This is the law of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecration, and the sacrifice of peace offerings
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This is the law of the burnt offering, the meal offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecration, and the sacrifice of peace offerings
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This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
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This is the law of the burnt-offering, of the meal-offering, and of the sin-offering, and of the guilt-offering, and of the consecration-offering, and of the sacrifice of peace-offerings;
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Passages linked to Leviticus 7:37 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 29:1 “This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,
- Exodus 29:38-42 “Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually. The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening; and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
- Leviticus 1:1–5:6 Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When anyone of you offers an offering to Yahweh, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock. “ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh. He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting. He shall skin the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces. The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire; and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar; but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. “ ‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar, but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. “ ‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons. The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar; and he shall take away its crop and its feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes. He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. “ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity. “ ‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty. “ ‘Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty. “ ‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these. It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned; and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
- Leviticus 6:9-18 “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen trousers upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning. He shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out. “ ‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh, before the altar. He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a pleasant aroma, as its memorial portion, to Yahweh. That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting. It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering. Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.’ ”
- Leviticus 6:20–7:7 “This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in the day when he is anointed: one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening. It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. The anointed priest that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burned to Yahweh. Every meal offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.” Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is most holy. The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting. Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place. But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water. Every male among the priests shall eat of it. It is most holy. No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. “ ‘This is the law of the trespass offering: It is most holy. In the place where they kill the burnt offering, he shall kill the trespass offering; and its blood he shall sprinkle around on the altar. He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards, and he shall take away the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys; and the priest shall burn them on the altar for an offering made by fire to Yahweh: it is a trespass offering. Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. “ ‘As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
- Leviticus 7:11-21 “ ‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh: If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil. He shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving with cakes of leavened bread. Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the priest’s who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings. The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. “ ‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a free will offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice. On the next day what remains of it shall be eaten, but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity. “ ‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it; but the soul who eats of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings that belongs to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from his people. When anyone touches any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean animal, or any unclean abomination, and eats some of the meat of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Which sacrifice was offered when the Priests were consecrated,…
Which sacrifice was offered when the Priests were consecrated, Exod. 29:22.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Of the consecration, i.e. of the sacrifice offered at…
Of the consecration, i.e. of the sacrifice offered at the consecration of the priests.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Which the Lord commanded Moses in Mount Sinai,.... Or…
Which the Lord commanded Moses in Mount Sinai,.... Or "by" or "near" (t) Mount Sinai; for the above laws were not given to Moses when on the mount, but after the tabernacle was erected, and out of it, as appears from Lev 1:1 and to which what follows agrees:
in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai; where they were when the above laws were delivered to them, and which wilderness had its name from the mount near to which they now were, and where the tabernacle was pitched, from whence the Lord spoke; and so the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it,"in the tabernacle which they made for him in the wilderness of Sinai;''there they were ordered to offer their oblations of every sort, as before directed. It should be observed, that this is to be understood of the command given in the wilderness to offer sacrifices, but not of the sacrifices themselves then offered, which were not done while there; see Jer 7:22.
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(t) "by the mount"; so Patrick in loc.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Of the consecrations - That is, of the sacrifice…
Of the consecrations - That is, of the sacrifice offered at the consecration of the priests.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Of the consecrations - That is, of the sacrifices…
Of the consecrations - That is, of the sacrifices which were to be offered in the consecration of the priests. See the marginal references.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Law. Six sorts of sacrifices are here specified, holocausts,…
Law. Six sorts of sacrifices are here specified, holocausts, flour-offerings, sin and trespass-offerings, those for the consecration of priests, and the peace-offerings.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 37. Burnt offering — Chap. 1, notes, and Lev_6:8-13,…
37. Burnt offering — Chap. 1, notes, and Lev_6:8-13, notes.
Meat offering — Chap. 2, and Lev_6:14-18, notes.
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Sin offering — Chap. 4, notes, and Lev_6:25-30.
Trespass offering — Chapter Lev_5:1 to Lev_6:7; Lev_7:1-7, notes.
