Numbers 28:20
Ver. 20,21. And their meat offering,.... The quantity of flour for which is the same for a bullock, a ram, and a lamb, as in Nu 28:12. Numbers 28:21Ver. 21. See Gill on "Nu 28:20". Numbers 28:22Ver. 22. And one goat [for] a sin offering, to make atonement for you. For notwithstanding all their services and sacrifices, and though this day was an holy convocation, yet there was need of a sin offering to expiate their guilt, typical of Christ, who takes away the sins of our holy things as well as all other sins: this sin offering also was of that sort which were eaten; for Maimonides says {k}, the goat of the sin offering was eaten on the second day of the passover, which was the sixteenth of Nisan.{k} Maimon. Hilchot Tamidin, c. 7. sect. 3. Numbers 28:23Ver. 23. Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning,.... The daily morning sacrifice, and also besides the daily evening sacrifices, though it is not expressed:which is for a continual burnt offering; and not to be intermitted on any account, let the sacrifices of the day be ever so numerous; great care is taken to observe this. Numbers 28:24Ver. 24. After this manner ye shall offer daily throughout the seven days,.... That is, two bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs, for a burnt offering, on everyone of the seven days; but then they were not all holy convocations, only the first and last:the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord; it seems by this that only the burnt offering was offered up every day, but not a goat of the sin offering, that was peculiar to the first day:it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering; which is again repeated, that it might be diligently observed. Numbers 28:25Ver. 25. And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation,.... As on the first:ye shall do no servile work; unless in dressing food. Numbers 28:26Ver. 26. Also in the day of the firstfruits,.... When the firstfruits of the wheat harvest were brought unto the Lord, which was the day of Pentecost, fifty days from the sheaf of the wave offering being brought:when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord; that is, a meat offering made of the new corn, which were two wave loaves of two tenth deals of fine flour, baked with leaven, Le 23:15after your weeks be out; the seven weeks from the passover to Pentecost, even seven complete sabbaths or weeks, Le 23:15ye shall have an holy convocation, ye shall do no servile work; see Le 23:21. Numbers 28:27Ver. 27-30. But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord,.... Which was of the same kind, and was of the same number of creatures as on the first day of the month, and on the seven days of unleavened bread, Nu 28:11, and the meat offering which went along with this was of the same quantity of flour to each creature as in the above mentioned sacrifices; and on this day also was offered a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and there were also peace offerings which are not mentioned here, nor is there any mention of any in the whole chapter; see Le 23:19. Numbers 28:28Ver. 28. See Gill on "Nu 28:27". Numbers 28:29Ver. 29. See Gill on "Nu 28:27". Numbers 28:30Ver. 30. See Gill on "Nu 28:27". Numbers 28:31Ver. 31. And ye shall offer them besides the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering,.... The daily sacrifice of the morning and evening, so often mentioned in this chapter, and so frequently inculcated as not to be omitted, either in the weekly, monthly, or anniversary festivals; it being so necessary a sacrifice, and so eminent a type of the great sacrifice of the Messiah:they shall be unto you without blemish, and their drink offerings; the flour, of which the meat offerings were made, was to be pure and clean, and free from vermin; and the wine for the drink offering was not to be palled, and dead, and dreggy: of the former, it is said in the Misnah {l},"the treasurer puts his hand into it (the flour); if there comes any dust with it,''it is rejected; if it produces worms, it is rejected: this, the commentators say {m}, is to be understood, if the greatest part of it is such; and with respect to the latter, Jarchi says, our Rabbins learn from hence (this passage of Scripture) that wine in which flour rises (or a dregginess like flour) it is unfit for drink offerings, for they should be perfect: this denotes the purity of Christ, the bread of life, and his spotless and perfect sacrifice, when his soul was poured out unto death.{l} Menachot, c. 8. sect. 2. {m} Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Menachot, c. 8. sect. 2.
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