þ Either this ordinance here treated of concerning abſtaining from holy things when they are unclean : Or more generally, that great ordinance whereby I have made them the Guardians of holy places and things to keep them from all defilement by themiclves or others. Heb: my watch, ( i.e.) the watch or guard which I have commanded them to keep. (7. ec.) Incur guilt and punith- ment. & ( 5. e. ) For the negle& or violation of it. /(#.c.) Their charge, or Gods ordinance about it. :
* See 10 * There ſhall no ſtranger » cat of the holy thing; x Sam: . ſojourner » of the priefts, or an hired ſervant ſhall
not eat of the holy thing 0. |
m (i: e: ) Of a ſtrange family, who is not a prieſt, as ver. 12. compare Matth:-12: 4. But there 1s an exception to this rule, v: 11. » One that comes to his houſe and abides there for a ſeaſon, and eats at his table. o Of theſe parts of the offerings, which fell to the preiſts ſhare, as the breaſt and ſhoulder. | 7 Bi
be ., 18 Burif che prieſt buy -»y ſoul + with his money, kao of he ſhall eat of it, and he that is born in his houſe ; they
his money. ſhall eat of his meat p. : > Becauſe they were wholly his, and as ſuch they were circum- + Heb: a ciſed, Gen: 17; Exod: 12.
man 3 x2 If the prieſts daughter alſo be married unto | a ftrarges. ſtranger q, ſhe may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
q (i. &) To one of another family, who is no prieſt. Yet the prieſts wife, though of another family, might eat. The reaſon of which difference is, becauſe the wife paſſeth into the name, ſtate and priviledges of her husband, from whom the family is denom1- ——_ and eſteemed.
13 Bar if the prieſts daughter be a widow, or di- yorced and have no child, and is returned unto her fa- * Chap: thers houſe, * as in her youth, ſhe hall eat of her fa- 10:14. hers meat, but there ſhall no ſtranger eat thereof, 14 And if a maneat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he hall put the fifth part thereof unto it r,and $hall give it unto the prieſt, with the holy thing 5. 7 Over and above the principal, and beſides the ram to be offer- ed to God, Levit: 5: t5. '5 Or, and ſhall give unto the Prieſt the holy
thing, 3. e. the worth of it, which the Prieſt was either to take to.
himſelf or to offer to God, as the nature of the thing was. i5 And they t ſhall not profane the holy things of the children of Iſrael, which they offer unto the LORD. : Either 1. The people ſhall not profane them, by eating them : Or 2. The Prieſts ſhall not profane them, 7. e. ſuffer the people to profane them, without cenſure and puniſhment. Both come to the ſame thing : The people ſhall not do it,nor the Prieſts ſuffer it. [| Or, !/ad2 16 Or || {uffer them to bear the iniquity of treſpaſs «, rhenjeiver when they eat their holy things : for I the LORD do eons of Tandtifie them. treſpaſs in _ * (7. e.) They i. e. the Prieſts, ſhall not ( the negative particle be- :heir eat= 19g underſtood out of the foregoing Clauſe, as Pſa!: 1: 5: and 9: 18.) ing: ſuffer them, i: e: the people, 70 bear the iniquity of treſpaſs, i: e: the pu- Py niſhmenr of their ſin, which they might expe& from God, and for the prevention whereof the priett was to ſee reſtitution made, &c. The words may be rendred thus, But ( ſo the Hebrew wau is oft tranſlated ) they 7. e. the Prieſts, ſhall make them, i. e. the people, 70 bear the iniquity, or puniſhment of their treſpaſs or ſin, 7: e: they ſhall re- quire from them reparations in manner here expreſſed.
17 And the LORD ſpake unto Moles, ſaying, 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his ſons, and unto all
*Ch.;., the children of Ifrael, and ſay unto them, * Whoſo-
3:10: | Ever be be of the houſe of Iſrael, or of the ſtrangers x in Iſrael, that will ofer his oblation for all his vows y, and for all his free-will-otterings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt-ofttering:
x Such as were Proſelytes. y See on Levit:: 7: 16s
19 Ye ſhall «ffer at your own will a male z without blemiſh of the beeves, of the ſheep, or of the goats.
x For a burnt-offering, which was always of that kind : but the females were excepted in peace-offerings, Lev. 3: 1: and fin-offer- ings, Lev: 4: 32:and 5.6. ;
* Deut: 20 * But whatſoever hath a blemiſh, hat ſhall ye not
15:21: offer : for it {ball not be acceptable for you.
idk 21 And * whoſoever oftereth a ſacrifice of peace-of-
* Ch: 3: 1: ffering unto the LORD, te aecompliſh þ;s vow, or a
[Or,g0as: free-will-offering in beeves or || ſheep, it thall be perfec, to be accepted 3 there ſhall be no blemiſh 2 therein.
a To wit, none of the blemiſhes mentioned, v. 22, 24. for ſome blemiſhes did not hinder the acceptance of a free-will-offering,but only of # vow, v, 23.
* ver: 20 22.* Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having awen, or ſcurvy, or {cabbed, ye {hall not offer theſe unto the LORD ; nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
| Oc.t;2, 23 Either a bullock, or a [lamb that hath any thing
ach;21:18 * ſuperfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayeſt thou
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offer b for a free-will-offering : but for a yow 1t -
not be accepted. : |
þ Either 1, To the Prieſt, who might, according to the 71/-5 given by God, either convert it to his own uſe, or ſell it, anc |, out the price of it upon the Temple and Sacrifices. Bur in this feri'e. any of the other kinds, as blind, or broken, &c. might be ole ed, which yes are forbidden to be offered, v. 22. or rather 2. T« the Lord, as is expreſſed, v: 22: 24: this being put down by way of op- poſition to thoſe defe&ts, v: 22: and by way of exception from the general rule, v: 21. |
24 Ye ſhall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruiſed, or cruſhed, or broken, or cut, neither ſhall ye make any offering hereof in your land.
25 Neither from a ſtrangers hand c (ball ye offer the bread dof your God of any of theſe e; becauſe their corruption 3s in them f, and blemiſhes be in them * they ſhall not be accepted for you g.