VOWS AND TITHES AND THEIR REDEMPTION 1-29. Law of vows and their redemption. The making of vows is a very ancient and universal practice connected with prayer. In order to secure his desire the suppliant adds a vow to his prayer. Vows may be either positive or negative. A man may promise either to... [ Continue Reading ]
SINGULAR VOW] a special vow devoting himself or any of his family to God.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIFTY SHEKELS] about £6 10_s_: see on Leviticus 5:15. 9-13. If a man dedicates an animal and wishes to redeem it, he must pay its estimated value and one-fifth more.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREOF MEN BRING AN OFFERING] i.e. one of the sacrificial animals, a bullock, sheep, or goat.... [ Continue Reading ]
See Malachi 1:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
As it is unlawful to sacrifice unclean animals they must be redeemed and the equivalent value plus a fifth paid into the sanetuary. 14, 15. The redemption of a dedicated house follows the same rule. 16-25. The redemption of a dedicated piece of land is complicated by the law of Jubilee (Leviticus 2... [ Continue Reading ]
HOMER] ten ephahs, or nearly eleven bushels. The value of barley is here stated to be about £6 10s.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THAT DAY] The estimated value of a purchased piece of land must be paid in a lump sum. The estimated value of a hereditary possession, it would appear, was paid in yearly instalments. This practically meant that, till the Jubilee, the dedicant paid to the sanctuary a yearly rent of one shekel per... [ Continue Reading ]
Firstlings, which already belong to God (Exodus 13:2), cannot be vowed again without mockery.... [ Continue Reading ]
Firstlings of unclean animals must be redeemed in the usual manner. In Exodus 13:13; Exodus 34:20 the law is that such must either be redeemed with a lamb or killed. The law seems to have varied at different times.... [ Continue Reading ]
Devoted things are those consecrated to God by an extreme form of vow, the ban or curse, requiring their destruction or inalienable devotion to the sanctuary: see Numbers 18:14; Deuteronomy 13:17; Joshua 6:17; Joshua 6:21; 1 Samuel 15:3; 1 Samuel 15:9; 1 Samuel 15:20. This form of vow is specially l... [ Continue Reading ]
DEVOTED OF MEN] see Exodus 22:20, where the Hebrew is 'shall be devoted.' There the 'devotion of men 'is the solemn judicial penalty of idolatry. This was probably the only ground of devoting human beings. The case of Jephthah's daughter is doubtful: see Judges 11:30. 30-33. The Law of Tithes and th... [ Continue Reading ]
PASSETTI UNDER THE ROD] of the owner as he counts his cattle. Every tenth beast as it comes, whether good or bad, is to be set apart as belonging to God: cp. Leviticus 25:10. The tithes were given to the Levites for their maintenance, and they in turn tithed their own tithes: see Numbers 18:20.... [ Continue Reading ]