Orc; 32 And the }* firſt # of all the firſt-fruits of all :hings, r,cnief. 4 Fo F * * Exod.zz and every oblation # of all of every fort x of your ob- 2. & 22, lations ſhall be the prieſts : ye * ſhall alſo give unto the 29, 30. prieſt the firſt of your dough y, that he may cauſe the m—_— p, blefling to reſt in thine houle. oo ; z So ſoon as the firſt Fruits are ripe in the Field, your Vineyards Þ and Olive-yards, &c. nay Redemption-money for the Firſt-born of Man was theirs. « Whether Free-will Offering, or preſcribed, x Of what ſort ſoever, whether of Flock or Herd, &c. »y Tis con- ceived this was of every Maſs of Dough they made, andof the firſt of the Dough, which every Year they firſt made of the new Corn, as by the Cuſtom of the Jews at this Day appears; who ſincethey can- not give to the Prieſt, will burn a lirtle Cake of every Batch in the Oven. = The Prieſt may bleſs and pray for thee.
01 Theprieſts ſhall not eat of any thing that is dead of it ſelf or torn, whether it be fowl or beaſt.
This forbidden toall the Jews, much more to the Prieſts, Exod. 22. 31. and Lev. 22, 8.
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2. um.I5. 20 Neh.
30. 37.
CHAP. XLV.
Certain portion of Iand ſeparated for the ſanftuary, prieſts and Levites ; for the city and the prince, 16. Ordinances concerning manifold offerings for the people and the prince, 17—25,
Heb. Tt A ff Oreover, when ye a Þ+ ſhall divide by lot 5 I the M the land c for inheritance, ye ſhall * offer an landto fall.gblation 4 unto the LORD, Þ an holy e portion of the — 4+land : the length ſpall be the length of five and twenty + Heb. 5}. thouſand reeds .f, and the breadth {7/7 be ten thou-
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b at no dead perſon to de-
ſand g : this ſhall be holy < in all the borders thereof
round about. &
2 Ye returned Jews reſtor'd to your own Land. 4 It was not on the Return divided by Lot, as 'rwas by Joſhua, but Lot and Inheritaiice are the ſame many times in the Scripture, and the Expreſſion alludes to the uſual way of aſſigning Inheritances. c Landof Canaay. 7 A; 'ris fit God have his Portion firſt ſet out. e By its Relation to Gog and becauſe dedicated to his Service. f The Heb. doth not expreſ, &. ther Reeds or Cubits; our Tranſlators ſupply Reeds, but the Frexch reads it Cubits (Coudees) Rochel edit. 1616. The Gr. keeps tothe Heb. ang adds not Reed or Cubit : could it be demonſtrated which is here intended, we might proceed with greater clearneſs and certainty "Tis true, Reeds are firſt mention'd as the Meaſure, but Cubrts are allo very ofren mention'd, as a known Meaſure ig meaſuring the Temple and Courts, as appears to any one that will read overtheſe four Chap.
burbs » thereof,
ters, 40, 41, 942, 43- beſidethe ſecond werſe expreſly faith Cubits, and it hath relation as wel] to the 25300, wer, 1, I rather favour the Cubir-Meaſure than the
a half. This eaſily, che other hardly imaginable. g Reeds is at i=aft
{ 30 Mves and a half, but Cubits amount to five Miles in breadth, and
this ſeems to me both likelicſt ro be intended, and eaſieſt to be un. derſtood ; however ſince the firſt wer. mentions not the particylz; Meaſure, I may as well borrow it from the ſecond wey. as others fetch it from the 4o chap. and I think the third expreſly limits us to the Meaſure by Cubit«, which ſee with Notes, let. o. 4 Set apart for holy Utes, the whole Circuit thereof.
2 Of this z there ſhaii be for the ſanQuary & * fe,
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ld z; Whole conſecrate Portion of 25000 Cubits long, or 12 Miles and
ha'f, and 10000 broad , or five Miles and little more. & For a Platform
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hundred in Jength 7, with five hundred i» breadth, ſquare round about : and fifty cubits 9 round about, for the || fu."
for the SanQtuary, both Houſe and Courts. 7 Five hundred Cubirs ſquare, which is about one fourth of a Mile ſquare. = Which 4a. mount to 29 Yards and half a Foot. This bears ſome proportion to the content of that Square, which is one quarter of a Mile in each Side, but 50 Cubirs Suburb to that Square, that ſhould be ſuppoſed to have Sideseach a Mile, a half, and half quarter long. » Place roung about this the five hundred Cubits ſquare Mountain of the Houſe,
3 And of o this meaſure ſhalt thou meaſure the length of five and twenty thouſand, and the breadth of ten thouſand ; and in it p ſhall be the ſanQuary, end the moft holy place, : o Or by or from this Cubir-meaſure, verſe 2. ſhalt thou meaſure : So expreſs that indeed I wonder a diſputean ariſe ; and this juſtifies ,the French Verſion, which from this verſe no doubt rook the Coudz, ; which they ule in verſe 1. p In the Center or Navel of chis 25000
and rooo0o, ſhall the whole ſanQuary, Courrs, Temple and Holy of
» Sin-offering being mention'd immediately before, gives the oc- Holies, or the Oracle, be built.
one, all ocher offerings are couched ; and if the Lord do fo expreſly prieſts 7 the miniſters of the ſanuary, which ſhall come near to miniſter unto the LORD, and it ſhall be a place for their houſes 5, and an holy place * for the {anuary.
r Sons of Zadok who miniſter to the Lord, and others with them, who though degraded from the Prieſtly Honour, yet lived upon Pref ly Proviſion.
4 The holy portion q of the land ſhall be for the
7 The whole content of 12 Miles and half long, and five broad,
sIn which twenty three of twenty four Courſes of
Prieſts may dwell conveniently,while the 24:h.miniſter atthe Temple,
as by order they did.
t And how much God did reſerve to himſelf for
his dwelling is expreſly mentioned. Thus God makes himſelf and what 1s his, the Inheritance and Poſſeifion of the Prieſts his Ser-
vants, as he told them, chap. 44. 28.
5 And the five and twenty thouſand of length, :nd
the ten thouſand of breadth ſhall alſo the Levites the mi.
zens of Jeruſalem, and to be the content of the City. » Miles and half broad, and 12 Miles and half long,meaſured by *t* Cubir, as wer. 3 with the holy Portion, though bur half its breadch. . and capital City, to which the Tribes reſort, ic muſt be large np ro entertain them too; and was to be framed with ewelve Gates © twelve Streets, for the twelve Tribes, as chap. 48. wer. 31-
one 4d fide and on the other e of the holy portion f, and of the poſſeſlion of the © ty, before g the oblation of the holy portion, and fore the poileflion of the city, from the well-lide
niſters of the houſe have for themſelves, for a poſleflion tor twenty chambers. |
As we render the Words they are a little clouded, but as they ate