and sumptuous attire. In material, elaborate embroidery, and color, it had an imposing splendor. The taber...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 38-46**
A lamb was to be offered upon the altar every morning, and a lamb every evening. This typified the continual intercession which Christ ever lives to make for his church. Though he offered himself but once for all, that one offering thus becomes a continual offering. This also teaches us to offer to God the spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise every day, morning and evenin...
Read full commentary →And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office.
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KJV Study Commentary
God promises to dwell among Israel, meeting them at the tabernacle, His glory sanctifying the place and people. The daily offerings maintain covenant relationship—morning and evening, continually before the LORD. This perpetual worship prefigures Christ's eternal intercession and the New Covenant promise: 'I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' The tabernacle becomes the meeting place ...
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(44) **I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons.**—Something beyond the formal consecration seems to be intended. God will continually sanctify the Levitical priesthood by the presence of His Holy Spirit with them, in their ministerial acts, and even in their daily walk, if they will seek to serve Him.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**2-5. holy garments--**No inherent holiness belonged either to the material or the workmanship. But they are called "holy" simply because they were not worn on ordinary occasions, but assumed in the discharge of the sacred functions (Eze 44:19).
**for glory and for beauty--**It was a grand and sumptuous attire. In material, elaborate embroidery, and color, it had an imposing splendor. The taber...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 38-46**
A lamb was to be offered upon the altar every morning, and a lamb every evening. This typified the continual intercession which Christ ever lives to make for his church. Though he offered himself but once for all, that one offering thus becomes a continual offering. This also teaches us to offer to God the spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise every day, morning and evenin...
Read full commentary →And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
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KJV Study Commentary
God promises to dwell among Israel, meeting them at the tabernacle, His glory sanctifying the place and people. The daily offerings maintain covenant relationship—morning and evening, continually before the LORD. This perpetual worship prefigures Christ's eternal intercession and the New Covenant promise: 'I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' The tabernacle becomes the meeting place ...
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(45) **I will dwell among the children of Israel.—**It must not be supposed that the fulfilment of this promise was effected by the mere presence of the Shechinah within the Tabernacle. It pledged God to **a **perpetual supervision, care, and tender protection of His people, such as we find actually exercised in the history of the nation.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**6-14. ephod--**It was a very gorgeous robe made of byssus, curiously embroidered, and dyed with variegated colors, and further enriched with golden tissue, the threads of gold being either originally interwoven or afterwards inserted by the embroiderer. It was short--reaching from the breast to a little below the loins--and though destitute of sleeves, retained its position by the support of str...
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**Verses 38-46**
A lamb was to be offered upon the altar every morning, and a lamb every evening. This typified the continual intercession which Christ ever lives to make for his church. Though he offered himself but once for all, that one offering thus becomes a continual offering. This also teaches us to offer to God the spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise every day, morning and evenin...
Read full commentary →And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.
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KJV Study Commentary
God promises to dwell among Israel, meeting them at the tabernacle, His glory sanctifying the place and people. The daily offerings maintain covenant relationship—morning and evening, continually before the LORD. This perpetual worship prefigures Christ's eternal intercession and the New Covenant promise: 'I will be their God, and they shall be my people.' The tabernacle becomes the meeting place ...
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(46) **They shall know . . . —***i.e., *My after care of them will prove me the same loving and all-powerful God whose help effected their deliverance from the bondage of Egypt.
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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**6-14. ephod--**It was a very gorgeous robe made of byssus, curiously embroidered, and dyed with variegated colors, and further enriched with golden tissue, the threads of gold being either originally interwoven or afterwards inserted by the embroiderer. It was short--reaching from the breast to a little below the loins--and though destitute of sleeves, retained its position by the support of str...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 38-46**
A lamb was to be offered upon the altar every morning, and a lamb every evening. This typified the continual intercession which Christ ever lives to make for his church. Though he offered himself but once for all, that one offering thus becomes a continual offering. This also teaches us to offer to God the spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise every day, morning and evenin...
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