The consecrations — This consisted in filling the hands of the priests with the things which they were to offer. See Num_3:3, note. It is an expressive mode of inducting them into office. This ordinance is not distinctly spoken of in the previous chapters except in part in Lev_6:19-23, but the offerings of which the consecration is made up have been already detailed, as will be seen in chap. 8.
Peace offerings — Chaps. 3, Lev_7:11-34. notes. “The sacrificial law, therefore, with the five species of sacrifices which it enjoins, embraces every aspect in which Israel was to manifest its true relation to the Lord its God. While the expiatory sacrifices furnished the means of removing the barrier which sins and trespasses had set up between the sinner and the holy God, and procured the forgiveness of sin and guilt, so that the sinner could attain once more to the unrestricted enjoyment of the covenanted grace, the sanctification of the whole man in self-surrender to the Lord was shadowed forth in the burnt offerings, the fruits of this sanctification in the meat offerings, and the blessedness of the possession and enjoyment of saving grace in the peace offerings. Nevertheless the sacrifices could not make those who drew near to God with them and in them “perfect as pertaining to the conscience,” (Heb_9:9; Heb_10:1,) because the blood of bulls and of goats could not possibly take away sin. Heb_10:4. The forgiveness of sin which the atoning sacrifices procured was only a παρεσις (a passing by) of past sins through the forbearance of God, (Rom_3:25-26,) in anticipation of the true sacrifice of Christ, of which the animal sacrifices were only a type, and by which the justice of God is satisfied, and the way opened for full forgiveness of sin and complete reconciliation to God.” — Keil. See Introduction, 5, 6, 7.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 37, 38. These verses seem at first sight to…
37, 38. These verses seem at first sight to form a general conclusion to chs. 1–7, but as the order in which the sacrifices are mentioned is closely connected with that in Lev_6:8 to Lev_8:34, it must be regarded as a conclusion to that section1[50]. The words ‘and of the consecration’ probably are intended as a reterence to Lev_6:19-23; whether it is to be regarded as an addition depends upon the view taken of that section, and of the words ‘in the day when he is anointed’ in Lev_6:20 (see pp. 30 ff.).
[50] It is possible that the last clause of Lev_7:38 may refer to chs. 1–6:7.
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Note. The priests’ portions as prescribed under the separate offerings are as follows:
(a) That which remains of the Meal-Offerings, Lev_2:3; Lev_2:10; Lev_6:16-18; Lev_7:9-10; Lev_7:14 (brought as part of the Peace-Offering); Lev_24:9, the shewbread.
(b) The remainder of the Sin-Offerings, except of those whereof any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting; Lev_5:13, Lev_6:26; Lev_6:29-30.
(c) The remainder of the Guilt-Offerings, Lev_7:6-7; and the ‘restitution for guilt’ where there is no kinsman to whom restitution may be made, Num_5:8.
(d) The skin of the Burnt-Offering, Lev_7:7.
(e) Of the Peace-Offerings, the wave breast for Aaron and his sons, and the heave thigh for the priest who offers the blood and the fat, Lev_7:29-34.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (37) This is the law . . . —This…
(37) This is the law . . . —This and the following verse sum up the whole sacrificial law contained in Leviticus 1-8
The burnt offering.—Described in Lev_1:3-17, with its supplement, Lev_6:8-13.
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The meat offering.—Described in Lev_2:1-16, with its supplement, Lev_6:14-18.
The sin offering.—Described in Lev_4:1-35, with its supplement, Lev_6:24-30.
The trespass offering.—Described in Lev_5:1-13, with its supplements, Lev_5:14-19, Lev_6:1-7, Lev_7:1-10.
And of the consecrations.—Better, and of the offering of consecration, that is, the meat offering which the high priest is to bring on his consecration to the pontifical office, described in Lev_6:19-23.
