King James Version
Leviticus 24
23 verses with commentary
Oil and Bread in the Tabernacle
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>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sacrifice accomplishes what the Levitical system could only symbolize—complete forg...
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XXIV.
(1) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—The regulations about the annual festivals and the ritual connected with them are now followed by directions with regard to the daily service and its ritual.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
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Chapter 24
Chapter Outline
Oil for the lamps, The shew-bread.
(1-9)
The law of blasphemy, blasphemer is stoned.(10-23)
**Verses 1-9**
The loaves of bread typify Christ as the Bread of life, and the food of the souls of his people. He is the Light of his church, the Light of the world; in and through his word this light shines. By this light we discern the food prepared for ou...
Read full commentary →Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. to cause: Heb. to cause to ascend
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<strong>Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br>Ritual purity laws taught Israe...
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(2) **Command the children of Israel.**—This is the only other occasion in Leviticus on which God orders Moses to “command,” instead of imparting or communicating His will. (See Leviticus 6:1 in Hebrew, and 6:9 in English.) This command, however, occurs almost literally in Exodus 27:20-21.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
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Chapter 24
Chapter Outline
Oil for the lamps, The shew-bread.
(1-9)
The law of blasphemy, blasphemer is stoned.(10-23)
**Verses 1-9**
The loaves of bread typify Christ as the Bread of life, and the food of the souls of his people. He is the Light of his church, the Light of the world; in and through his word this light shines. By this light we discern the food prepared for ou...
Read full commentary →Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
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<strong>Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishmen...
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(3) **Without the vail of the testimony.**—That is, the second vail, which divided the holy from the most holy. (See Exodus 27:21.)
**In the tabernacle of the congregation.**—Better, *in the tent of meeting.*
**A statute for ever in your generations.**—Better, *a statute for ever throughout your generations, *as this phrase is rendered in the Authorised Version in Leviticus 23:14; Leviticus 23:31,...
Read full commentary →Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
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Chapter 24
Chapter Outline
Oil for the lamps, The shew-bread.
(1-9)
The law of blasphemy, blasphemer is stoned.(10-23)
**Verses 1-9**
The loaves of bread typify Christ as the Bread of life, and the food of the souls of his people. He is the Light of his church, the Light of the world; in and through his word this light shines. By this light we discern the food prepared for ou...
Read full commentary →He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
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<strong>He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br>Ritual purity laws taught Israel to distinguish between clean and unclean, holy and co...
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(4) **The lamps upon the pure candlestick.**—Though it would appear from Exodus 25:31 that the candlestick was called pure because it was made entirely of pure gold, yet, according to the authorities during the second Temple, the order here is that “he shall arrange the lamps after having purified and made clean the candlestick, and removed all the cinders.”
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
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Chapter 24
Chapter Outline
Oil for the lamps, The shew-bread.
(1-9)
The law of blasphemy, blasphemer is stoned.(10-23)
**Verses 1-9**
The loaves of bread typify Christ as the Bread of life, and the food of the souls of his people. He is the Light of his church, the Light of the world; in and through his word this light shines. By this light we discern the food prepared for ou...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
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<strong>And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through C...
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(5) **And bake twelve cakes.**—The next order is about the preparation of the shewbread, and the use to be made of it. It was made in the following manner. Twenty-four seahs of wheat, which were brought as a meat offering, were beaten and ground, and after passing through twelve different sieves each finer than the other, twenty-four tenth-deals of the finest flour were obtained. The dough was kne...
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**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 24
Chapter Outline
Oil for the lamps, The shew-bread.
(1-9)
The law of blasphemy, blasphemer is stoned.(10-23)
**Verses 1-9**
The loaves of bread typify Christ as the Bread of life, and the food of the souls of his people. He is the Light of his church, the Light of the world; in and through his word this light shines. By this light we discern the food prepared for ou...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
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<strong>And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br>Ritual purity laws taught Israel to distinguish between clean and unclean, hol...
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(6) **In two rows, six on a row.**—Better, *in two piles, six on a pile. *The table on which the cakes are here ordered to be put stood along the northern or most sacred side of the holy place. Like all the sacred furniture, except the Ark of the Covenant, it was ranged lengthways of the sanctuary. It was one cubit and a half, or nine handbreadths high; the surface board or plate was two cubits, o...
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**7-19. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy--**The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated shows their sad prevalence amongst the idolatrous nations around, and the extreme proneness of the Israelites to follow the customs of their neighbors. It is to be understood, that, whenever mention is made that the offender was "to be put to death" without descr...
Read full commentary →Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 24
Chapter Outline
Oil for the lamps, The shew-bread.
