PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Leviticus
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 211,561 words · 404 reading sections
Leviticus 8:9
Leviticus 8:9 Ver. 9. And he put the mitre upon his head,.... Which was made of fine linen, and was a wrap of that of a considerable length about his head, Ex 28:39 also upon the mitre, [even] upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate; which was put upon the forehead of the high priest, reaching from ear to ear…
225 wordsSECTION 122Leviticus 8:10
Leviticus 8:10 Ver. 10. And Moses took the anointing oil,.... Which Bezaleel had made, according to the directions which Moses had given him, and he had received from the Lord: this Moses brought with him to the door of the tabernacle, as he was ordered, Le 8:2 and now he took it and made use of it as follows: and an…
92 wordsSECTION 123Leviticus 8:11
Leviticus 8:11 Ver. 11. And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times,.... The altar of burnt offering; the order for anointing it is given in Ex 30:28 but in that no directions are given for the manner of doing it by sprinkling, nor the number of times it was to be sprinkled: hence Jarchi confesses his ignoranc…
191 wordsSECTION 124Leviticus 8:12
Leviticus 8:12 Ver. 12. And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head,.... Which ran down to his beard, and to the collar of his coat, the robe of the ephod, but not to the skirts of his garments, as we wrongly render it, Ps 133:2. Jarchi says it was first poured on his head, and after that he put it between hi…
240 wordsSECTION 125Leviticus 8:13
Leviticus 8:13 Ver. 13. And Moses brought Aaron's sons,.... His four sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; he ordered and directed them to come there, or sent proper persons to fetch them, or from one part of the court, where they were, he might accompany them t…
175 wordsSECTION 126Leviticus 8:14
Leviticus 8:14 Ver. 14. And he brought the bullock for the sin [offering],.... To the tabernacle, into the court of it, to the altar of burnt offering there; that is, he caused it to be brought thither as he was ordered,…
42 wordsSECTION 127Ex 29:10
Ex 29:10 and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin [offering]; their right hands, according to the Targum of Jonathan, which is not improbable, thereby as it were transferring their sins to it, and confessing them over it; acknowledging their guilt, and that they deserved to die,…
88 wordsSECTION 128Leviticus 8:15
Leviticus 8:15 Ver. 15. And he slew it,.... Not Aaron, nor any of his sons, who as yet were not fully consecrated and installed into their office, but Moses, as follows: and Moses took the blood; which was received into a basin when the bullock was slain: and put [it] upon the horns of the altar round about with his…
2,195 wordsSECTION 129Leviticus 9:1
Leviticus 9:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 9 Aaron and his sons, being consecrated to and invested with the priest's office, are called upon to the exercise of it, to offer a sin offering and a burnt offering for themselves, and all sorts of offerings, a sin offering, a burnt offering, peace offerings, and a meat offeri…
343 wordsSECTION 130Leviticus 9:2
Leviticus 9:2 Ver. 2. And he said unto Aaron,.... In the presence of the people of Israel: take thee a young calf for a sin [offering]; one not exceeding a year old, as in Le 9:3 but this was not for the sin of making the calf only, to which the Jewish writers restrain it, but for all other sins of his, which it was …
200 wordsSECTION 131Leviticus 9:3
Leviticus 9:3 Ver. 3. And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak,.... That is, Aaron should speak to them, for being now high priest, Moses had no more to do with the sacrifices of the people, but it was incumbent on Aaron to call upon them to bring them to him such as the Lord by this law required of them: say…
155 wordsSECTION 132Leviticus 9:4
Leviticus 9:4 Ver. 4. Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord,.... An offering being made for the atonement of sin, and the gift of a whole burnt offering accepted by the Lord upon that, peace offerings were to be sacrificed thereupon; one part of which belonged to the Lord, as the f…
309 wordsSECTION 133Leviticus 9:5
Leviticus 9:5 Ver. 5. And they brought [that] which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation,.... That is, Aaron and his sons, and all the children of Israel, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it. All the above sacrifices they brought into the court of the tabernacle to be offered up: and all the…
185 wordsSECTION 134Leviticus 9:6
Leviticus 9:6 Ver. 6. This [is] the thing which the Lord commanded that ye should do,.... Namely, what they had done, bring the creatures and things for sacrifice they had: and the glory of the Lord shall appear unto you; either Christ, the brightness of his Father's glory, in an human form, as a presage of his futur…
125 wordsSECTION 135Leviticus 9:7
Leviticus 9:7 Ver. 7. And Moses said unto Aaron,.... This is only observed to show, that as Aaron did not take upon him this office of himself, but was called unto it, and invested with it, by the appointment of God, so neither did he enter upon it but through the call of God by Moses, in the sight of the congregation…
