EXPOSITION. The following section (eh. vi. 8-vii. SS) ing on the altar symbolized the unceasing is a supplement to eh. i-vi. 7,conta.ining the worship of God by Israel, and the gracious regulations addressed to the priests relating acceptance of Israel by God. The ever- to the ri tue.l of the several se.cri.fices.Vera. 8- burning sacrifice was the token of the people being in communion with God. 13 of eh. vi. contain the further ritual of the Vere. 14-18.-The further ritne.l of the burnt sacrifice; vers. 14-23, that of the meat meat offering (see note on eh. ii. 1). The offering; vers. 24-30, that of the sin offer- greater po.rt of it ie to be given to the priests, ings; vers. 1-6 of eh. vii, that of the tres- and they and the me.lee of their families are pass offering; vers. 11-36, that of the peace to eat it without adding leaven to it. With offering; vers. 7-10 declare the portion of unleavened bread shall it be eaten (ver. 16) should rather be rendered, Unlea-r,ened shall the priests in all the offerings; vers. 37, 38 it be eaten. Not only is it most holy itself, conclude the section. but every one (or rather nerything) that Vers. 8-13.-{See note on eh. i. 3.) The touoheth the offerings shall be holy. The further ritual of the burnt offering is ex- touch of the offering conveys the character hibited in the particular instance of the of holiness to the thing touched, which must, lamb sacrificed every evening (Exod. xxix. therefore, itsrlf be treated as holy. 38). In other cases the rituo.l was to be the Vere. 19-23.-The meat offering of the same. Instead of It is the burnt offering, high priest at his institution. Thie was to beoallll0 of the burning upon the altar all be not of uncooked tlonr, but in the form of night unto the morning, the reading should a pancake, me.de out of one-tenth of an be, It, the burnt offering (viz. the evening ephah of tlour. It, of course, accompanied se.cri.fice), shall burn upon the hearth upon the burnt offering appointed for the occasion. the aUar all night unto the morning. The He.If of it wo.s burnt in the morning, that ie, priest is to wear his priestly dress already at the morning ee.ori.fice, and h&lf thereof at appointed (Exod. xxviii. 40)-whicb was a night, that is, the other he.If at the evening white linen garment, covering the whole sacrifice, none being reserved for consump- person like e. close-fitting English surplice, tion by the priests. This meat offering, fastened by a sash-while be is actually having first been offered at the consecration officiating at the altar; e.nd thus vested, he of Aaron, was afterwards to be offered at the is to remove from the altar the ashes which consecration of ea.oh succeeding high priest, the fire hath coD11Umed with the burnt offer- the expression Aaron and his sons meaning ing, or rather, e.11 it would be better trans- here the successive high priests. The state- lated, the ashes to wMch the fire hath reduced ment that the offering is to be perpetual, has the burnt offering, and put them beside the Jed to the belief that it was made every day altar, that iB, on the ash-heap to the east by the high priest, from the time of hie oon- of the altar. On leaving the court of the secre.tion onwards, and there is thought to be tabernacle, he is to change bis dress, and on allusion to this sacrifice in Ecclus. xiv. to co.rry the ashes of the sacrifice without 14; but the more probable opinion is that it the camp unto a clean place. Tbo priest was only made on the day of consecration, is also instructed to lay fresh wood on the that is, on the first day that he was qualifio,I altar fire every morning, in preparation for to e.ot as high priest. the morning sacrifice of the, lamb (Exod.xxix. Vere. 24-30.-Further ritual of the sin 38 ). The fat of the poaoe offerings, that iB, offering (see note on eh. iv. 2). The tlesh of the parts of the peace offerings that were the sin offerings iB to be eaten by the priests burIJt on the altar, were le.id on the burnt and the males of their families in the holy offering. The altar fire was never to go out, place, tbo.t is, within the precincts of tha because the daily BBCrifices constantly burn- sanctuary, with the exception of the ain lltl. \ti, 8-30.J THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS.
offerings of the high priest and of the con- Dy the command that no drop of the blood gregation, whereof . , . the blood is brought which might have been accitlentally spilt Into the tBbeJ'11BOle of the congregation to upon the offerer's drees should be taken out reoonoile withal in the holy p!BOO, which of the tabernacle court. 2. By the order to wee to be burnt in the fire without the camp. break or scour the pot in which it was The holiness of the offering is manifested: 1. boiled for the priests' eatiDg.