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Leviticus 3
Directions concerning peace-offerings. A bullock or an heifer,
ver. 1-5. A lamb, ver. 6-11. A goat, ver. 12-16. No fat or blood to
be eaten, ver. 17.
Verse 1. A peace-offering - This was an offering for peace and
prosperity, and the blessing of God, either,
1. obtained, and so it was a thank-offering, or,
2. desired; and so it was a kind of supplication to God. A female -
Which were allowed here, tho' not in burnt-offerings, because
those principally respected the honour of God, who is to be served
with the best; but the peace-offerings did primarily respect the
benefit of the offerer, and therefore the choice was left to himself.
Burnt-offerings had regard to God, as in himself the best of
beings, and therefore were wholly burned. But peace-offerings
had regard to God as a benefactor to his creatures, and therefore
were divided between the altar, the priest, and the offerer.
Verse 2. At the door - Not on the north-side of the altar, where the burnt-
offering was killed, as also the sin-offering, and the trespass-
offering, but in the very entrance of the court where the brazen
altar stood, which place was not so holy as the other; as appears
both because it was more remote from the holy of holies, and
because the ashes of the sacrifices were to be laid here. And the
reason of this difference is not obscure, both because part of this
sacrifice was to be waved by the hands of the offerer, chap. vii,
30, who might not come into the court; and because this offering
was not so holy as the others, which were to be eaten only by the
priest, whereas part of these were eaten by the offerer.
Verse 5. Upon the burnt sacrifice - Either,
1. Upon the remainders of it, which were yet burning; or rather,
2. After it; for the daily burnt-offering was first to be offered, both
as more eminently respecting God's honour; and as the most
solemn and stated sacrifice, which should take place of all
occasional oblations, and as a sacrifice of an higher nature, being
for atonement, without which no peace could be obtained, nor
peace offering offered with acceptance.
Verse 9. The rump - Which in sheep is fat, and sweet, and in these parts
was very much larger and better than ours.
Verse 11. Burnt it - The parts now mentioned; the rest fell to the priest,
chap. vii, 31. The food - That is, the fuel of the fire, or the matter
of the offering. It is called food, Hebrew. bread, to note God's
acceptance of it, and delight in it; as men delight in their food.
Verse 16. Shall burn them - The parts mentioned, among which the tail
is not one, as it was in the sheep. because that in goats is a refuse
part. All the fat - This is to be limited,
1. To those beasts, which were offered or offerable in sacrifice, as
it is explained, chap. vii, 23, 25.
2. To that kind of fat which is above-mentioned, and required to
be offered, which was separated, or easily separable from the
flesh for the fat which was here and there mixed with the flesh
they might eat.
Verse 17. All your dwellings - Not only at or near the tabernacle, not
only of those beasts which you actually sacrifice, but also in your
several dwellings, and of all that kind of beasts. Fat - Was
forbidden,
1. To preserve the reverence of the holy rites and sacrifices.
2. That they might be taught hereby to acknowledge God as their
Lord, and the Lord of all the creatures, who might reserve what he
pleased to himself.
3. To exercise them in obedience to God, and self-denial and
mortification of their appetites, even in those things which
probably many of them would much desire. Blood - Was
forbidden partly to maintain reverence to God and his worship;
partly out of opposition to idolaters, who used to drink the blood
of their sacrifices; partly with respect to Christ's Blood, thereby
manifestly signified. God would not permit the very shadows of
this to be used as a common thing. Nor will he allow us, tho' we
have the comfort of the atonement made, to assume to ourselves
any share in the honour of making it.
Chapter 3:
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