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Leviticus 22
33 verses with commentary
Priestly Purity
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Leviticus points forward to Jesus Christ, who fulfills the entire sacrificial system as both perfect sacrif...
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**XXII.**
(1) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—In this chapter the laws regulating the conduct of the priests in their holy ministrations are continued. As the last chapter concluded with the permission to disqualified priests to eat of the sacrifices, this chapter opens with conditions under which even the legally qualified priests must not partake of the offerings.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**6. None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him--**Very great laxity prevailed amongst the Egyptians in their sentiments and practice about the conjugal relation, as they not only openly sanctioned marriages between brothers and sisters, but even between parents and children. Such incestuous alliances Moses wisely prohibited, and his laws form the basis upon which the marriage re...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.
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<strong>Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaini...
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(2) **Separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel.**—As parts of the sacrifices offered by the Israelites belonged to the priests, they are here warned that (see Leviticus 7:20-21) they are not to consider themselves absolutely entitled to them under all circumstances, and that there are times when they must abstain from them.
**In those things which they hallow unto me.**—T...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
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<strong>Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those...
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(3) **Whosoever he be of all your seed, among your generations.**—Better, *throughout your generations, every man. *So the Authorised version properly renders the expression here translated “among your generations” in Leviticus 23:14; Leviticus 23:21. (See Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 21:17.)
**That goeth unto the holy things.**—That is, who approaches the sacrifices to eat them, as is stated in Levi...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him; running: Heb. running of the reins
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<strong>What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offer...
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(4) **Is a leper.**—The different forms of uncleanness are now specified. (For the leper, see Leviticus 13:3.)
**Or hath a running issue.**—See Leviticus 15:2.
**Whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead.**—That is, if he touches any person or anything that had been defiled through contact with a corpse. (See Numbers 19:11-14.)
**Whose seed goeth from him.**—This is the same case mentio...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
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<strong>Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>Ritual purity laws taught Israel...
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(5) **Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing.**—See Leviticus 11:24-44.
**Or a man of whom he may take uncleanness.**—Better, *or a man who is unclean to him, *that is, who is a leper (see Leviticus 13:45), or has an issue (see Leviticus 15:5, &c.), and who imparts defilement by contact.
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.
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<strong>The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's...
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(6) **The soul which hath touched.**—Better, *the man who hath, *that is, the priest for whom these laws are here enacted. Hence the ancient Chaldee version renders it “the man a priest.”
**Shall be unclean until even.**—When the day ends and another begins (see Leviticus 11:24-32), and when he had to immerse his body in water.
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
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<strong>And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and the call for H...
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(7) **And shall afterward eat . . . because it is his food.**—As the sacrifices which were the perquisites of the officiating priests were the only things he had to live upon, the priest who had contracted defilement had virtually to go without food till sundown, when he purified himself by the prescribed lustrations.
**That which dieth of itself.**—That is, clean animals or birds which have not b...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.
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<strong>That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Leviticus points forward to Jesus...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
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<strong>They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's hol...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
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<strong>There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and...
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(10) **There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing.**—By “stranger” here is meant a non-Aaronite who was a stranger to the priestly family, though he was an Israelite, or even a Levite. The holy things are the peace offerings. (See Leviticus 7:30.)
**A** **sojourner of the priest.**—This, during the second Temple, was a Hebrew servant whose ear had been pierced, and who thus became his master’s ...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat. with: Heb. with the purchase of his money
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<strong>But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated between God and Isr...
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(11) **But if the priest buy any soul.**—The case, however, was different with heathen slaves whom the priest purchased. These were admitted into the Jewish community by the rite of circumcision, they were allowed to partake of the paschal lamb, and of every privilege of the Israelites. Hence they became incorporated in the priestly family, and were allowed to eat of the holy things. During the se...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger , she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. a stranger: Heb. a man a stranger
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<strong>If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and the call for His p...
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(12) **If the priest’s daughter also be married.**—Better, *And if the priest’s daughter be married, *By marrying a Hebrew of non-Aaronic descent, and thus leaving her paternal home, the daughter of the priest ceased to be part of the family circle, and lost her right to partake of the holy things. Her bread came from her husband, and she could therefore no longer partake of the priest’s bread. Du...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
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<strong>But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintainin...
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(13) **Be a widow, or divorced, and have no child.**—An exception, however, to this rule is, when the priest’s married daughter loses her husband either by death or by divorce, and has no children; under such circumstances she may resume her family ties under her paternal roof. Having lost her bread supplier, she may eat again her father’s bread. She could, however, only eat of the heave-offerings...
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**18. Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her--**The original is rendered in the Margin, "neither shalt thou take one wife to another to vex her," and two different and opposite interpretations have been put upon this passage. The marginal construction involves an express prohibition of polygamy; and, indeed, there can be no doubt that the practice of having more wives than one is...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
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<strong>And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The central theme of Leviti...
