God allowed them to marry, only direQs it be not one of ill fame t. Heb: or divorc'd, Lev. 21. 13, 14. nor the Widow of any deceaſed com-/ . mon Perſon; yet a Prieſt mighc marry a Prieſt's Widow, but a Virgin P rather comrnended to their choice ; and whether Widow or Virgin, it muſt not be as Moſes married a Daughter of a figange People, or as they did in Bebylon, Exrs, 10. 18, &«. ang poſſibly this of Ezekiel was deſign'd as a Rule to dire& Ezra in reforming this Diſorder when they came from Babylon; rior were they at liberty to marry any of any Tribe, but it muſt be one of their own Tribe too.
23 And * they ſhall teach o my people: difference be. * Chap: eween the holy p and profane, and cauſe them to diſcern 4 22. 26. between the unclean and the clean. _ | Mal. 2.7
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ment, and they ſhall judge # it according to my judg-|
EZVERKTE L.
ments « : and they x ſhall keep my laws and my ſtatiftes
in all mine aſſemblies y, an baths &.
» In doubts about lawful and unlawfu), in Pretences ef right and
wrong in all Conteſts. s If the Controverſte be broughrto them, they?
ſhall hezr and conſider. 7 Shall determine, end the Controverſie, and reconcile Parties. u Not as they favour and affe&, or diſaffe&t and
they ſhall hallow my ſab-
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hate, bur according to what God hath by his Laws in that behalf di-
refed. x Prieſts firſt, and People with them. » Publick Congrega- tions for worſhipping of God. z With holy Care obſerve the Sab- baths as days of holy Work, to be ſpent in ſecret, Family and publick Worſhipof God as he requires.
25 And * they a ſhall come
* Lev. 21. - file themſelves : but c for father or for mother, or for ſon
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or for daughter, for brother, or for ſiſter that hath had no|I am apr to chink that ;1aS to the 500, wer. 2.
{ Reed, that ſo the whole Content may not ſeem overgrown, for + I Reca-Meaſure this Portion contains at leaſt 75 Miles, and a liitlemore 11n length , but at the Cubit-Meaſure it amounts but to 12 Miles and
husband, they may defile 4 themſelves. ; @ The Prieſts who come near to miniſter before the Lord, 45 Net-
ther touch nor come into the Room, or attend rhe Funeral of the Dead : For this would be a legal and ceremonial Defilement, and it is prohibited, Lev. 21. 1. The Jews tell us, that who comes within four Cubits of the Dead is defiled, and the Law, tho it determine not at what diſtance ſuch are defiled, it dothdetermine that they are unclean till evening by touch, or coming near the Carcaſe of any but Man; and the Defilement by coming near a dead Man laſted 7 Days. c The Prieſt was indulged in the Death of ſo near R=laci ons, as Lev. 21. 2, 3. Where they are reckon'd up as 1n this Verſe. d Mourn for them, touch them, be at their Funerals, and ſhew their natural Affe&ions to them. |
* Num.6. 26 And * after he is cleanſed e, they f ſhall reckon g
T0. & 19. unto him ſeven days.
ak £ Affeer thar for ſeven days he hath kept from thedead, by which the Jcws accounted a Man was cleanſed; for as Nearneſs did d-file, ſo Abſence did cleanſe in this Caſe. f The Prieſts who are about the Houſe of God. g Shall appoint ſeven Days more to this defiled Per- ſon for his cleanſing b fore ae is admitted into the Santtuary.
27 And in the day that he goeth + into the ſanqu.
ary z, unto the inner court, to miniſter k in the ſanctu- ary, he ſhall offer his ſin-offering /, ſaith the Lord
GOD.
h During the Days of his uncleanneſs he kept out of the Sanftuary ; when the Days of purifying are fulfiled, he then may goin. # Not the Temple it felt, but as the next Words haveir, the inner Courr. & To execute the Prieſts Office, 1*Tis not faid what this ſhould be, nor doth that Lev. 6. 21. refer to this. I think rather that Lev. 4. 3. a young Bullock wzs to be this Sin-offering in purifying as it was 1n conſecrating him, chap. 43. 19.
28 And it » ſhall be unto them for an inheritance » : I * 277 their inheritance o : and ye ſhall give them no poſ-
ſeffion p in Iſrael ; I am their poſleflion 9.
*Num. 18. 20. Deur. Io. 9. & 88. 1,2 Joſh. 13. I4, 33-
caſion of repeating the proviſion made for the Prieſts, for under this require a defil'd Prieſt to bring his Sin-offering, in which the mi. niſtricg Prieſts had their ſhare, he would expeG the ſame of all 1/- rael, which would amount to a great Sum. » Inſtead of Lands and Cities. o God is the Inheritance of all his People, but eſpecially of bis Pricſts, and ſo what is given to God by him is afſign'd ro his Officers. p As the reſt of the Tribes had. 9 The peculiar Bleſſing of God on them, and their ſhare in his Offerings was a very rich Poſiefſion. :
29 They ſhall eat the meat offering r, and the ſIn-offer. ing, and the treſpaſs.offering; and every || dedicate thing 5 in Iſrael ſhall be theirs.
7 We muſt not think that the whole of theſe were eat, God had his Part, and the Prieſt his Part too; ſomewhat of each came to the Prieſt. s As the firſt Fruits and Tithes, &c. the Prieſt had part of them.