PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Leviticus
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 211,561 words · 404 reading sections
Leviticus 16:6
Leviticus 16:6 Ver. 6. And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which [is] for himself,.... That is, bring it into the court, and present it before the Lord in order to its being slain and sacrificed; for as yet it was not killed, and so could not be offered on the altar, see Le 16:11; the place where th…
369 wordsSECTION 242Leviticus 16:7
Leviticus 16:7 Ver. 7. And he shall take the two goats,.... The sin offering for the people, a proper emblem of Christ, this creature being clean and fit for food, denoting the purity of Christ, and his being suitable and wholesome food, as his flesh is to the faith of his people; and because comely in its going, as C…
513 wordsSECTION 243Leviticus 16:8
Leviticus 16:8 Ver. 8. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats,.... Which should be slain, and which should be kept alive, and let go: the manner of casting lots, according to the Misnah {a}, was this; the high priest went to the east of the court, to the north of the altar, the Sagan (or deputy priest) at his ri…
518 wordsSECTION 244Leviticus 16:9
Leviticus 16:9 Ver. 9. And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the Lord's lot fell,.... Alluding to the manner of taking out the lot by the high priest, who, when he took it out, lifted it up with his hand, and then let it down, and put it on the head of the goat; after which he brought it to the altar to be sacrifice…
152 wordsSECTION 245Leviticus 16:10
Leviticus 16:10 Ver. 10. But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat,.... Or for Azazel, of which more hereafter in the latter part of the verse: shall be presented alive before the Lord; this seems to be a second presentation; both the goats were presented before the Lord before the lots were cast, Le 16:…
906 wordsSECTION 246Leviticus 16:11
Leviticus 16:11 Ver. 11. And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering which [is] for himself,.... In the same manner, and is to be understood in the same sense as in Le 16:6; and shall make atonement for himself and for his house: by a confession of words, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, and which Jarchi cal…
234 wordsSECTION 247Leviticus 16:12
Leviticus 16:12 Ver. 12. And he shall take a censer,.... A fire pan, a sort of chafing dish or perfuming pot; this was a golden one, as appears from Heb 9:4; hence Christ, the Angel of God's presence, our interceding High Priest, is said to have such an one, Re 8:3; and so Josephus says {g}, it was a golden one the hi…
9,533 wordsSECTION 248Leviticus 17:1
Leviticus 17:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 17 In this chapter a law is given, ordering all sorts of persons, Israelites and sojourners, to bring their sacrifices to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, on pain of being cut off, Le 17:1; and a special and particular prohibition of sacrificing to devils is del…
115 wordsSECTION 249Leviticus 17:2
Leviticus 17:2 Ver. 2. Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons,.... Who were now constituted priests, the business of whose office it was to offer the sacrifices of the people, ordinary and extraordinary: and to all the children of Israel; who were all under obligation to sacrifices at certain times; under whom may be co…
141 wordsSECTION 250Leviticus 17:3
Leviticus 17:3 Ver. 3. What man soever [there be] of the house of Israel,.... Whether high or low, rich or poor: that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat in the camp; which are particularly mentioned, as Gersom observes, because of these the offerings were; for the law respects the killing of them not for common food, bu…
195 wordsSECTION 251Leviticus 17:4
Leviticus 17:4 Ver. 4. And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,.... Near to which stood the altar of burnt offering to offer it upon, and the priests ready for such service: now the Lord would have every sacrifice brought thither to offer an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle o…
335 wordsSECTION 252Leviticus 17:5
Leviticus 17:5 Ver. 5. To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they offer in the open field,.... Which, before the tabernacle was erected, they were used to offer there, as it was lawful for them to do, and on high places, but now unlawful; though sometimes this was dispensed with by th…
202 wordsSECTION 253Leviticus 17:6
Leviticus 17:6 Ver. 6. And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord,.... The altar of burnt: offering, Le 1:5; [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; near to which it stood, see Le 1:5; and burn the fat for a sweet savour to the Lord; the fat that covered the inwards, the kidneys,…
74 wordsSECTION 254Leviticus 17:7
Leviticus 17:7 Ver. 7. And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils,.... As it seems they had done, which was monstrously shocking, and especially by a people that had the knowledge of the true God. Such shocking idolatry has been committed, and still is among the Indians, both East and West: when Columbu…
597 wordsSECTION 255Leviticus 17:8
Leviticus 17:8 Ver. 8. And thou shalt say unto them,.... To Aaron and his sons, and to the children of Israel, as in Le 17:2; whatsoever man [there be] of the house of Israel: belonging to that nation, and to any of its tribes and families, of whatever age; as a young man or an old man, as the Targum of Jonathan; or …
