INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 28 In this chapter is a repetition of several laws concerning sacrifices, as the law of the daily sacrifice morning and evening, Numbers 28:1 of those that were offered every week on the sabbath day, Numbers 28:9 and every month on the first day of the month, Numbers 28:11... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES,.... The number of the children of Israel being taken, and orders given to divide the land unto them, according to their numbers; it was thought proper by the Lord to renew, or to put in mind of, the laws concerning sacrifices which had been made, and which they were to... [ Continue Reading ]
COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM,.... For what follows concerned them all; namely, the offering of their daily, weekly, monthly, and anniversary sacrifices, which were not for private persons, but for the whole congregation; and these might be considered by them not merely as comman... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM,.... Having directed Moses to command the people of Israel to observe to offer all the sacrifices of God in general, the Lord proceeds to order him to speak of them to them particularly and distinctly; this, according to Jarchi, is an admonition to the sanhedrim: THIS I... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ONE LAMB SHALT THOU OFFER IN THE MORNING,.... Every morning, to make atonement for the sins of the night, as the Targum of Jonathan: AND THE OTHER LAMB SHALL THOU OFFER AT EVEN; or "between the two evenings", to make atonement for the sins of the day, as the same Targum; in which they prefigure... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE TENTH PART OF AN EPHAH OF FLOUR FOR A MEAT OFFERING,.... Which always went along with the burnt offering: MINGLED WITH THE FOURTH PART OF AN HIN OF BEATEN OIL: which in those times and countries was used instead of butter; and fine flour and this mingled together made a "minchah", or bread... [ Continue Reading ]
IT IS A CONTINUAL BURNT OFFERING,.... For the meat offering was burnt as well as the lambs, at least part of it: WHICH WAS ORDAINED IN MOUNT SINAI FOR A SWEET SAVOUR, A SACRIFICE MADE BY FIRE UNTO THE LORD; that is, this law concerning the daily burnt offering was made on Mount Sinai, so long ago a... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE DRINK OFFERING THEREOF [SHALL BE] THE FOURTH [PART] OF AN HIN FOR THE ONE LAMB,.... For the lamb offered in the morning, along with the meat offering of which went a drink offering, which was of wine, and strong wine too, as the next clause expresses it; the quantity of which was the fourth... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE OTHER LAMB SHALT THOU OFFER AT EVEN,.... As before directed, Numbers 28:4: AS THE MEAT OFFERING OF THE MORNING, AND AS THE DRINK OFFERING THEREOF, SHALT THOU OFFER IT; some think that "caph", "as", is put for "beth", "with", the letters being similar, and so render the words, "with the meat... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ON THE SABBATH DAY TWO LAMBS OF THE FIRST YEAR WITHOUT SPOT,.... Just such as were appointed for the daily sacrifice: AND TWO TENTH DEALS OF FLOUR FOR A MEAT OFFERING, MINGLED WITH OIL; that is, two tenth parts of an ephah of flour mixed with two fourth parts of an hin of oil; of oil olive, as... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS THE BURNT OFFERING OF EVERY SABBATH,.... Or, "of the sabbath in its sabbath" f, that is, as Jarchi observes, the burnt offering of one sabbath was not to be offered on another, but only on its own; so that if the sabbath was past, and the offering not offered, it ceased; it was not to be ren... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THE BEGINNINGS OF YOUR MONTHS YE SHALL OFFER A BURNT OFFERING UNTO THE LORD,.... On the first day of every month, when the new moon appeared; that this was religiously observed appears from the blowing of the trumpets over the sacrifices on this day, from attendance on the word of the Lord, b... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 12-14. AND THREE TENTH DEALS OF FINE FLOUR FOR A MEAT OFFERING, MINGLED WITH OIL, FOR ONE BULLOCK,.... The quantities of flour in the meat offering, for each bullock, and for the ram, and for each lamb, are the same as in Numbers 15:4 only the quantity of oil for each is not here expressed, whi... [ Continue Reading ]
Numbers 28:12... [ Continue Reading ]
Numbers 28:12... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ONE KID OF THE GOATS, FOR A SIN OFFERING UNTO THE LORD, SHALL BE OFFERED,.... This was an offering of a different sort, not a burnt offering, but a sin offering, typical of Christ, who was made an offering for sin; and it was of that sort of sin offerings which were to be eaten, as the Jews say... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH,.... The month Nisan, as the Targum of Jonathan or Abib, which, upon the Israelites coming out of Egypt, and on that account, was made the first month; otherwise Tisri or September was the first month, see Exodus 12:2, [IS] THE PASSOVER OF THE LORD; a fe... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THIS MONTH IS THE FEAST,.... Not of the passover, that was the day before, but of unleavened bread, which began on this day, and lasted seven days, Leviticus 23:6 which is what the Jews call the Chagigah: SEVEN DAYS SHALL UNLEAVENED BREAD BE EATEN; see Exodus 12:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE FIRST DAY SHALL BE AN HOLY CONVOCATION,.... The first of the seven days, which was kept in a very religious manner: YE SHALL DO NO MANNER OF SERVILE WORK THEREIN; except by preparing food to eat; see Exodus 12:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT YE SHALL OFFER A SACRIFICE MADE BY FIRE FOR A BURNT OFFERING UNTO THE LORD,.... Which was to be of the creatures next mentioned: TWO YOUNG BULLOCKS, c. the same with the burnt offering on the first day of the month, Numbers 28:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 20,21. AND THEIR MEAT OFFERING,.... The quantity of flour for which is the same for a bullock, a ram, and a lamb, as in Numbers 28:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
Numbers 28:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ONE GOAT [FOR] A SIN OFFERING, TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR YOU. For notwithstanding all their services and sacrifices, and though this day was an holy convocation, yet there was need of a sin offering to expiate their guilt, typical of Christ, who takes away the sins of our holy things as well as all... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL OFFER THESE BESIDE THE BURNT OFFERING IN THE MORNING,.... The daily morning sacrifice, and also besides the daily evening sacrifices, though it is not expressed: WHICH IS FOR A CONTINUAL BURNT OFFERING; and not to be intermitted on any account, let the sacrifices of the day be ever so nume... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THIS MANNER YE SHALL OFFER DAILY THROUGHOUT THE SEVEN DAYS,.... That is, two bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs, for a burnt offering, on everyone of the seven days; but then they were not all holy convocations, only the first and last: THE MEAT OF THE SACRIFICE MADE BY FIRE, OF A SWEET SAVOU... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY YE SHALL HAVE AN HOLY CONVOCATION,.... As on the first: YE SHALL DO NO SERVILE WORK; unless in dressing food.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALSO IN THE DAY OF THE FIRSTFRUITS,.... When the firstfruits of the wheat harvest were brought unto the Lord, which was the day of Pentecost, fifty days from the sheaf of the wave offering being brought: WHEN YE BRING A NEW MEAT OFFERING UNTO THE LORD; that is, a meat offering made of the new corn,... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 27-30. BUT YE SHALL OFFER THE BURNT OFFERING FOR A SWEET SAVOUR UNTO THE LORD,.... Which was of the same kind, and was of the same number of creatures as on the first day of the month, and on the seven days of unleavened bread, Numbers 28:11, and the meat offering which went along with this was... [ Continue Reading ]
Numbers 28:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
Numbers 28:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
Numbers 28:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE SHALL OFFER THEM BESIDES THE CONTINUAL BURNT OFFERING, AND HIS MEAT OFFERING,.... The daily sacrifice of the morning and evening, so often mentioned in this chapter, and so frequently inculcated as not to be omitted, either in the weekly, monthly, or anniversary festivals; it being so necessa... [ Continue Reading ]