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(14) **Eat of the holy thing unwittingly.**—Or, *through ignorance, *as it is rendered in the Authorised version in all the other five passages where this expression occurs in this book. (See Leviticus 4:2; Leviticus 4:22; Leviticus 4:27; Leviticus 5:15; Leviticus 5:18.) That is, when he ate of the things he was ignorant that they were holy.
**He shall put the fifth part thereof unto it.**—To make...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
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<strong>And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and the call for His people t...
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(15) **And they shall not profane.**—That is, the priests are not to desecrate the holy gifts of the Israelites by carelessly exposing them, and by not treating them with that sacred regard which is due to their being the bread of God.
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them. suffer: or, lade themselves with the iniquity of trespass in their eating
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<strong>Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and the call for...
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(16) **Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass.**—Better, *Moreover, they shall not cause them to bear the iniquity. *That is, not only are the priests themselves prohibited to treat with profanity the sacred gifts, but they are to realise that it is incumbent upon them to guard these sacrifices so carefully as not to cause the Israelites to contract sin by transgressing the laws by eating...
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**21. thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, &c.--**Molech, or Moloch, which signifies "king," was the idol of the Ammonites. His statue was of brass, and rested on a pedestal or throne of the same metal. His head, resembling that of a calf, was adorned with a crown, and his arms were extended in the attitude of embracing those who approached him. His devotees dedi...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled in reality through His incarnation, perfect life, atoning death, and...
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(17) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—The laws about the physical features and ceremonial purity of the priests, who are to be devoted to the services of the altar, are now followed by kindred precepts about the animals which are to be offered upon the altar.
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
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<strong>Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</st...
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(18) **And unto all the children of Israel.**—As the following laws presented the condition of the animals which the Israelites are to offer, they are addressed to the laity as well as to the priests.
**Whatsoever he be.**—Better, *what man soever there be, *as it is translated in the Authorised version Leviticus 17:3 (and see Note on Leviticus 17:8).
**Offer his oblation.**—Better, *offer his off...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
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<strong>Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sacrifice accomplishes what the Le...
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(19) **Ye shall offer at your own will a male.**—Better, *that it may be accepted for you it shall be a male; *or, *ye shall offer for your acceptance a male. *repeating the word offer; or, *for your acceptance it must be a male, *as the Authorised version renders the same phrase in Leviticus 22:20-21; Leviticus 22:27 (see Leviticus 1:3).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**24. Defile not yourselves in any of these things--**In the preceding verses seventeen express cases of incest are enumerated; comprehending eleven of affinity [Le 18:7-16], and six of consanguinity [Le 18:17-20], together with some criminal enormities of an aggravated and unnatural character. In such prohibitions it was necessary for the instruction of a people low in the scale of moral percepti...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
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<strong>But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who both sat...
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(20) **But whatsoever hath a blemish.**—Better. *whatsoever hath, *&c, without the “but,” which is not in the original, and is not wanted. The general rule is here repeated as an introduction to the cases which are immediately to be specified. It will be seen that only quadrupeds are given and that fowls are not alluded to, because when people brought birds the Law did not require any distinction ...
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**25. therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it; and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants--**The Canaanites, as enormous and incorrigible sinners, were to be exterminated; and this extermination was manifestly a judicial punishment inflicted by a ruler whose laws had been grossly and perseveringly outraged. But before a law can be disobeyed, it must have been previously in existenc...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. sheep: or, goats
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<strong>And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining s...
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(21) **A sacrifice of peace offerings.**—(See Leviticus 3:1.)
**To accomplish a vow.**—In fulfilment of a vow made in time of impending danger (Genesis 28:20-22; Jonah 1:16, &c.).
**Freewill offering.**—Generally brought in acknowledgment of mercies received.
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
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<strong>Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The ...
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(22) **Blind.**—Whether totally blind or only of one eye. This blemish also disqualified the priest for the service at the altar (see Leviticus 21:18).
**Or broken.**—Better, *broken-limbed *(see Exodus 22:9), extending to the head, ribs, &c.
**Or maimed.**—This was regarded in the time of the second Temple to describe a blemish in the eyebrow. Hence the Chaldee version translates it “one whose ey...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. lamb: or, kid
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<strong>Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The five...
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(23) **Either a bullock or a lamb.**—Better, *And bullock and one of the flock.*
**That hath any thing superfluous.**—That is one member of the animal being more elongated or contracted than the other, being out of proportion. The same blemish also unfitted the priest for performing sacerdotal functions (see Leviticus 21:18).
**Or lacking in his parts.**—This, according to the authorities during t...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
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<strong>Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The five main offerings (burnt, grai...
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(24) **That which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut.**—These four terms express the four ways which the ancients used to emasculate animals.
**Neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.**—Better, *and this shall ye not do in your land; *that is, not only are animals thus mutilated prohibited as offerings for the altar, but this practice of gelding is altogether forbidden to t...