256 wordsSECTION 136Leviticus 9:8
Leviticus 9:8 Ver. 8. Aaron therefore went unto the altar,.... Of burnt offering, freely and cheerfully, at the direction and introduction of Moses, who acted in this affair in the name of the Lord: and slew the calf of the sin [offering], which [was] for himself; which was to be offered first, as it was proper it sh…
111 wordsSECTION 137Leviticus 9:9
Leviticus 9:9 Ver. 9. And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him,.... The blood of the calf of the sin offering, which they had received in a basin when it was slain: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar; the four horns of it, as Moses had done at his consecration, whi…
123 wordsSECTION 138Leviticus 9:10
Leviticus 9:10 Ver. 10. But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul [above] the liver of the sin [offering], he burnt upon the altar,.... The Septuagint version is, "he offered them": as the Lord commanded Moses; see Le 4:8.…
42 wordsSECTION 139Leviticus 9:11
Leviticus 9:11 Ver. 11. And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp. With common fire, for the fire from the Lord came only upon the altar, which perhaps may be the reason of this expression being used when anything was burnt without the camp, and not on the altar, see Ex 29:14. Jarchi observes, tha…
84 wordsSECTION 140Leviticus 9:12
Leviticus 9:12 Ver. 12. And he slew the burnt offering,.... The ram, which was for himself also; this he slew at the north side of the altar, Le 1:11 and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood: which they had received into a basin, when it was slain: which he sprinkled round about upon the altar; as he had seen M…
69 wordsSECTION 141Leviticus 9:13
Leviticus 9:13 Ver. 13. And they presented the burnt offering to him,.... After it was cut in pieces, as the ram of the burnt offering was by Moses, Le 8:20 and so it was done to this, as appears by what follows: with the pieces thereof, and the head, and he burnt them upon the altar; the Septuagint version is, "he p…
68 wordsSECTION 142Leviticus 9:14
Leviticus 9:14 Ver. 14. And he did wash the inwards and the legs,.... As Moses also had done, Le 8:21 and burnt [them] upon the burnt offering on the altar; upon the pieces, and the head, before mentioned, said to be burnt, or "after" the burnt offering, after they were burnt: the Septuagint version is as before.…
59 wordsSECTION 143Leviticus 9:15
Leviticus 9:15 Ver. 15. And he brought the people's offering,.... To the altar, having offered his own first: and took the goat, which [was] the sin [offering] for the people, and slew it; where he had slain his own: and offered it for sin, as the first: the first offering he offered for himself, which was of the sa…
61 wordsSECTION 144Leviticus 9:16
Leviticus 9:16 Ver. 16. And he brought the burnt offering,.... The calf and the lamb, Le 9:3 and offered it according to the manner; judgment, ordinance, and appointment of God respecting that sort of offerings; see Le 1:1.…
41 wordsSECTION 145Leviticus 9:17
Leviticus 9:17 Ver. 17. And he brought the meat offering,.... Made of fine flour, with oil and frankincense put upon it, see Le 2:1 and took a handful thereof, and burnt [it] upon the altar; see Le 2:2 beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning; the daily morning sacrifice, which was not to be omitted on account of t…
90 wordsSECTION 146Leviticus 9:18
Leviticus 9:18 Ver. 18. He slew also the bullock and the ram, a sacrifice of peace offerings, which [was] for the people,.... That they might feast, rejoice, and be glad that atonement was made for their sins, and their gifts and sacrifices accepted of God, see Rom 5:11 and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood; …
100 wordsSECTION 147Leviticus 9:19
Leviticus 9:19 Ver. 19. And the fat of the bullock, and of the ram,.... Which in all offerings was the Lord's, and was burnt, see Le 3:16 the rump; or tail of the ram; which in those countries was very large, and had a great deal of fat upon it; See Gill on "Ex 29:22" see Gill on "Le 3:9" and that which covereth [th…
126 wordsSECTION 148Leviticus 9:20
Leviticus 9:20 Ver. 20. And they put the fat upon the breasts,.... Both of the bullock and of the ram, while they were waving: and he burnt the fat upon the altar; after having been waved.…
37 wordsSECTION 149Leviticus 9:21
Leviticus 9:21 Ver. 21. And the breasts and the right shoulder,.... The breasts of the bullock and the ram, and the right shoulders of them both: Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord; which was given to him as his part of the peace offerings, after they had been thus waved before the Lord; whereby an ackno…
1,532 wordsSECTION 150Leviticus 10:1
Leviticus 10:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 10 This chapter begins with the sin and punishment of two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Le 10:1 for whose death Aaron and his sons are commanded not to mourn, nor to depart from the tabernacle, Le 10:6 and an order is given, prohibiting the priests from drinking wine when th…
553 wordsSECTION 151Leviticus 10:2