234 wordsSECTION 256Leviticus 17:9
Leviticus 17:9 Ver. 9. And bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the Lord,.... In a public manner, by one of the priests of the Lord; by which it might appear that he did not take upon him to be a priest himself, nor to offer it to an idol: even that man shall be cut off …
143 wordsSECTION 257Leviticus 17:10
Leviticus 17:10 Ver. 10. And whatsoever man [there be] of the house of Israel,.... That is by birth an Israelite, of every age, sex, or condition, as before: or of the strangers that sojourn among you; proselytes of righteousness, for the following law was only obligatory on such, and upon Israelites, as appears from…
386 wordsSECTION 258Leviticus 17:11
Leviticus 17:11 Ver. 11. For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood,.... The animal life or soul, the life and soul of every creature, and even the animal life and soul of man; agreeably to which our famous Dr. Harvey, who found out the circulation of the blood, says of it, that it is the principal part which first a…
643 wordsSECTION 259Leviticus 17:12
Leviticus 17:12 Ver. 12. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, no soul of you shall eat blood,.... Great or small as Jarchi observes, for the reason above given; which, though not expressed before, was the true reason of this law, which had been given before, and now repeated; see Le 3:17; neither shall any s…
74 wordsSECTION 260Leviticus 17:13
Leviticus 17:13 Ver. 13. And whatsoever man [there be] of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you,.... This form of speaking, which is often used in this chapter, is still observed to point out the persons on whom the law is obligatory, Israelites and proselytes of righteousness: which hunt…
321 wordsSECTION 261Leviticus 17:14
Leviticus 17:14 Ver. 14. For [it is] the life of all flesh,.... Of every animal: the blood of it [is] for the life thereof; for the production, preservation, and continuance of life; that on which life depends, as Jarchi observes: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, ye shall eat the blood of no manner of f…
606 wordsSECTION 262Leviticus 18:1
Leviticus 18:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 18 In this chapter the Israelites are directed in general not to imitate the customs and practices of the Egyptians and Canaanites, but to keep the ordinances, statutes, and judgments of the Lord, Le 18:1; and they are instructed particularly to avoid incestuous marriages, Le …
206 wordsSECTION 263Leviticus 18:2
Leviticus 18:2 Ver. 2. Speak unto the children of Israel,.... To the heads of their tribes, that they might deliver to them the following laws; or Moses is bid to publish them among them, either by word of mouth, or by writing, or both: and say unto them, I am the Lord your God; with which they were to be introduced;…
188 wordsSECTION 264Leviticus 18:3
Leviticus 18:3 Ver. 3. After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do,.... Where they had dwelt many years, and were just come out from thence, and where they had learned many of their evil practices; not only their idolatrous ones referred to in the preceding chapter, which it is certain the…
519 wordsSECTION 265Leviticus 18:4
Leviticus 18:4 Ver. 4. Ye shall do my judgments,.... Which are just and right, and according to the rules of justice and equity; these are things, as Jarchi observes, which are said in the law with judgment, or are laws framed with the highest reason, even by the judgment of God himself, whose judgment is always accor…
213 wordsSECTION 266Leviticus 18:5
Leviticus 18:5 Ver. 5. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments,.... The same as before; these they were to keep in their minds and memories, and to observe them and do them: which if a man do he shall live in them; live a long life in the land of Canaan, in great happiness and prosperity, see De 30:20; …
174 wordsSECTION 267Leviticus 18:6
Leviticus 18:6 Ver. 6. None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him,.... Or to all "the rest of his flesh" {t}, which together with his make one flesh, who are of the same flesh and blood with him, and are united together in the bonds of consanguinity; and such, with respect to a man, are his mother, s…
592 wordsSECTION 268Leviticus 18:7
Leviticus 18:7 Ver. 7. The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shall thou not uncover,.... By uncovering a father's nakedness is not meant anything similar to what befell Noah, which Ham beheld with pleasure, and the other two sons of Noah studiously and with reverence to their father covered; nor…
479 wordsSECTION 269Leviticus 18:8
Leviticus 18:8 Ver. 8. The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover,.... That is, who is indeed a man's father's wife, but not his own mother, but a stepmother or mother-in-law; or otherwise this law would coincide with the former; a man lying with such an one is accursed by the law, De 27:23; such an inc…
260 wordsSECTION 270Leviticus 18:9
Leviticus 18:9 Ver. 9. The nakedness of thy sister,.... To lie with one in so near a relation is exceeding criminal, and for which the law curses a man, De 27:22; and to marry her is not lawful; for though it was necessary for the propagation of mankind that a man should marry his sister, for who else could Cain and A…
