Nums 8: 125 Deur: | 18: 4s _ be waved. So it 1s a Synecdochical exprefſion. þ Who had to them- TIRE [elves not only the breaſt and ſhoulder, as in others, which belonged ro the Prieſt, bur alſo the reſt which belenged to rhe offerer ; becauſe -he whole Congregation being the offzrer here, it could neither be diſtribured to them al], nor given to ſome without offence or injury to the reſt. |
21 And ye ſhall proclaim on the ſelf-ſame day, hat it may be an holy convocation 3 unto' you : ye ſhall do 20 fervile work therein : it ſhall be a ſtatute for ever in all your dwellings, throughout your generations.
# A Sabbath or day of Reſt, called Pentecoſt; which was inſtituted, -artly 1n remembrance of the conſummarion of their deliverance »ur of Egypt by bringing them thence to the mount of God, or Sinat, iS God had promiſed, and of that admirable Bleſſing of giving the Law to them at that time, and forming them into a Common-wealth ander his own immediate Government; and partly in gratitude for the further progreſs of their Harveſt, as in the Paſſeover they _ a Thank-offering to God for the beginning of their Har- Veir.
22 And * when ye reap the harveſt of your land, thou & ſhalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy held when thou reapeft, * neither ſhalt thou gather any gleanings of thy harveſt : thou ſhalt leave them unto the
poor, and to the ftranger ; I am the LORD your God.
k From the plural, ye, he comes to the ſingular, thou, becauſe he would preſs this duty upon every perſon who hath an harveſt to reap, chat none might plead exemption from it, And it is obſervable, thar though the preſent buſineſs is only concerning the Worſhip of God, yet he makes a kind of excurſion to repeat a former Law of providing for the Poor, to ſhew that our piery and devotion to God 15 lirtie eſteemed by ham. if it be not accompanied with atts of Charity ro Men.
23 And the LORD ſpake unto Moſes, ſaying,
24 Speak unto the child:en of Iſrael, ſaying, in the * ſeventh month, in the firft < of the month, ſhall ye have a ſabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets 7,
an holy convocation.
I ( 5. e.) Solemnized with the blowing of trampets by the Prieſts, not in a common way, as they did every firſt day of every month, Numb: 11: 10, bur in an extraordinary manner, not only 1n Feruſalem, bur in all the Ciries of 1{-ae/, This ſeems to have been inſtitured, 1. ToSolemnize the beginning of the new year, whereof as to civil matters, and particularly as to the Jubilee, this was the firſt day ; concerning whichit was fitthe people ſhould beadm-niſhed; both to excite their thankfulnets for Gods Bleſſings in the lalt year, and to dire& them 11 the management of their civil affairs, 2. To put a ſpecial honour upon this month. For as the ſeventh day was che Sabbath, and the ſeventh year was a Sabbatical year, ſo God would have the ſeventh month to be a kind of Sabbaticatmoath, for the many Sabbaths and ſolemn Feaſts which were obſerved in this more thaiuin any other month. Ard by this ſcundiag of the rrumpets in its beginning God would quicken and prepare them for the fol- lowing Sabbaths, as well thatof atonement and humiliation for theie ſins, as thole of thankſgiving for Gods Mercies.
25 Ye ſhall do no farvile work therein : but ye ſhail ofter an offering »» made by fire unto the LORD.
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convocation unto you, and ye ſhall afii& your ſouls”, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. |
» With faſting, and bitter repentance for all, eſpecially their National fins, among which no doubt God would have them remem- ber their fin of the golden Calf. For as God had threatned to remember it in after times to puniſh them for it, Exod: 32: 344 10 there was great reaſon why they ſhould remember 1t to humble them- ſelves for it.
28 And ye ſhall do no work in that fame day : for it zs a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you, before the LORD your God, | :
29 For whatſoever ſoul iz be 9 that (ball not be afili- &ed in that ſame day, * he ſhall be cut off from among his people. 3 -
o Either of the Jewiſh Nation, or Religion. Hereby God would ſignifie the abſolute neceſſity which every man had of Repentance and Forgiveneſsof fin, and the defperate condition of all imperutent Perſons, ;
20 And whatſoever ſoul 5: be that doth any work in that ſame day, the ſame ſoul will I deſtroy fromamong his people. :
21 Ye ſhall do no manner of work : #t ſhall be a ſtatute for ever throughout your generations, in all your dwellings,
32 It fall be unto you a ſabbath of reſt, and ye (ball afli& your ſouls in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even ball yet celebrate your ſabbath p.
p This clauſe ſeems tobe added to anſwer an objeftion, how this day ofatonement could be both on the zenth day, ver. 27. andon the ninth day here. The anſwer is, it beganat theevening or cloſe of the ninth day, and continued till the evening or cloſe of the tenth day, and ſo both were true, eſpecially if you conſider, that the Jews
did take in ſome part of the ſix days evening by way of preparation |
for the Sabbath, and therefore would much more take in a part of theninth day to prepare and begin the great and ſolemn work of their yearly atonement. And this clauſe may be underſtood eirher, 1. Of this particular Sabbath called here your Sabbath in the ſingular number, poſſibly to note the difference between this and other Sabbaths : for the weekly Sabbath is oft called che Sabbath of the Lord,
becauſe that was in a ſpecial manner appointed for the praiſing, |