43 Thatyour generations may know that I made the children of Iſrael to dwell in booths, when I brought , them outof theland of Egypt: I aw the LORD your God. | 44 And Moſes declared unto the children of Iſrael] ' the icaſts of the LORD,
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' Laws about the oyl of the Candleſticks and the preparation of it jp Cm. "9 the Shew-bread, 5 — 9. Shelomith's Son Blaſphemes : He is Put im Cuſtod :
and God conſulted ; and all that heard him, laying their hands on his Head,
he is ſtoned ; and this paſſes into a Law, 10 ==16, Life for Life Beaſt
for B: aſt, Eye for Eye, &c. The ſame Law for the Stranger 4s 4 Native,
I 7] mmm 2 2,
| ” D the LORD ſpake unto Moſes, ſaying,
: 2 Command the children of Ifracl, that the bring 4 unto thee pure oyl-olive, beaten, for the lights F to Cauſe the lamps to burn continually. :
# At their common charge, becauſe it was for their commo and ſervice. This command was given before, Exod; 27: 208
2 Without the vail of the teſtimony 5, inthe tabernacle "_ of the congregation ſhall Aaron c order it from the eveningunto the morning, before the Lord continually ; it 78 ” a ſtatute for everin your generations. i.e.) Which was before the Ark of the i : by par Kaedr his ſons, Exod poi m_OORy. -c Either 4 He ſhall order the lamps upon * the pure 4 c
| andle-
ſtick before the LORD continually. q ” *E
a So called, partly becauſe ic was made of becauſe it was to be oft dreſſed and always kept F aragg gold, partly
5 And thou e ſhait take fine tlour, and bake twelve,
31:8:
e By the Prieſts or Levites, whoſe work it was 1 Chron: 9: 32. ft Re refonris th "> to Prepare them 25: 30: TR Rheroges = g the twelve Tribes. g (i.e. ) Two
6 And thou ſhalt ſet them in two rows 5, fix on a
row, upon the pure table ; before the LORD. | h Not. one above another, but one beſide another, as the frank. incente put upon each, werſe 7: ſhews. 7 So called becauſe it was covered with pure gold, Exod: 25: 24: and becauſe it Was aiways to be kept very pure and clean by the care of the Prieſts. 4
7 And thou ſbalt pur pure frankincenſe k upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial —_—_ oting made by fire unto the LORD. :
AmIxed and uncorrupted, or of the beſt ſort. / Or, *
m_ or for zhe bread, to wit, to be burnt before the "oa" ag - the bread, which could not conveniently be offered to God in _ _ And this was done every time that the bread was changed. 7 Forthat part which properly belenged toGod, whereas 956 on Z2v27; 2; 2,
8 Every
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4s And ye (hall take you on the firſt day the + T Heb:
t Heb: n good ;, cauſe to
xod:
*cakes f thereof ; two tent-deals g ſhall be in one cake. * Exod:
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Nu! + tHeb expour wnto t/ accord; to the
mouth the LO *Deut 9. & 1
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I "Chap. XXV. | $ Fvery ſabbath he ſhal ſet it in order before the LORD » continuallie, being taken o from the chiidrez,
of Iſrael by an everlaſting covenant p.
7 Whence it was called rm, benny" Heb. the bread of faces, Or of preſente, i. e. the bread which was put upon the Table in the Lo: d's preſence. o Such ſupplements are nor unuſual. Thus7n the floor, 1 King. 22. 10. is put for ſiting the floor, 2 Chron. 18. 9g. and burdens- 2 Chron. 2. 18. for carrying burdens, IT King. 5.15. And theſe cakes are ſaid to be received from or offered by the children of Ijracl, becauſe they were bought with the money which they contributed, as may be ſeen Nehem. 10. 32, 33. as Judas 1s ſaid ro purchaſe the feld, AE. 1. 18. which was purchaſed by his money, Mar. 27. 7. p. By vertue of that compatt made between me and them, by which they are obliged to keep this amongſt other Commands, and, they ſo do- ing, I am obliged to be their God, and to bleſs them. And this may be here called an everlaſting Covenant, not only becauſe it was to endure as long as the Jewiſh religion and polity ſtcod, bur alſo becauſe this was to ſtand there everlaſtingly, or continually, as 1s here ſaid, and therefore the new cakes were firſt brought betore the old were taken away
#xod.2g. 9 And * it q hall be Aarons and his ſons, and they ;3. ch. 8. ſhall eat itin the holie place : for it is moſt holie unts 31. 1 Sam. hjm, of the offerings r of the LORD made by fire, by
wg *- a perpetual ſtature. hy q (i.e.) The old bread now to be taken away. 7 Or, as one or being one of the offerings, &c. in regard of the incenſe which was
offered by fite,and that ior or inſtcad of the bread,as was ſaid on ver
7. and therefore the bread was reputed as if ut had been ſo offered.
10 And the ſon of an Iſrae;itiſh woman, whole fa-
ther vas an Egyptian s, went out # among the children
of Iſrael: and this ſon of the Ifſraelitiſh woman, and a
man of 1fſrael ſtrove together « in the camp.
s This circumance ſeems noted, partly to ſhew the danger of marriages with perſons of wicked principlcs 01 p-aftiſes, wherein the children, as one wittily and truly obſerves, like the concluſion, do commonly follow the wo:ſe part, and are more eaſtly taught by word or example, to do ten things agreeable to their corrupt na- tures, than one thing contrary to it; and partly by thi ſeverity againit him who was a ſtranger by the father, and an Iſraelite by the mother, to ſhew that God wou'd not have this lin to go unpu- niſhed amongſt his people, whatſoever he was that committed it. : To wit, out of Egypt, being one of that mixed multitude, which came out with the 1ſraehzes, Exod. 12.32. It is pr: bable, this was done when the 1ſraelites were near Sinai: u This 1s added to ſhew, that provocation to ſin is no juſtification of lin.
11 And the Ifraclitiſh womar.s ſon | blaſphemed the 10c, nan. Name of the LORD x, and curſed y, and they z brought ed. Gen. him untoMoſes s, (and his mothers name 45Sh2lomith, the daugater of Dibri. of the tribe of Pan
x The words of the Lord, or of Jehovah, are here conveniently ſup- plied out of v. 16. were they areexp el{-d,but here they are omited for the aggravation of his crime. He blaſphemed the Nam? ſo. called by way Of eminency; that Name which is above every name ; that Name which a man ſhould .n ſome ſort tremble to mention; which 1s not to be named without cauſe, and withour reverence. For which reaſon the godly Jews did many times :ather underſtand than
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