OIL FOR THE LAMPS. THE SHEWBREAD. LAWS ON BLASPHEMY 1-4. Oil for the Lamps in the Tabernacle. On the construction of the Lampstand see Exodus 25:31, and with the present passage cp. Exodus 27:20 and notes there. 5-9. The Table of Shewbread is described in Exodus 25:23 (see notes there). On this ta... [ Continue Reading ]
See on Exodus 12:38.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLASPHEMED THE NAME _of the Lord_] RV 'blasphemed the Name,' i.e. blasphemed Jehovah. The peculiar expression is due to some copyist who shrank, out of a feeling of reverence, from inserting the name of Jehovah in this connexion: see pn Exodus 3:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAY THEIR HANDS] devoting him to death and solemnly dissociating themselves from complicity in his guilt: cp. Deuteronomy 17:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS WELL THE STRANGER] This is the important legal point which the above incident is inserted to illustrate: cp. Leviticus 24:22. 17-22. Cp. Exodus 21:12; and notes there.... [ Continue Reading ]