353 wordsSECTION 271Leviticus 18:10
Leviticus 18:10 Ver. 10. The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter,.... A man might not marry his granddaughter, whether a descendant of his son or of his daughter, nor any further off descending from him in a right line, not his great-granddaughter, and so on; and if he might not marry his gr…
133 wordsSECTION 272Leviticus 18:11
Leviticus 18:11 Ver. 11. The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter,.... Either the daughter of his father by another wife, which seems to be countenanced by what follows: begotten of thy father, she [is] thy sister; but then this coincides with what is prohibited, Le 18:9, "the daughter of thy father"; that is, b…
629 wordsSECTION 273Leviticus 18:12
Leviticus 18:12 Ver. 12. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister,.... His aunt by his father's side, an instance of which we have in Amram, Ex 6:20; and Maimonides says {i}, an aunt was forbidden whether she was a father's sister in lawful wedlock or in fornication: she [is] thy father's near kins…
4,497 wordsSECTION 274Leviticus 19:1
Leviticus 19:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 19 This chapter contains various laws, ceremonial and moral, tending to the sanctification of men, in imitation of the holy God, Le 19:1; as concerning the reverence of parents, and observing the sabbaths, Le 19:3; against idolatry, Le 19:4; about offering and eating of peace …
349 wordsSECTION 275Leviticus 19:2
Leviticus 19:2 Ver. 2. Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel,.... They could not be all spoke to together, but tribe after tribe, or family after family; or rather the heads of the tribes, and at most the heads of families were convened, and the following instructions were given, to be communicated…
251 wordsSECTION 276Leviticus 19:3
Leviticus 19:3 Ver. 3. Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father,.... This has respect to the fifth command, which is the first with promise, and is here referred to first, because a man has his beginning in the world from his parents, and by them he is trained up in the observance of all the other laws of God…
327 wordsSECTION 277Leviticus 19:4
Leviticus 19:4 Ver. 4. Turn ye not unto idols,.... From the one only true and living God to them that are not gods, as the word used signifies, who are nothing; for, as the apostle says, an idol is nothing in the world, 1Co 8:4, is of no worth and value, of no consequence and importance, of no avail and usefulness to …
241 wordsSECTION 278Leviticus 19:5
Leviticus 19:5 Ver. 5. And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord,.... Which were of three sorts, a thanksgiving, a vow, and a voluntary offering, Le 7:11; the latter seems to be here meant, as appears by what follows: ye shall offer it at your own will; a voluntary freewill offering, of their own a…
148 wordsSECTION 279Leviticus 19:6
Leviticus 19:6 Ver. 6. It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow,.... The meaning is, that if it could be, it was best to eat it all up the same day it was offered, but if not, the remainder was to be eaten on the morrow, but by no means to be kept any longer; this shows that that sort of peace off…
164 wordsSECTION 280Leviticus 19:7
Leviticus 19:7 Ver. 7. And if it be eaten at all on the third day,.... Or "in eating be eaten" {k} any of it be eaten, the least bit of it: it [is] abominable; it is as any common thing, as if it was no sacrifice; yea, as if it was corrupt and putrefied flesh; nay, as what is abominable to God: and therefore it follo…
89 wordsSECTION 281Leviticus 19:8
Leviticus 19:8 Ver. 8. Therefore [everyone] that eateth it shall bear his iniquity,.... Be chargeable with sin, be pronounced guilty, and endure the punishment, which is cutting off, Le 7:20: because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord; the flesh of the peace offerings, by keeping it longer than the fixed…
144 wordsSECTION 282Leviticus 19:9
Leviticus 19:9 Ver. 9. And when ye reap the harvest of your land,.... Of the land of Canaan, when come into it, which having sown, and it was harvest, either barley harvest or wheat harvest, or both, and especially the latter, to which reaping seems best to agree: thou shall not wholly reap the corner of the field; b…
733 wordsSECTION 283Leviticus 19:10
Leviticus 19:10 Ver. 10. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard,.... Or cut off the little clusters which are, as Aben Ezra observes, like an infant, as the word signifies, infant clusters, which were small in comparison of the large ones, as infants are to men; those which had but a grape or two, or very few upon them…
495 wordsSECTION 284Leviticus 19:11
Leviticus 19:11 Ver. 11. Ye shall not steal,.... Which is the eighth command; See Gill on "Ex 20:15"; though Jarchi thinks something different from that law is here intended; that this is a caution against stealing of money, that in the decalogue against stealing of souls, or men. And it may be observed, that one is e…
338 wordsSECTION 285Leviticus 19:12
Leviticus 19:12 Ver. 12. And ye shall not swear by my name falsely,.... Or "to a falsehood" {x}, to any of the above cases; as that a man has not the deposit of another's in his hands, when he has; or that such a man owes him so much money, when he does not, or any other false thing. Stealing, dealing falsely, lying, …
333 wordsSECTION 286Leviticus 19:13
