The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 29:38-42

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EXPOSITION

THE DAILY SACRIFICE. The consecration of the altar, which is made a part of the consecration of the priests, is to be followed immediately by the establishment of the daily sacrifice. Two lambs are to be offered day by day to the Lord, one in the morning and the other in the evening, as "a continual burnt-offering" (Exodus 29:42), in acknowledgment that the life of the people belonged to Jehovah (Cook), aria that they were bound to offer perpetually "themselves, their souls and bodies, to be a reasonable holy, and lively sacrifice" to him. The burnt-offerings were to be accompanied by appropriate "meat and drink-offerings"—i.e; by a certain quantity of flour mingled with olive oil for the one, and a certain quantity of wine for the other—indications of the debt of gratitude which the nation owed to God for his continual benefits

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