waſh withal. hands and their feet thereat.
on, and when they came near unto the altar,they waſh- ed ; as the LORD commanded Moles.
*Lev: 16:
2. Numb: 'I5:
- King:8:
10: Ia: 6:
4;Rev:1 55
$e
*Chap: 22: r8:
bernacle, and thealtar, and ſet up the hanging of the court-gate, ſo Moſes finiſhed the work.
i And Moſes, and Aaron and his ſons, waſhed their
22 When they went into the tent of the congregati-
33 And he reared up the court round about the ta-
to the Mount till he was called, Exod, 24:
34 * Then a cloud covered the ten of the congrega- tion,and the glory of the LORD 5 filled the tabernacle. hb C i.e. ) The glorious Preſence of God, which having been
16. | 35 And when the c!oud was taken vp from over the
tabernacle, thechiidren of Iſrael + went onward in all f Hebs | Jo urneyeay
cheir journeys. 37But if che cloud were not taken up, then they jour- neyed not, till the day that it was taken up.
38 For the cioud of the LORD was upon the taber- nacle by day, and fire & was on it by night, in the ſight of all the houſe ef Iſrael, throughour all their jour- neys.
! The ſame Pillar which in the day-time was like a Cloud, in the
night-time had the appearance of Fire. See Exod, 13: 21:
Annotations on LEVITICUS.
The ARGUMENT,
bf as Book, containing the Attions cf about one Months ſpace, acquainteth us with the Levitical Ceremonies uſed after
the Tabernacle was eretied, and ancinied inthe Wilderneſs, and iis therefore called Leviticus: It treats of Laws con- cerning perſons, and things, clean and unclean, by infirmity, or accident; as alſo purifyings in general once « Year, and divers particular cleanſmgs,with a brief repetition of aivers Laws, Chap, 19, together with certain Feaſts, of ſeven Nears reſt, of the Fubilee, andthe redemption of things conſecrated 19 God, &c. but eſpecially of ſuch Ceremonies as were uſed about Offerings and Sacrifices, which were both expiatory for Treſpaſſes wi:tinsly or unwittingly committed, whether by the People or the Prieſfts;and alſs Euchariſticsl, in the owning of God's Bleſſings. Here are declared alſs Laws for the regulating of theſe, and preſcribing the lawful time fer Marriages ; here is ſet down how ſeveral abominable Sins are puniſhable vy the Magiſtrgre, and how theſe
things are to be managed by certain perſons appropriated to the Tribe of Levi, and the fudgment particularly inflited on Nadab and hbihu for an Example. Her
Male-adminiſtration of it - vhs
whoſe Office is confirmed from Heaven, and the
are alſo promiſes, and threatnings, to the obſervers, or breakers of this Laws
CM AF 4
God commands Moſes concerning free-will burnt-offerings of bullock o+ ſheep;mals without blemijh, 1---=3. The offerer 19 lay aus hand on the head of ihe offe= ring that it might be accepted jor him, 4. The bullock to be ſlain and its blood ſprinkled on the altar, 5. Its parts #9 be conſumed by fire, 7-==-9, Of goats, 10. Of fowls, as turtle-doues and young pigeons; their blaod 7s be wrung out at the ſide of the altar, 14 «=-17;
N D the LORD called unto Moſes 4, and ſpake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congre- gation b, ſaying,
a Who ſtood withour, Exod: 4o: 35: waiting for God's call, bFrom the Mercy-ſeat in the Tabernacle.
2 Speak unto the children of Iſrael, and fay unto them, * If any man of you bring an offering c unto the LORD, ye (bal! bring your offering of the cattel, eves of the herd, andof the flock 9d.
. £ There are divers kinds of Sacrifices here preſcribed,ſome by way of acknowledgement to God for Mergies either deſired or recetv- ed;others by way of fatisfaftion to Ged for Men's Sins; others were meer exerciſes of Piety and Devotion. And the realon why there are ſo many kinds of them was, partly, reſpeCt to the childiſh eſtare of the Jews, who by the cuſtom of Nations,and their own natural In- clinations were. much addiCted ro outward Rites and Ceremonies, that they might have full employment of that kind in God's Service, & thereby be kept from temptations to Idolatry;and partly to repre- ſent as wel! the ſeveral perfe&ions of Chriſt, the true Sacrifice, and the various benefits of his Death, as the ſeverai Duties which Men owe to their Creator and Redeemer, all which could not be fo well expreſſed by one ſort of Sacrifices. 4 Or, Of the ſhzep ; though the H.brew word contains borh the Sheep and the Goats, as appears beth from the uſe of the word, Gen: 12: 16: and 27: 9: and 35: 17: and from verſe 16. and other places of Scripture» Now God choſe theſe
| kinds of Creatures fer his Sacrifices, either 1. In oppoſition to the
TOr, zo be Accepted for him. Ifa:56 T2 and 58:5: and 60:7. Jer. 6: 20,
Egyptian Idolatry, to which divers of the 1/raelitzs had been uſed, and were ſtill in danger of revoiting to again,rhat the frequent deſtruQi- on of theſe Creatures mighs bring ſuch filly Deities into contempr. Or 2. Becauſe theſe are the fitteſt repreſentations both of Chriſt and of true Chriſtians, as being Gentle,2nd Harmleſs, and Patient, and moſt uſeful to Men. Or 3. As the beſt and moſt profitable Creatures with which it is fir God ſhould be ſerved, and which we ſhould be ready topart with,when God requires us to do ſo. Or 4, As things moſt common and obvious, thar Men might never want a Sacrifice when they needed,or God required it.
3 If his offering be a burntsſacrifice e ofthe herd,let him offer a male f without blemiſh g : he (hall offer it + of his own voluntary will þ, at che door of the taber- nacle of the congregation z before the LORD,
e Stritly ſo called, fuch as was to be all burnt,the Skin excepted, Levit. 7: 8. See'Gen: 8: 20. and 1 Kings 3: 15: For otherwiſe every Yacriice was burnt, mare or leſs, T'ue Sacrifices did partly fignifte
| that the whole Man, in whoſe ſtead the Sacrifice was offered, wag