11 The ephah and the bath ſhail be of one mea- ſure f, that the bath may contain the- tenth part of an homer g, and the ephah the tenth part o: an - homer : the meaſace thereof ſhall be after tlio homer.
F One ſhall contain as much as the other ; (he Epboh! ſhall contin a5 many Gallons of dry, as the Bath doth contain of liquid things. g Which is commonly ſaid to be 30 Buſhels, or near it : So that 51:5 Ephah will be ſame 3 Buſhels in dry things, and the Bat G4 Pints, or 5 Gallons 1n liquid thiags. ; |
12.And the * ſhekel þ ſha be twenty geralis : twenty ſhekels, five and twenty ſhekels, fifteen ſhekels ſhall be your maneh z. - |
þ Having laid down the Standard for Weight and Meaſure in 1={,
ation of which was part of the Prince his Prerogative : The firſt meq- ; tioned in the Text is the Shckel, which, faith the Text, contained rwenty Gerahs ; row every Gerah was one Penny half” Pznny Engliſh value ; the Shekel then was 2 5. 64, the twenry Shekels was rwo Pounds ten Shillings, the 15 Shekels was one Pound 17 Shillings and 6 Pznce, and twenty five was 31.25.64. i Somefay 'ris one Pound, and char the Pound was either Jeaſt, middle or greateſt, according as there were more or fewer Shekels in it ; the leaſt or common Pound was buc I7 £.and 6 4. the nexr, which was the Royal was 50 5. and the greateſt or Pound ofthe Sanftuary, was 62 Shiliings and 6 Fence.
13 This «x the ofNation that ye ſhall offer &; the ſixth Zpart of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye ſhall give the ſixth part of an ephah of an homer cf barley.
k In the daily Service, the Morning and Evening-Sacrif-e, ther? muſt be Wheae and Barley-flower. ! Sixtieth part of an Homer,abou: one half Buſhel and one Peck, and one quarter of a Peck, a4 thre? Pints, or near it, ſo ſome : Others abate the odd Meaſures,and ſay the Ephah was abour our half Buſhel, as indeed ic cag beno more ; itthe Homer were zo Buſhels, the Ephah a tenth parc of the Homer, that is three Buſhels, the fixth part of the Ephah amounts co four Galloas, or half a Buſhel.
14 Concerning the ordinance of oil #2, the batt of ol 7 ye ſhall offer the tenth o part of a bath our of the
cor p, which # an homer of ten baths ; tor ten baths 2re
an homer : |
2 Now foraſmuch as Oil was always offered with the Meat-offer- ing, here is Direction what quantity ſhall be uſed ar each Offering. » Which contained abour 24 Gallons, or very near it. o So the qu2r- tity of Oil by this Account will be two Gallons, three Pints, and a l:t- tle more. p Which is here ſaid to be an Homer ; theſe were rwo Names of one and the ſame Meaſure, and deſcribed by the Baths ir contained.
dred, out of the fat paſtures of Iſract.; for a meat-ot-,
fering , and for a burnt-offering , and for
Lord GOD.
This Verſe preſcribes the Proportion that is to be obſerved in bring- ing the Lambs for daily Sacrifice ; they were bound to chooſe ont of rhe beſt Paſtures of 7ſ-sc! the beſt, and fatteſt Lambs; one out of rwo hundred ; ſo favourable was God to them in theſ: Cartel, raking to tew out of ſo many : And theſe Lambs were deſigned for to be off-rc with the Meat-offering, either in expiatory Sacrifices, or in Eucha- riſtical Sacrifices : Thus daily Sacrifices kepr up their Peace with God.
tion {| for the prince in Iſrael. PE The plain and ſummary Meaning of this Verſe 1s, that this daily '
Sacrifice ſhould be, as for the People and the Priace, {o fhould ic be
paovided by a common Purte of Prince and Pcoplz ; all thou!d cone
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tribute to this Charge : Though ſome think the People were to give this, and the Prince to give a like Share ; and I know (ome think, that this Prince is the High-Pricft, and that 2!l the People,joining and contriburing to this Sacrifice, are here bound to bring ic to the High. Prieſt.
17 And it ſhall be the princes pare 9 rt give burnt. offerings r, and meat - offerings 5, and drink-offer ings *, in the feaſts « and in the new moons, and in the ſabbaths, in all folemnities of the houſs of Iſrael : he ſhall prepare « the fſin-offering ; and the meac- offering, and the burnt - offering, and the || peace;
Iſrael z.
7 Beſide the Share he gives to the daily Sacrifice in the common Charge, wer. 16. the Princes bound alſoon Solemnirics to give Sacri- fices out of his own. r See Lev. 1. where the ſeare deſcribed. 5 $22 Lev. 3. 1, &fc. t Exod. 30. 9 and Num. 15. 24. the Driak off ring was ever joined with the Meat-offering, Nr. 29. 1, 16. 19, 22. s Which he doth particularly recount, as New Moons, Oc. of all pace ticularly to treat would be too long. x Here lieth the main deci. ding Circumſtance, whether the Secular or Eccleſiaſtical Prince be here intended : ſome fay this preparing is aſacerdoral Att in order ro Offering; if fo, ir muſt be the High-Prieft; bur Ithink they miſtake. This Preparing is nothing more than on the Prince's Charge ; and by his care to ſee; thar there be ſuch Beaſts ready ar hand as are required at ſich Soletnniries ; and fo "cis the Secular Prince. y See wer. 15. z All the People.
Prince remove oppretiive Cheating by divers Weights. 4 To rmea- ſare dry things, as Corn, Olives, Dates, &'c. e This Was 4 Meaſiire
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