Leviticus 10:2 Ver. 2. And there went out fire from the Lord,.... They sinned by fire, and they were punished by fire, either from heaven, or from the most holy place, where the Lord dwelt between the cherubim; this was of the nature of lightning, as appears by what follows: and devoured them; not reduced them to ash…
489 wordsSECTION 152Leviticus 10:3
Leviticus 10:3 Ver. 3. And Moses said unto Aaron,.... Upon this awful occasion, and in order to quiet and humble him under the mighty hand of God: this [is it] that the Lord spoke, saying; but when he spoke it, and where it is said and recorded, is not so very clear; it might have been said, and yet not recorded, or …
371 wordsSECTION 153Leviticus 10:4
Leviticus 10:4 Ver. 4. And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron,.... Uzziel was a son of Kohath, a brother of Amram, the father of Aaron, and so Aaron's uncle, as here; he had four sons, two of which are here mentioned as called by Moses; these were first cousins to Aaron, and seco…
428 wordsSECTION 154Leviticus 10:5
Leviticus 10:5 Ver. 5. So they went near,.... To the place where the bodies lay, having an order from Moses so to do, let them have been where they will; and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said; or bid them do; they took them up in their clothes as they found them, and carried them in them;…
130 wordsSECTION 155Leviticus 10:6
Leviticus 10:6 Ver. 6. And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar, and unto Ithamar, his sons,.... His two younger sons, which yet remained; and so the Septuagint version adds, as in Le 10:12 uncover not your heads; that is, do not take off your mitre, as the Septuagint version; or the bonnets which they wore in the…
575 wordsSECTION 156Leviticus 10:7
Leviticus 10:7 Ver. 7. And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die,.... That is, they were not to relinquish the service of the sanctuary, on the account of the death of these relations of theirs, and through grief for it, but go on in it; not Aaron on account of his childr…
330 wordsSECTION 157Leviticus 10:8
Leviticus 10:8 Ver. 8. And the Lord spake unto Aaron,.... Because he was a prophet, Aben Ezra says; but the reason rather seems to be, because be was the high priest, and now invested with his office, and in the execution of it, and therefore the following law respecting the priest's drinking of wine was given: some s…
108 wordsSECTION 158Leviticus 10:9
Leviticus 10:9 Ver. 9. Do not drink wine or strong drink,.... This law following upon the affair of Nadab and Abihu has caused some to think, and not without some reason, that they were drunk with wine or strong drink, when they offered strange fire; and indeed it is hardly to be accounted for upon any other foot that…
730 wordsSECTION 159Leviticus 10:10
Leviticus 10:10 Ver. 10. And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy,.... That being sober they might be able to distinguish between the one and the other; which a drunken man, having his mind and senses disturbed, is not capable of; as between holy and unholy persons, and between holy and unholy things; pa…
216 wordsSECTION 160Leviticus 10:11
Leviticus 10:11 Ver. 11. And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes,.... Laws, precepts, ordinances, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which was the business of the priests to do, Mal 2:7 but one inebriated with liquor would be incapable of giving instructions about any of those things: which the Lo…
136 wordsSECTION 161Leviticus 10:12
Leviticus 10:12 Ver. 12. And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar, and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left,.... Of the burning, as the Targum of Jonathan; who survived his other two sons that were burnt, who remained alive, not being concerned with them in their sin, and so shared not in their punishment: take …
287 wordsSECTION 162Leviticus 10:13
Leviticus 10:13 Ver. 13. And ye shall eat it in the holy place,.... Not in that which was properly so called, but in the court of the tabernacle; at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, as Aben Ezra, in some apartment there; for it was not to be carried out of the sanctuary, and eaten in their own houses or…
149 wordsSECTION 163Leviticus 10:14
Leviticus 10:14 Ver. 14. And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place,.... The breast of the peace offerings that was waved, and the shoulder of them that was heaved before the Lord; these were given by him to the priests, towards the maintenance of their families, Le 7:34 and they might be eat…
265 wordsSECTION 164Leviticus 10:15
Leviticus 10:15 Ver. 15. The heave shoulder and wave breast shall they bring,.... Not the priests, but the owners to the priests, Le 7:29:with the offerings made by fire of the fat: upon the inwards, kidneys, and caul of the liver, which was all burnt:to wave [it] for a wave offering before the Lord, the shoulder was …
1,430 wordsSECTION 165Leviticus 11:1
Leviticus 11:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 11 This chapter treats of creatures clean and unclean, as fit or not fit to be eaten; and first of beasts, whose signs are given, Le 11:1 then of fishes, which are likewise described, Le 11:9 after that of fowls, and those that are not to be eaten are particularly named, Le 11…
237 wordsSECTION 166Leviticus 11:2