(1-9)
The law of blasphemy, blasphemer is stoned.(10-23)
**Verses 1-9**
The loaves of bread typify Christ as the Bread of life, and the food of the souls of his people. He is the Light of his church, the Light of the world; in and through his word this light shines. By this light we discern the food prepared for ou...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
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<strong>And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br>The five main offerings (...
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(7) **Shalt put pure frankincense upon each row.**—Better, *shalt place pure frankincense by each pile. *As the two piles of six cakes each measured together ten handbreadths in width, and as the length of the table was twelve handbreadths, there was a vacant space of two handbreadths left on the table for the two bowls with frankincense. The vacant place in question may, therefore, (1) have been ...
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**20. they shall die childless--**Either by the judgment of God they shall have no children, or their spurious offspring shall be denied by human authority the ordinary privileges of children in Israel.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Chapter 24
Chapter Outline
Oil for the lamps, The shew-bread.
(1-9)
The law of blasphemy, blasphemer is stoned.(10-23)
**Verses 1-9**
The loaves of bread typify Christ as the Bread of life, and the food of the souls of his people. He is the Light of his church, the Light of the world; in and through his word this light shines. By this light we discern the food prepared for ou...
Read full commentary →Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
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<strong>Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual...
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(8) **Every sabbath he shall set it in order.**—That is, Aaron is to carry out these instructions in the first instance, as we are told in Leviticus 24:3, and after him, or together with him, the priests are sacredly to attend to this duty every sabbath throughout the year. Of the manner in which the shewbread, or the *“*bread of His Presence,” was renewed every Sabbath during the second Temple, w...
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Chapter 24
Chapter Outline
Oil for the lamps, The shew-bread.
(1-9)
The law of blasphemy, blasphemer is stoned.(10-23)
**Verses 1-9**
The loaves of bread typify Christ as the Bread of life, and the food of the souls of his people. He is the Light of his church, the Light of the world; in and through his word this light shines. By this light we discern the food prepared for ou...
Read full commentary →And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
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<strong>And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name...
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(9) **And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.**—In accordance with this statute, the twelve cakes were divided during the second Temple between the high priest and the officiating priests, the former had six, and the latter had six, among them.
**They shall eat it in the holy place.**—Of the many things connected with the national service which became the perquisites of the priests, there were eigh...
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Chapter 24
Chapter Outline
Oil for the lamps, The shew-bread.
(1-9)
The law of blasphemy, blasphemer is stoned.(10-23)
**Verses 1-9**
The loaves of bread typify Christ as the Bread of life, and the food of the souls of his people. He is the Light of his church, the Light of the world; in and through his word this light shines. By this light we discern the food prepared for ou...
Read full commentary →Punishment for Blasphemy
And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian , went out among the children of Israel : and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
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<strong>And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing revere...
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(10) **The son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian.**—The name of the Israelitish woman, whose son is the subject of the narrative before us, we are afterwards told was Shelomith. She had married an Egyptian whilst she and her people were still in Egypt. Though the father’s nationality is here expressly given, yet from the fact that he does not personally come before us in this i...
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**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
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<strong>And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing revere...
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(11) **Blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed.**—Better, *cursed the Name and reviled. *In accordance with the above interpretation, this happened after sentence was given against him, and when they had left the court. Being vexed with the Divine enactments which excluded him from encamping in the tribe of his mother, he both cursed God who gave such law, and reviled the judges who pronounced...
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**24. I ... have separated you from other people--**Their selection from the rest of the nations was for the all-important end of preserving the knowledge and worship of the true God amid the universal apostasy; and as the distinction of meats was one great means of completing that separation, the law about making a difference between clean and unclean beasts is here repeated with emphatic solemni...
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**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them. that: Heb. to expound unto them according to the mouth of the LORD
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KJV Study Commentary
<strong>And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who both satisfies G...
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(12) **And they put him in ward.**—That is, to keep him in safe custody till he had been tried. In the Mosaic legislation confinement in a prison for a certain period as a punishment for an offence is nowhere enacted.
**That the mind of the Lord might be shewed them.**—Better, *that he might direct them according t***o ***the command of the Lord, *as the Authorised Version renders this phrase in E...
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**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →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>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully regulated is now freely available through Christ's blood, tearing the...
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(13) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—In none of these instances, however, is it stated how and where Moses made this appeal to God, whether he inquired by means of the Urim and Thummim, or otherwise. As God promised to reveal His will to Moses from the mercy-seat between the cherubim (Exodus 25:22), it is probable that the lawgiver received the Divine directions in the sanctuary.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
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KJV Study Commentary
<strong>Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 ...
