The Pulpit Commentary — Exodus — Volume 2 — Section 280

ponnd.•, Rod is AometiJnes )&id npon a little (Nnm. xx. 28); but not tlrnt of any l,it,,r cnrt with two wheol•. which the sheep drags high priPst. nfler it (Herod. iii. 113; Leo Afrie&n. ix. p. Ver. 31.-The um of oonseoratiou-i., .. 2!13 A ; Fellows, A8itJ Millll1', p. 10; Oesenius the part or the ram thut WILS left. an,( '""' ll"t oo voc. il'Litc), There is no doubt tha.t a been burnt (ver. 25). Seethe his fl11t1h in the "tRil " or tf;is kind is here me&nt. The o&ul. holy plROe. This WtlB understood to llll':ttt Rather," the mombrane." See the comment boiling at tlu, door or the tuhemacle (Lev on ver 13. The right ■houlder. Or " leg," viii. 31 ). !',- 111M:rifici&! meal followed on evl'ry Recording to some. The difference is not peace-offermg, m which the offerers partici- import.ant. pated. (See above, eh. xviii. 12.) Ver. 23.--0ne oa1ce of oiled bread-i.e., one Ver. 32.-The bread thRt is in the basket of the "nnleavened cakes tempered with oil," -i.e., the loe.f, cake, a.nd wafer which still re- mentioned in ver. 2. Out of the ba.aket of mained in the b11Bket after one of each hnd becu the UDleavened bread. See ver. 3. subtrRCted (see ver. 23, and compare vcn;. 2. 3). Ver. 24.-Thou ■halt put all in the hand■ , Ver. 33. - They Rhall eat those things or "on the hands." The offerings were to be wherewith the atonement wu made. Au la.id first, on the hands of Aaron, and then on atoning force pervaded all sacrifice. 8iu- those of his sons, which were to support them; offerings were wholly expiatory; bnrnt-offer- while Moses, putting his hands nnder their.I, ings and peace-offerings partially so (Lev ma.de a waving motion with them towards the i. 4). A stranger ahall not eat thereof. •• .l four comers of the heavens, to indicate that stranger" in this place does not mean a the gif1l! were offered to the omnipresent God. foreigner, but anyone who is not a priest. This process was that "filling of the hand," Ver. 3-l:.-Thou ahalt bum the remainder by which the RCtu.ol insta.llation in office took with ire. Compare above, eh. xii. 10. place. Moses, by the RCt, transferred the priestly functions, which he had hitherto exer- Vers. 35-37.-The Tepetitio,. of /he cere- cised, to his brother and his brother's descend- monial, and I.he oon.seCTaJ.ion of tlie alt,1r. ants. He me.de them by his muscular energy Ver. 35.--&ven days ■halt thou oonseorate perform their first priestly RCt. them. The repetition of the ceremony seven Ver. 25.-Thou ahalt reoeivethem at their times on seven sepll.I'ate days seems to be hands and bum them. Moses was still to intended. Thus was an ideal completeness continue the priestly acts, and to complete the given to it. Compare the seven days' com- peace-offering by burning the selected parts passing a.ronnd of Jericho ( J o.sh. vi. 3, -l:. ). the (ver. 22) on the brazen altar. (See Lev. iii. seven washings in Jordan by Nacunan (2 Kings 3-5.) v. H), the seveu ascents to the top of C=el Ver. 26. -Thou ■halt take the hreut. by the servant of Elijah (1 Kings xviii. -13, Henceforth Ae.ron and his sons were to h&ve 44), etc. the breast of all wave-offerings (Lev. vii. 31- Ver. 36.-Thou ahalt cleanse the altar, 3-l:) ; but on this occasion, as Moses ofliciRted, when thou hast made a.n atonement for it. the breast was to be his. Rather, "thou she.It purifJ the altar by Vers. 27, 28.-A short digression is here making an atonement for it." The sin-offer- mude, from this pllrticular offering, to all ing for the altar was the same bullock which future offerings for consecration. For the future served for Aaron and his sons. Its virtue was both the breast and the right shoulder are to applied to the altar by smearing the bloO<l belong to the priests. The shoulder, more- upon its horns and pouring the remainder at over, is to be "heaved," and only the breast its base (ver. 12). See Lev. viii. 15 :-·' A..n,l "waved;" "heaving" being a single lilting ur, Moses took the blood, and put it upon the of the offering towards heaven, while" waving ' horns of the altar round about with his finger, was a repeated movement in a horizontal and purified the aUar, and poured the blood direction. Wave and heave offerings are at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified iL ·• always ·connected with the portions of the And thou shalt a.noint it. In bis execution priests, or with things dedicated to God's of these directions, Mooes separated the a.no in t- sen·ice. (See eh. xiv. 2; x:uv. 22, 2-l:; ing of the altar from the detlll.Sing, placing it xxxviii. 2-i, 29; Lev. vii. 30--3-l:; Num. even before the anointing of Aaron. He xviii. 11, 19, 2-l:, etc.) anointed it by sprinkling the holy oil upon Vers. 29, 30. - Here we have a second it seven times (Lev. viii. ll). digression, also concerning future consecrations. Ver. 37.--&ven days ahalt thou make an The holy garments made for Aaron were to atonement. All the ceremonial Wll.S to be be preserved after his death, and used at the repeated seven tinles, not only the atonemeut consecration of each successive high priest, for the altar (Lev. viii. 33). An altar most who was to be anointed and oonseorated in holy. Literally, "holiness of hcl.:ucs.-;cs,"' us them, and to wear the1n for seven days from in eh. x.l. 10. Whatever toucheth the :iltar the timo that ho entered upon his office. ahall be holy. R.lth~r. "wust be huly.'' No- Eleiua.r's invesllllent iu thew is mentioned thing that is not holy Uiu.st touch it (Kalisch).  THE BOOK 01<' EXODUS. [en. xux. 1-38.