Leviticus 11:2 Ver. 2. Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,.... For to them only belong the following laws, and not unto the Gentiles, as Jarchi rightly observes; these were parts of the ceremonial law, which was peculiarly given to them, and lay, among other things, in meats and drinks, and now abolished; for i…
462 wordsSECTION 167Ac 10:11
Ac 10:11 these are the beasts that ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth; they are not particularly mentioned here, but they are in De 14:4 and they are these ten; the ox, the sheep, and the goat, the hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and …
96 wordsSECTION 168Leviticus 11:3
Leviticus 11:3 Ver. 3. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven footed,.... That is, whose hoof is parted and cloven quite through; for there are some creatures that have partitions in their feet, but not quite through, they are parted above, but underneath are joined together by a skin; wherefore both these phrases…
474 wordsSECTION 169Leviticus 11:4
Leviticus 11:4 Ver. 4. Nevertheless, these shall ye not eat,.... To whom one of these descriptive characters may agree but not the other: of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: there being some that chewed the cud but did not divide the hoof; others that divided the hoof but did not chew the cud,…
740 wordsSECTION 170Leviticus 11:5
Leviticus 11:5 Ver. 5. And the coney,.... Or rabbit: because he cheweth the cud; or "though he cheweth"; which yet, some observe, the coney or rabbit does not, it having upper teeth, and therefore they think some other creature is meant by Shaphan, the word here used; and Bochart {m} is of opinion, that the Aljarbuo …
355 wordsSECTION 171Leviticus 11:6
Leviticus 11:6 Ver. 6. And the hare, because he cheweth the cud,.... Or, "though he chews" it: but divideth not the hoof, he [is] unclean to you; and so not to be eaten; so Plutarch {q} says, that the Jews are said to abstain from the hare, disdaining it as a filthy and unclean animal, and yet was in the greatest est…
251 wordsSECTION 172Leviticus 11:7
Leviticus 11:7 Ver. 7. And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven footed,.... Not only its hoofs are parted, but cloven quite through, and so in this respect answers Moses's first descriptive character of clean creatures; though Aristotle {u} and Pliny {w} speak of some kind of swine in Illyricum, Paeonia…
720 wordsSECTION 173Leviticus 11:8
Leviticus 11:8 Ver. 8. Of their flesh shall ye not eat,.... Meaning, not of swine only, but of the camel, coney, and hare: and their carcass shall ye not touch; which must not be understood of touching them in any sense; for then it would have been unlawful for a Jew to have rode upon a camel, or to take out and make…
202 wordsSECTION 174Leviticus 11:9
Leviticus 11:9 Ver. 9. These shall ye eat of all that [are] in the waters,.... In the waters of the sea, or in rivers, pools, and ponds; meaning fishes; for though some persons abstain from eating them entirely, as the Egyptian priests, as Herodotus {m} relates; and it was a part of religion and holiness, not with the…
314 wordsSECTION 175Leviticus 11:10
Leviticus 11:10 Ver. 10. And all that have not fins nor scales in the seas, and in the rivers,.... Such as eels, lampreys, &c. of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which [is] in the waters; the former of these are interpreted by Aben Ezra and Ben Gersom of little fishes that have but a small body, …
226 wordsSECTION 176Leviticus 11:11
Leviticus 11:11 Ver. 11. They shall be even an abomination to you,.... This is repeated again and again, to deter from the eating of such fishes, lest there should be any desire after them: ye shall not eat of their flesh, here mention is made of the flesh of fishes, as is by the apostle, 1Co 15:39. Aben Ezra observe…
103 wordsSECTION 177Leviticus 11:12
Leviticus 11:12 Ver. 12. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters,.... Which is repeated that they might take particular notice of this law, and be careful to observe it, this being the only sign given: that [shall be] an abomination unto you; the Targum of Jonathan says, that not only the flesh of such fish,…
181 wordsSECTION 178Leviticus 11:13
Leviticus 11:13 Ver. 13. And these [are they which] ye shall have in abomination among the fowls,.... No description or sign is given of fowls, as of beasts and fishes, only the names of those not to be eaten; which, according to Maimonides, are twenty four; so that all the rest but these are clean fowls, and might be…
820 wordsSECTION 179Leviticus 11:14
Leviticus 11:14 Ver. 14. And the vulture, and the kite after his kind. Perhaps it might be better if the version was inverted, and the words be read, "and the kite, and the vulture, after his kind"; and the last word is by us rendered the vulture in Job 28:7 and very rightly, since the kite is not remarkable for its s…
261 wordsSECTION 180Leviticus 11:15
Leviticus 11:15 Ver. 15. Every raven after his kind. The red raven, night raven, the water raven, river raven, wood raven, &c. this also includes crows, rooks, pies, jays, and jackdaws, &c. The raven was with the Heathens sacred to Apollo {o}, is a voracious creature, and so reckoned among unclean ones, and unfit for …
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