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shall burn the memorial--rather, "for a memorial"; that is, a part of it.
Ye shall eat no manner of fat--(See on Le 3:17).
brought the ram, &c.--as a token of their entire dedication to the service of God.
They were earnest in asking about that which their Master never had directed or encouraged them to seek. Our Lord knew that his ascension and the teaching of the Holy Spirit would soon end these...
the fat--that about the kidneys especially, which is called "suet."
abominable unclean thing--Some copies of the Bible read, "any reptile."
if his offering be a goat--Whether this or any of the other two animals were chosen, the same general directions were to be followed in the ceremony of offering.
cut off from his people--that is, excluded from the privileges of an Israelite--lie under a sentence of excommunication.
he shall dwell alone; without the camp--in a lazaretto by himself, or associated with other lepers (2Ki 7:3, 8).
if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more--that is, with far more severe and protracted calamities.
I will scatter you among the heathen, &c.--as was done when the elite of the nation were removed into Assyria and placed in various parts of the kingdom.
brought the bullock for the sin offering, &c.--a timely expression of their sense of unworthiness--a public and solemn confession of their personal sins and a transference of their guilt to the...
what saddle...he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean--(See on Ge 31:34).
Aaron shall order it from the evening unto the morning--The daily presence of the priests was necessary to superintend the cleaning and trimming.
I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright--a metaphorical expression to denote their emancipation from Egyptian slavery.
upon the pure candlestick--so called because of pure gold. This was symbolical of the light which ministers are to diffuse through the Church.
if any of the flesh of the sacrifice...be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither...imputed--The sacrifice will not be acceptable to God nor profitable to him that offers...
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary--Very frequently, in this Book of the Law, the Sabbath and the sanctuary are mentioned as antidotes to idolatry.
ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath--that is, after the first day of the passover week, which was observed as a Sabbath.
ye shall eat old store--Their stock of old corn would be still unexhausted and large when the next harvest brought a new supply.