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ND the LORD ſpake unto Moſes, -ſaying, 2 * Sanctify unro mie #4 all the tiſt-born 5.
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underitood in Scripture. 2 ; 10 Thou ſhait therefore keep this ordinance in his {caſon from year to year |.
k Heb. From aays to days. But drys in the Hebrew Tongue are oft put for a compleat year, Of which ſee Gen: 4: 3: Lev: 25: 29: AMOS 4: 4. | F
it 4 Andit ſhall be when the LORD ſhall bring thee intothe landof the Canaanites 1, as he ſware unto
thee, and to thy fathers, and ſhall give it thee : 1 Unler which general name all the othex Nations are contained, as being all the Children of Canaan. | *Chap.22. 12 * Thatchou ibalr + ſet apart #2 unto the LORD
29nd 34. all that openeth the matrix, and every fritling that co- 19. Deut. meth of a beaſt which thou haſt ; the males thall be the i: LORDS ».
m ( 3: e:) Separat it from the reſt; reſign thy right in it to God. Heb. Cauſe it to paſs, not through the Fire, as that Verb is uſed, cauſe ro paſs Deut: 18: 10: * 2 Kings 16: 3: but under the Rod; as itis uſed,and over. more fully expreiled, Lv: 27: 32: which was the Rite when any h thing was ſeparated and conſecrated to God. » Devored to him, Either to be {acrificed, if it was clean, or to be otherwiſe deſtroyed, if it was unclean, as it here follows. I3 And every firſtling of an aſs o thou ſhalt redeem 10:,k4, *with a + lamb : and if thou wilt not redeem. it, then thou fbalt break his neck p: and all the firft-born of man
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-o An unclean Creature, and therefore this Rule was to be obſer- ved in all other unclean Creatures, as appears, 1. Becauſe the rea- ſon of this Law is common to all ſuch. 2. By comparing this 3- Becauſe the firſt-born of all Beaſts were appropriated to God, and becauſe many of them were unclean, and ſo could nor be fſacrificed,there was'no other way of offering them to Tod, bur by redemption, or a price paid far them. And the
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Creatures was allowed and required. The Aſs alone 1s here nameg |
for ail the rei', beczuſe this Creature was moſt common, and moſt
uſcfu], ani yet was —_ be /pared ; whence it waseaſfy to infer, h
that this courſe was muCTh rather to be obſerved in other Creatures which were of leſs uſe. p Or, Cut of *his neck, or head, as the word
7 As afterwards they attempted to do, Numb: 14: up- On a like occaſion.
18 But God * ledthe people about through the ye * Chap? of the wilderneſs of the r2d-fea, and the children of 1{- r,. ..
rael went up f harneſſed z out of the land of Egypt. Þ Or, z Or, Armed, or girt with Swords and Belts about the fifth Rib, fve in 8
as the Hebrew word may imply. Burt it doth not appear how, or 7%. whence they ſhovld get their Arms, or how the Ezyprians would permit ſo numerous a People to have, and to keep Arm-,cfpecially when they had a long time oppreſſed and exaſperated them, and made them deſperat. Ir is true, ſome few of them might procure Arms, but this word is here uſe concerning the whole Body of them. Others render it by fves, five and five in a. Rank, thar is, by an uſual Synecdoche, in Military Order, not doubrfully and fear- fully,but confidently and couragioufly; not confuſcd!y,as men that ſteal or run away, but in good order, ſo as one might nor hinder another. Which Interpretation is ſtrengthned by comparing Joſ: 1: 14. It may be rendred girt, to wit, about the fifth Rib,as the-word implies, the place where men uſed. to gird their Garments, this being the ufual poſture for Travellers : He implies that they went 'out reſolved upon, and prepared for their journey.
19. And Moles took the bones of Joſeph a with him: for he had ftraitly ſworn oy children of Ifrael b, ſay-
ing *, God will ſurely viſit you, and ye ſhall carryup * Gen: 50; _
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my bones away hence with you. 25. Joſh. 4 And the other Patriarehs, as appears from Affs 7. 16. b The 24- 32. | Oath was taken only þy the Parents ; but becauſe the matter of it Numb. was not perſonal, and.of particular .concernment-/ to them, but 33: 6. common to them and their Children; therefore it obli ed both the Chap.40. Parents and their Children, as Moſes here fignifierh. : 3 Numbg LE 4- 14s 20 \ And * they took their journey from Suc- Dn coth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wil- 33. Pfl. derneſs. ' 7 8. 14.and | 21 And* the _ c went before them £2» rh AE 4 4 ay x.
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day in a pillar of a cloud e to lead them the way f,and by night in a pillar of fire, to give chem light to go by
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wn —amge God, whoſe Preſence and Condutt the Iſraelites had in the Wilderneſs, as appears from 1 Cor. 10. 4, 9. Compare Heb 1. 26. who is ſometimes called the Ange! of the Lord, chip. 14. 19 becauſe he was, and was to be his Father's Angel or Meſſenger, ſent by God unto Men to ratify his Covenant with them; w hence he is called the Angelof the Covenant, Mal: 3: 1: as he is upon ano- ther account called the Angel of his Preſence, Iſa: 63: 9. «d Not b local Motion, but by his gracious and powerful Operations for and about them. e It was but one Pillar, Numb: 9g: 15. 16. having two different appearances and uſes ofa Cloud by day, to defend them from the heat, Pſal: 105: 39: which in thoſe parts was exceſſive ; and of a Fire by night ro illuminat them. Ir was a Cloud ecrecte.. ' towards Heaven, like a Pillar upwards ; but downwards tat and broad, ſpread over the body of the People, and afterwards more eminently over the Tabernacle. f Which was alrogether necel{;-
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I: 33. ; 22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day. * nor the pillar of fire by night from before che people p, g Whilſt they continued in the Wilderneſs, and had necd of ſuch