Leviticus 1:1
TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION] RV 'tent of meeting': see on Exodus 25:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION] RV 'tent of meeting': see on Exodus 25:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BURNT OFFERING This is mentioned first as being the most general form of sacrifice. Its characteristic feature is the consumption of the entire animal by fire upon the altar, for which reason it is also described as the 'whole burnt offering' (1 Samuel 7:9, cp. Psalms 51:19). The victims are oxe... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL] The instructions in Leviticus 1:1 to Leviticus 6:7 are for the laity. Those addressed to the priests follow in Leviticus 6:8 to Leviticus 7:38. OFFERING] RV 'oblation': the general name for a sacrifice or votive offering. The Heb. word is _Corban_, which means a thing 'brought ne... [ Continue Reading ]
MALE WITHOUT BLEMISH] What is offered to God must be the best of its kind: see on Leviticus 22:17 and on Exodus 12:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT HIS HAND UPON THE HEAD] This signifies the surrender of the animal to God, and, though this is not so clear, the transference of the offerer's guilt to it. In doing so he made a confession of his sins: cp. Leviticus 3:2. MAKE ATONEMENT] lit. 'put a covering over him,' i.e. screen his unworthines... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL KILL] The subject is the offerer. The blood represents the life, and is sprinkled upon the altar in token that the offerer yields his life to God, in expiation of his sins and in consecration to His service.... [ Continue Reading ]
NORTHWARD] On the E. side was the place for ashes and refuse (Leviticus 1:16); on the W. stood the laver and the Holy of Holies; the ascent to the altar was on the S. side. The N. side, accordingly, was the most convenient place of slaughter.... [ Continue Reading ]
A SWEET SAVOUR] see on Exodus 29:18. THE LAW OF SACRIFICE What is recorded here is not the institution of the rite of sacrifice, which is assumed to be already in existence (see Leviticus 1:2), but its regulation in matters of detail. It did not originate among the Israelites; it is a primitive and... [ Continue Reading ]