Chapter 15:
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Numbers 15
Laws, concerning meal-offerings and drink offerings, ver. 1-16. Concerning dough for heave-offerings, ver. 17-21. Sacrifices for sins of ignorance, ver. 22-29. Concerning presumptuous
sinners, ver. 30, 31. An instance in the sabbath-breaker, ver. 32-36. Concerning fringes on the borders of their garments, ver. 37-41.
Verse 2. I give you - Will certainly give you, not withstanding this great
provocation. And for their better assurance hereof he repeats and
amplifies the laws of sacrifices, whereby through Christ he would
be reconciled to them and theirs upon their repentance.
Verse 3. A sacrifice - A peace-offering.
Verse 4. A tenth deal - The tenth part of an Ephah, that is, about five
pints. An hin contained about five quarts.
Verse 6. Two tenth-deals - Because this belonged to a better sacrifice
than the former; and therefore in the next sacrifice of a bullock,
there are three tenth deals. So the accessory sacrifice grows
proportionably with the principal.
Verse 8. Peace-offerings - Such as were offered either freely or by
command, which may be called peace-offerings or thank-
offerings, by way of eminency, because such are offered purely
by way of gratitude to God, and with single respect to his honour,
whereas the peace-offerings made in performance of a vow were
made and offered, with design of getting some advantage by
them.
Verse 12. Their number - As many cattle as ye sacrifice, so many meal
and drink-offerings ye shall offer.
Verse 15. Before the Lord - As to the worship of God: his sacrifices
shall be offered in the same manner and accepted by God upon
the same terms, as yours: which was a presage of the future
calling of the Gentiles. And this is added by way of caution, to
shew that strangers were not upon this pretense to partake of their
civil privileges.
Verse 19. When ye eat - When you are about to eat it: for before they eat
it, they were to offer this offering to God. The bread - That is, the
bread-corn.
Verse 20. The threshing floor - That is, of the corn in the threshing floor, when you have gathered in your corn.
Verse 22. All these commandments - Those now spoken of, which
concern the outward service of God, or the rites or ceremonies
belonging to it. And herein principally this law may seem to differ
from that Lev. iv, 13, which speaks of some positive miscarriage,
or doing that which ought not to have been done, about the holy
things of God; whereas this speaks only of an omission of
something which ought to have been done about holy ceremonies.
Verse 30. Reproacheth the Lord - He sets God at defiance, and exposeth
him to contempt, as if he were unable to punish transgressors.
Verse 32. On the sabbath-day - This seems to be added as an example of
a presumptuous sin: for as the law of the sabbath was plain and
positive, so this transgression of it must needs be a known and
wilful sin.
Verse 33. To all the congregation - That is, to the rulers of the
congregation.
Verse 34. They - That is, Moses and Aaron, and the seventy rulers. What
should be done - That is, in what manner he was to be cut off, or
by what kind of death he was to die, which therefore God here
particularly determines: otherwise it was known in general that
sabbath-breakers were to be put to death.
Verse 38. Fringes - These were certain threads or ends, standing out a
little further than the rest of their garments, lest there for this use.
In the borders - That is, in the four borders or quarters, as it is,
Deut. xxii, 12. Of their garments - Of their upper garments. This
was practiced by the Pharisees in Christ's time, who are noted for
making their borders larger than ordinary. A ribband - To make it
more obvious to the sight, and consequently more serviceable to
the use here mentioned. Of blue - Or, purple.
Verse 39. For a fringe - That is, the ribband, shall be unto you, shall
serve you for a fringe, to render it more visible by its distinct
colour, whereas the fringe without this was of the same piece and
colour with the garment, and therefore less observeable. That ye
seek not - Or, inquire not for other rules and ways of serving me
than I have prescribed you. Your own heart, and eyes - Neither
after the devices of your own hearts, as Nadab and Abihu did
when they offered strange fire; nor after the examples of others
which your eyes see, as you did when you were set upon
worshipping a calf after the manner of Egypt. The phylacteries
worn by the Pharisees in our Lord's time, were a different thing
from these. Those were of their own invention: these were a
divine institution.
Verse 40. Be ye holy - Purged from sin and sincerely devoted to God.
Verse 41. I am the Lord your God - Though I am justly displeased with
you for your frequent rebellions, for which also I will keep you
forty years in the wilderness, yet I will not utterly cast you off, but
will continue to be your God.
Chapter 15:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Leviticus Deuteronomy
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