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**29. the souls that commit them shall be cut off--**This strong denunciatory language is applied to all the crimes specified in the chapter without distinction: to incest as truly as to bestiality, and to the eleven cases of affinity [Le 18:7-16], as fully as to the six of consanguinity [Le 18:17-20]. Death is the punishment sternly denounced against all of them. No language could be more explici...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
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<strong>Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br>...
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(25) **Neither from a stranger’s hand shall ye offer.**—That is, the prohibition to sacrifice these animals is not restricted to beasts castrated in the land, but extends to all such as have been so treated out of the land, and are imported and sold to the Israelites by the hands of foreigners.
**Because their corruption is in them.**—That is, their mutilation is in them, though not effected by an...
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**30. Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs--**In giving the Israelites these particular institutions, God was only re-delivering the law imprinted on the natural heart of man; for there is every reason to believe that the incestuous alliances and unnatural crimes prohibited in this chapter were forbidden to all men by a law expressed or und...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Leviticus points forward to Jesus Christ, who fulfills the entire sacrificial system as both perfect sacrif...
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(26) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—Though beginning with a separate formula, and thus indicating that it is a distinct communication, the regulations here laid down about the age of the sacrificial animals are necessarily connected with the preceding statutes, and exhibit a logical sequence.
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
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<strong>When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining s...
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(27) **When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat—**The three sacrificial quadrupeds. (See Leviticus 22:19 and Leviticus 17:3-6.)
**Is brought forth.**—From this expression it was enacted during the second Temple that the animal fit for a sacrifice had to be born naturally. One brought into the world by artificial aid was disqualified for the altar.
**It shall be seven days under the dam.**—Under seven...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day. ewe: or, she goat
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<strong>And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled in reality through His in...
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(28) **Not kill it and her young both in one day.**—According to the ancient canons, this prohibition to slaughter the dam and its youngling the same day was not only designed to remind the Israelites of the sacred relations which exist between parent and offspring, but was especially intended to keep up feelings of humanity. Hence the ancient Chaldee version begins this injunction with the words,...
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CHAPTER 19 Le 19:1-37. A Repetition of Sundry Laws.
**2. Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel--**Many of the laws enumerated in this chapter had been previously announced. As they were, however, of a general application, not suited to particular classes, but to the nation at large, so Moses seems, according to divine instructions, to have rehearsed them, perhaps on different ...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.
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<strong>And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The five main offerings (burnt, grain, peace, sin, and guilt) addressed different aspec...
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(29) **Offer it at your own will.**—Better, *offer it for your acceptance. *(See Leviticus 22:19.) That is, offer it in such a manner that it should be accepted. (For this kind of offering, see Leviticus 7:15-16.)
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**3. Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths--**The duty of obedience to parents is placed in connection with the proper observance of the Sabbaths, both of them lying at the foundation of practical religion.
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
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<strong>On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all sacrifice supersedes the repeat...
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(30) **On the same day it shall be eaten.**—This shows that the sacrifice here spoken of belonged to the first class of peace offerings, the flesh of which had to be eaten up on the same day. (See Leviticus 7:15.)
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
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<strong>Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sacrifice accomplishes what the Levitical system could only symboli...
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(31) **Therefore shall ye keep my commandments.**—Better, *and ye shall keep my commandments. *The law about the priests and sacrifices now concludes with an appeal to both the priests and the people to faithfully observe these commandments.
**Neither shall ye profane my holy name.**—Better, *and ye shall not profane. *The rendering of the conjunctives, both in the former verse and in this, by “th...
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**5-8. if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will--**Those which included thank offerings, or offerings made for vows, were always freewill offerings. Except the portions which, being waved and heaved, became the property of the priests (see Le 3:1-17), the rest of the victim was eaten by the offerer and his friend, under the following regulations,...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,
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<strong>Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and the...
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**5-8. if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will--**Those which included thank offerings, or offerings made for vows, were always freewill offerings. Except the portions which, being waved and heaved, became the property of the priests (see Le 3:1-17), the rest of the victim was eaten by the offerer and his friend, under the following regulations,...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
Read full commentary →That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.
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<strong>That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Acceptable Sacrifices</strong>. Requirements for acceptable sacrifices and those who may eat sacred offerings, maintaining sacrifice quality.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who both satisfies God's righteous...
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(33) **That brought you out.**—By this signal act of redemption from bondage, and by choosing them as His peculiar people, God has a special claim upon His redeemed people that they should keep His commandments. (See Leviticus 11:45.)
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**5-8. if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will--**Those which included thank offerings, or offerings made for vows, were always freewill offerings. Except the portions which, being waved and heaved, became the property of the priests (see Le 3:1-17), the rest of the victim was eaten by the offerer and his friend, under the following regulations,...
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Chapter 22
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember, that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his or...
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