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(14) **Bring forth him that hath cursed.**—The sentence which God now passes upon the blasphemer is that he should be conducted from prison outside the camp, where all unclean persons had to abide (Numbers 5:2-3), and where malefactors were executed (Hebrews 13:12-13).
**Let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head.**—That is, the witnesses who heard him blaspheme, and upon whose evidence ...
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**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
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<strong>And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all sacrifice ...
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(15) **Whosoever curseth his God.**—As Moses had to appeal to God for direction, the Lord has not only declared what should be done with this particular offender, but lays down a general law for the punishment of blasphemers. As the criminal who is the immediate occasion of this enactment is an Egyptian, directions are given, in the first place, about the treatment of Gentiles who temporarily sojo...
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**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
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<strong>And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and...
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(16) **And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord.**—Better, *And he that curseth the name of the Lord. *The case is, however, different when it is the God of Israel. It is henceforth to be the law that whosoever curses Jehovah is to suffer death by lapidation, which is to be inflicted upon the criminal by the Jewish community.
**As well the stranger as he that is born in the land.**—This law is...
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CHAPTER 21 Le 21:1-24. Of the Priests' Mourning.
**1. There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people--**The obvious design of the regulations contained in this chapter was to keep inviolate the purity and dignity of the sacred office. Contact with a corpse, or even contiguity to the place where it lay, entailing ceremonial defilement (Nu 19:14), all mourners were debarred from the tabe...
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**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death. killeth: Heb. smiteth the life of a man
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<strong>And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully regulated is now freely available through Christ's...
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(17) **And he that killeth a man.**—The enactment that in case of blaspheming no difference is to be made between a non-Israelite and Israelite, is now followed by other laws respecting murder and personal injury which have been given before (Exodus 21:12, &c.), but which are here repeated in order to show that, like blasphemy, they apply alike to Gentile and Jew. It may also be that the repetitio...
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**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast. beast for: Heb. life for life
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KJV Study Commentary
<strong>And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Leviticus points forward to Jesus Christ, who fulfills the entire s...
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(18) **And he that killeth a beast.**—The law about killing a human being is now followed by the enaetments with regard to killing a beast. He who kills an animal has to make it good by giving another animal for it. The case is not the same as that legislated for in Exodus 21:33-34.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
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KJV Study Commentary
<strong>And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled i...
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(19, 20) **And if a man cause a blemish.**—See Exodus 21:24-25.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**4. But he shall not defile himself--**"for any other," as the sense may be fully expressed. "The priest, in discharging his sacred functions, might well be regarded as a chief man among his people, and by these defilements might be said to profane himself" [Bishop Patrick]. The word rendered "chief man" signifies also "a husband"; and the sense according to others is, "But he being a husband, sh...
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**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
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<strong>Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus become...
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**5. They shall not make baldness upon their heads ... nor ... cuttings in their flesh--**The superstitious marks of sorrow, as well as the violent excesses in which the heathen indulged at the death of their friends, were forbidden by a general law to the Hebrew people (Le 19:28). But the priests were to be laid under a special injunction, not only that they might exhibit examples of piety in the...
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**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
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<strong>And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all sacrifice s...
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(21) **And he that killeth a beast.**—This verse contains a repetition of the laws enacted in Leviticus 24:17-18.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.
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<strong>Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing reverence for God's name.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and ...
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(22) **Ye shall have one manner of law.**—Not in the case of blasphemy (see Leviticus 24:16), but in all the instances just adduced, the same penal statutes apply to the non-Israelite and stranger.
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**7-9. They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane--**Private individuals might form several connections, which were forbidden as inexpedient or improper in priests. The respectability of their office, and the honor of religion, required unblemished sanctity in their families as well as themselves, and departures from it in their case were visited with severer punishment than in that of...
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**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
Read full commentary →And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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<strong>And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Oil, Bread, and Blasphemy</strong>. Instructions for tabernacle maintenance and the account of a blasphemer's punishment, showing rev...
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(23) **And Moses spake to the children of Israel.**—Having recited the laws which were promulgated in consequence of the appeal made to God, Moses now calls upon the people to execute the sentence which the Lord pronounced against the blasphemer.
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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**7-9. They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane--**Private individuals might form several connections, which were forbidden as inexpedient or improper in priests. The respectability of their office, and the honor of religion, required unblemished sanctity in their families as well as themselves, and departures from it in their case were visited with severer punishment than in that of...
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**Verses 10-23**
This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites,...
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