Leviticus 19:13 Ver. 13. Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob [him],.... Not defraud him secretly, nor rob him openly and by force, as Aben Ezra; not defraud him in buying and selling, in retaining wages due to him, and refusing to return to him what has been committed to trust, or to repay him what has b…
354 wordsSECTION 287Leviticus 19:14
Leviticus 19:14 Ver. 14. Thou shalt not curse the deaf,.... Who are naturally so, born deaf, or become so through some accident, and cannot hear what is objected to them, and they are cursed for; and so cannot reply in their own defence, and remove the calumny cast upon them, if it be such which is the cause of their …
8,049 wordsSECTION 288Leviticus 20:1
Leviticus 20:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 20 In this chapter several laws are, repeated, enforced with a penalty annexed to them, and the breach them made capital, to deter from it, as giving seed to Molech, Le 20:1; going after such that have familiar spirits, or are wizards, Le 20:6; by shunning which, and other sin…
222 wordsSECTION 289Leviticus 20:2
Leviticus 20:2 Ver. 2. Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel,.... The body of the people by their elders, and the heads of their tribes; for the following laws were binding on them all: whosoever [he be] of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel; everyone of the people of Israel, …
412 wordsSECTION 290Leviticus 20:3
Leviticus 20:3 Ver. 3. And I will set my face against that man,.... Express resentment, anger, wrath, and indignation at him, see Ps 34:16: and will cut him off from among his people: that is, supposing him to have been guilty of the above horrid crime, and there being not sufficient evidence given of it by witnesses…
316 wordsSECTION 291Leviticus 20:4
Leviticus 20:4 Ver. 4. And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man,.... That is, the people of the house of Israel, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; if the friends, relations, and neighbours of such a man, though they know what he is about to do, or has done, yet they shut their eyes …
190 wordsSECTION 292Leviticus 20:5
Leviticus 20:5 Ver. 5. Then I will set my face against that man,.... That man that sees him do the fact, and winks at it, or the judge that connives at him, and will not condemn him, as well as the man that has committed the iniquity: and against his family; either the family of the witness, who could and should have…
278 wordsSECTION 293Leviticus 20:6
Leviticus 20:6 Ver. 6. The soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits,.... The man or woman that has respect unto them, seeks after them, and inquires of them, in order to get knowledge of things: and after wizards who pretend to tell fortunes, and discover lost and stolen goods, See Gill on "Le 19:31"; t…
192 wordsSECTION 294Leviticus 20:7
Leviticus 20:7 Ver. 7. Sanctify yourselves therefore,.... By abstaining from such impious and idolatrous practices, and separating themselves from all that gave into them, as well as by observing the holy commandments of the Lord; otherwise internal sanctification is not the work of man, but of the Lord himself, as in…
97 wordsSECTION 295Leviticus 20:8
Leviticus 20:8 Ver. 8. And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them,.... Not only those respecting the above things, but all others, which would be a means of preserving them from sin, and of promoting holiness in their lives and conversations: I [am] the Lord which sanctify you: who had separated and distinguished the…
99 wordsSECTION 296Leviticus 20:9
Leviticus 20:9 Ver. 9. For everyone that curseth his father or his mother,.... Here begins the account of the penalties annexed to the several laws in the preceding chapter; and that respecting the fear and honour of parents being the first, Le 19:3, is here begun with: shall surely be put to death; the Targum of Jon…
141 wordsSECTION 297Leviticus 20:10
Leviticus 20:10 Ver. 10. And the man that committeth adultery with [another] man's wife,.... Which is a breach of the seventh command, Ex 20:14; [even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife: which is only an explanation of the former clause; though the Jewish writers, as Jarchi and Ben Gersom, say thi…
274 wordsSECTION 298Leviticus 20:11
Leviticus 20:11 Ver. 11. And the man that lieth with his father's wife,.... Whether she be his mother, or another woman, as the Targum of Jonathan; that is, whether she is his own mother, or a stepmother, or whether he did this in the lifetime of his father, or after his death, or whether she was betrothed or married,…
3,455 wordsSECTION 299Leviticus 21:1
Leviticus 21:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 21 This chapter respects the priests, the sons of Aaron, and forbids their mourning for the dead, unless in some cases, Le 21:1; or their marriage with an whore or a divorced woman, Le 21:7; and the daughters of any of them to commit fornication, which is made punishable with …
513 wordsSECTION 300Leviticus 21:2
Leviticus 21:2 Ver. 2. But for his kin that is near unto him,.... For such he might be defiled and mourn, or be where they were, and take care of, and attend their funerals: this clause some take to be general, of which the particulars follow, as Aben Ezra; but others take it to be the first particular excepted, and i…
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