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The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 26:59
Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt. Rather, "whom she ( אֹתָהּ) bare." The missing subject is usually supplied, as in the A.V and there certainly seems no more difficulty in doing so h…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 26:62
Those that were numbered of them. We have here again a round number (23,000), showing an increase of 1000 since the former census. It is evident that the males of Levi were not counted by anything less than hundreds, an…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 26:65
There was not left a man of them. This had been known to be practically the case before they left the wilderness, properly so called (Deuteronomy 2:14, Deuteronomy 2:15), but it was now ascertained for certain. For the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:1-40
EXPOSITION THE ROUTINE OF SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS (Numbers 28:1-31, Numbers 29:1-40).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:1
The Lord spake unto Moses. It is impossible to say with any assurance whether the law of offerings contained in these two chapters was really given to Moses shortly before his death, or whether it was ever given in this…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:2
My offering, and my bread. Literally, "my korban, my bread." The general term korban is here restricted by the words which follow to the meat offering. "Bread" ( לֶחֶם) is translated "food" in Le Numbers 3:11, Numbers 3…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:3
This is the offering made by fire. The daily offering prescribed at Exodus 29:38-42, and which had presumably never been intermitted since, is specified again here because it formed the foundation of the whole sacrifici…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:7
In the holy place. בַּקֹּדֶשׁ. Septuagint, ἐν τῷ ἀγίῳ. Josephus paraphrases this by περὶ τὸν βωμόν (‘Ant.,' 3.10), and so the Targum of Onkelos; Jonathan and the Targum of Palestine render, "from the vessels of…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:9
And on the sabbath day. The special offering for the sabbath is ordered here for the first time. It does not say when the two lambs were to be slain, but in practice it was immediately after the morning sacrifice of the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:10
The burnt offering of every sabbath. Literally, "the sabbath burnt offering for its sabbath."
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:11
In the beginnings of your months. The new-moon offering also is here enjoined for the first time, the festival itself having only been incidentally mentioned in Numbers 10:10. There can be no doubt that this (unlike the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:15
One kid of the goats. "One hairy one ( שָׂעִיר) of the she goats ( עֵן)." See on Numbers 7:16. This was probably offered first in order, according to the usual analogy of such sacrifices (Exodus 29:10-14). There is no a…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:17
In the fifteenth day of this month is the feast. The fourteenth day of Abib, or Nisan, the day of the passover proper, was not a feast, but a fast ending with the sacred meal of the evening. Only the ordinary daily sacr…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:18
In the first day, i.e; on the fifteenth (see on Exodus 12:16; Le Exodus 23:7).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:19
Ye shall offer a sacrifice. This offering, the same for each day of Mattsoth as for the feast of the new moon, had not been prescribed before, and almost certainly not observed at the one passover kept in the wilderness…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:23
Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, i.e; in addition to, and immediately after, the usual morning sacrifice. Even when it is not expressly stated, the presumption is that all the sacrifices he…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:26
In the day of the first-fruits. The feast of weeks, or day of Pentecost (Le Numbers 23:15-21).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:27
Ye shall offer the burnt offering. The festal sacrifice here prescribed is exactly the same as for the days of Mattsoth and for the feast of the new moon. It is not the same as that prescribed for the same day in Leviti…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 30:1-16
EXPOSITION OF VOWS MADE BY WOMEN (Numbers 30:1-16).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 30:1
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes. The regulations here laid down about vows follow with a certain propriety upon those concerning the ordinary routine of sacrifices, but we cannot conclude with any assurance…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 30:1-16
VOWS UNTO THE LORD This section, although fragmentary, yet reveals to us with great clearness the Divine mind concerning one important portion of practical religion. It lays down directly the principle that vows to God…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 30:2
If a man vow a vow. נֶדֶר, a vow, is commonly said to be distinctively a positive vow, a promise to render something unto the Lord. This, however, cannot be strictly maintained, because the Nazarite vow was healer, and…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 30:3
If a woman vow a vow. The fragmentary nature of this section appears from the fact that, after laying down the general principle of the sacredness of vows, it proceeds to qualify it in three special cases only of vows m…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 30:3-16
THE HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD HONOURED AND CAUTIONED The command contained in this section of the chapter secures a double result. 1. By specifying certain exceptions to the validity of the vow, it makes that validity all t…