The peace offering.—Described in Lev_3:1-17, with its supplements, Lev_7:11-21; Lev_7:28-36.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 37, 38. Conclusion of Part I The law…
Vers. 37, 38. Conclusion of Part I The law of the burnt offering is contained in Lev_1:1-17 Lev_6:8-13: of the meat offering, in Lev_2:1-16 Lev_6:14-23: of the sin offering, in Lev_4:1-35 Lev_5:1-13 Lev_6:24-30: of the trespass offering, in Lev_5:14-19 Lev_6:1-7 Lev_7:1-6: of the consecrations, in Lev_6:19-23, supplementing Exo_29:1-37: of the sacrifice of the peace offerings, in Lev_3:1-17 Lev_7:11-21 Lev_7:28-34. Together, the sacrifices teach the lessons of self-surrender, loyalty, atonement, satisfaction, dedication, peace.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain This is the law . . . to offer…
Lev_7:37-38
This is the law . . . to offer their oblations.
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The gospel of the sacrifices
I. There was a divine institution and command of god, for the offerings and sacrifices which were under the law.
1. An offering in general is anything presented to the Lord to become peculiarly His, and to be typical of Christ and gospel mysteries.
2. The legal offerings were set apart for God, with respect to Christ and His great sacrifice and offering up of Himself unto God for us.
3. Some have distinguished them into three sorts.
(1) Such as were offered at the brazen altar, or the altar of burnt-offering, which represented the death and sufferings of Jesus Christ.
(2) Such as were offered in the sanctuary, more near to the Holy of Holies, viz., the shewbread and the incense at the altar of incense; which had respect to His intercession for us at the throne of grace, in the virtue and by the merit of that sacrifice which He before had shed and offered up.
(3) Such as were offered in the Holy of Holies; which represented the full attainment of the ends of both the former, viz., our full access unto and communion with God through the influence both of the death and oblation as likewise of the prayers and intercession of Christ for us.
4. The sacrifices that were offered at the brazen altar are commonly distributed into two sorts--sacrifices of expiation, and sacrifices of thanksgiving. It is the former sort whereof the text speaks.
(1) These propitiatory sacrifices were offerings most holy to the Lord; for atonement, or for appeasing of His wrath; by the destruction of the sacrifice; to shadow forth the true atonement and expiation of sin, by the death of Jesus, and our reconciliation to and communion with God through Him.
(2) For further rules of illustration, take these propositions--
(a) The institution of sacrifices was presently after the sin and fall of man; but the renewed institution and further direction and regulation of them was by Moses unto Israel.
(b) In this renewed institution and regulation of their offerings and sacrifices, there were sundry adjuncts and ceremonies, some whereof were required and some severely forbidden to be added to them, all which were mystical and significant,
1. Adjuncts required. Sacrifices to be offered only at this ore altar. Salt. Music. Incense. Many ceremonious actions,
2. Adjuncts forbidden. In general, any conformity or compliance with the pagans in their rites and ceremonies. In particular, leaven and honey.
(c) The occasions upon which they were to be offered,
1. When under guilt of sin.
2. For the obtaining of any needful mercy,
3. To testify their joy and thankfulness for mercies received,
4. In the instituted seasons of them.
II. The sacrifices of propitiation under the law, may be referred to there six kinds or sorts--burnt-offering, meat-offering, peace-offering, sin-offering, trespass-offering, and offering of consecrations.
1. There were some things in which these all agreed.
(1) They were all offered at the brazen altar.
(2) They were all holy of holinesses.
(3) They were all offerings made by fire.
(4) They were all propitiatory.
2. The difference consisted--
(1) Partly in the different matter of them. An ox or a sheep in some; flowers and wine in others.
(2) Partly in the particular ends and designs and occasions of them.
(3) Principally in the different ceremonies accompanying them.
Lessons:
1. Keep close to the rule of Divine institution in matters of worship.
2. See the worth and value of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and the necessity of it, fur the justification and salvation of lost sinners. (S. Mather.)
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This is the end of a speech started in verse Leviticus 7:29.
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law, laws
burnt offering
grain offering
sin offering
guilt offering
consecrate
peace offering
Yahweh
command
Moses
Sinai
Israel
desert
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