Numbers 15
1 The law of the meat offering, and the drink offering.14 The stranger is under the same law.17 The law of the first of the dough for an heave offering.22 The sacrifice for sins of ignorance.30 The punishment of presumption.32 He that violated the sabbath is stoned.37 The law of fringes. It is very probable, that the transactions recorded in this and the four following chapters took place during the time the Israelites abode in Kadesh (De 1:46.) 1 18; Le 14:34; 23:10; 25:2; De 7:1,2; 12:1,9 will make.Ex 29:18,25,41; Le 1:2,3,9,13,17; 10:13a burnt.Le 1:1-17a sacrifice.Le 7:16; 22:18-23; De 12:11performing. Heb. separating.Le 27:2or in a free-will.Le 22:21,23; De 12:6,17; 16:10in your.28:16-19,27; 29:1,2,8,13-40; Le 23:8,12,36; De 16:1-17a sweet.Ge 8:21; Ex 29:18; Mt 3:17; Eph 5:2; Php 4:18the herd.Under the term {bakar,} are comprehended the ox, heifer, etc; and under {tzon,} are included sheep and goats. The animals enjoined in the Levitical law are the very same which commanded Abraham to offer. (Ge 15:9.) Hence it is evident, that God delivered to the patriarchs an epitome of that law which was afterwards given in detail to Moses, the essence of which consisted in its sacrifices; and these sacrifices were of clean animals, the most perfect, useful, and healthy of all that are brought under the immediate government of man. Gross feeding and ferocious animals were all excluded, as well as all birds of prey. a meat.Ex 29:40; Le 2:1; 6:14; 7:9,10; 23:13; Isa 66:20; Mal 1:11; Ro 15:16Heb 13:16the fourth.28:5-8; Ex 29:40; Le 2:15; 14:10; 23:13; Jud 9:9; Eze 46:14 28:7,14; Jud 9:13; Ps 116:13; So 1:4; Zec 9:17; Mt 26:28,29Php 2:17; 2Ti 4:6 4; 28:12-14 7 peace.Le 3:1; 7:11-18 with a.28:12,14a meat.29:6; Le 6:14; 7:37; 14:10; 1Ch 21:23; Ne 10:33; Eze 42:13Eze 46:5,7,11,15; Joe 1:9; 2:14 5; 6:15 28 12 13 14 One.29; 9:14; Ex 12:49; Le 24:22; Ga 3:28; Eph 2:11-22; Col 3:11an ordinance.10:8; 18:8; Ex 12:14,24,43; 1Sa 30:25 16 17 2; De 26:1-15 The oblation before prescribed seems to have been a general acknowledgment from the people at large; but this was an oblation from every one that reaped a harvest: who was required, previously to tasting it himself, to offer a portion of dough as a heave-offering to the Lord. This is supposed to have been given to the priests in their several cities, and not carried to the tabernacle. Jos 5:11,12 a cake.18:12; Ex 23:19; De 26:2-10; Ne 10:37; Pr 3:9,10; Eze 44:30Mt 6:33; Ro 11:16; 1Co 15:20; Jas 1:18; Re 14:4the heave-offering.Le 2:14; 23:20,16,17 18:26; Ex 29:28 This law concerning sins of ignorance, being entirely diverse from one before considered, occasions considerable difficulty. (Le ch. 4.) Some explain that law as relating to sins of commission, this to sins of omission: others explain the one of inadvertent violations of the moral law, and the other of the transgressions of the ceremonial law: and some think that related to the whole nation, this to any one tribe; or that to the bulk of the nation, this to the rulers and elders. The Jews say, that the former law referred to such national transgressions through heedlessness, as consisted with the maintenance of the prescribed worship in the main; but that this especially respected the case of the nation, when through inattention, and the example and authority of wicked rulers, they had turned aside and committed idolatry, or conducted their worship directly contrary to law; yet through a culpable ignorance, and not in presumption. This was evidently the case under several of their kings; and the explanation seems well grounded. Le 4:2,13,14,22,27; 5:13,15-17; Ps 19:12; Lu 12:48 23 if ought.Le 4:13without. Heb. from the eyes. one young bullock.Le 4:14-21with his.8-10manner. or, ordinance. one kid.28:15; Le 4:23; 2Ch 29:21-24; Ezr 6:17; 8:35 the priest.Le 4:20,26; Ro 3:25; 1Jo 2:2forgiven them.Lu 23:34; Ac 13:39 26 Le 4:27,28; Ac 3:17; 17:30; 1Ti 1:13 Le 4:35 one law.15; 9:14; Le 16:29; 17:15; Ro 3:29,30sinneth. Heb. doeth. doeth ought.9:13; 14:44; Ge 17:14; Ex 21:14; Le 20:3,6,10; De 1:43; 17:12De 29:19,20; Ps 19:13; Mt 12:32; Heb 10:26,29; 2Pe 2:10presumptuously. Heb. with an high hand.That is, bold, daring, deliberate acts of transgression against the fullest evidence, and in despite of the Divine authority. Such conduct "reproacheth the Lord," as if his commands were needless, unreasonable, and inimical to the happiness of man; his favour were not desirable, or his wrath not to be feared: in short, as if it were more advantageous to rebel against him than to serve him. Such acts admitted of no atonement: the person was condemned to bear his own iniquity, and to be cut off. reproacheth.Ps 69:9; 74:18,22; 79:12; 89:51; Pr 14:31; Isa 37:23,24 despised.Le 26:15,43; 2Sa 12:9; Ps 119:126; Pr 13:13; Isa 30:12; 1Th 4:8Heb 10:28,29his iniquity.Le 5:1; Ps 38:4; Isa 53:6; Eze 18:20; 1Pe 2:24; 2Pe 2:21 they found a man.This example seems to have been evidently introduced to illustrate the foregoing law. The man despised the word of the Lord, presumptuously broke his commandment, and on this ground was punished with death. Ex 16:23,27,28; 20:8-10; 35:2,3 Joh 8:3-20 Le 24:12 The man.Ex 31:14,15stone him.Le 24:14,23; 1Ki 21:13; Ac 7:58; Heb 13:11,12 Jos 7:25 37 fringes in the borders.The word {tzitzith} properly denotes an ornament resembling a flower. From ver. 39, we learn that these were emblematical of the commands of God. That there is any analogy between a fringe and a precept, it would be bold to assert; but when a thing is appointed to represent another, no matter how different, that first object becomes the legitimate representative or sign of the other. De 22:12; Mt 9:20; 23:5; Lu 8:44 remember.Ex 13:9; De 6:6-9; 11:18-21,28-32; Pr 3:1ye seek not.De 29:19; Job 31:7; Pr 28:26; Ec 11:9; Jer 9:14; Eze 6:9go a whoring.Ex 34:15,16; Ps 73:27; 106:39; Ho 2:2; Jas 4:4 be holy.Le 11:44,45; 19:2; Ro 12:1; Eph 1:4; Col 1:2; 1Th 4:7; 1Pe 1:15,16 Le 22:33; 25:38; Ps 105:45; Jer 31:31-33; 32:37-41; Eze 36:25-27Heb 11:16; 1Pe 2:9,10
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