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John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:26

The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it ,.... Thereby signifying that he bore the sin of the person that brought the offering, and made atonement for it; as a type of Christ, who bore the sins of his people in his own body on the tree, and made satisfaction for them; see Leviticus 10:17 . This is to be understood not of that single individual priest only that was the offerer, but of him and his family; for, as Ben Gersom observes, it was impossible for one man to eat all the flesh... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:27

Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy ,.... None but holy persons, such as were devoted to holy services, even the priests and their sons, might touch and eat of the flesh of the sin offering: all that did so were sacred persons; and even what were used in eating it, dishes and knives, were to be put to no other use, not to any common service, or for anything but holy things; which was done to keep up a veneration for the sacrifices, and especially for the great sacrifice... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:28

But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken ,.... That being porous, the liquor in which the sin offering was boiled might soak into it, and the smell of it be retained, and therefore, as such vessels were not very costly, they were ordered to be broken; but where the broken pieces were carried and laid, the Jewish writers are at a loss about; for, that vessels, which had served for holy uses, should be laid in an open public place and exposed, they thought was indecent; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:29

And all the males among the priests shall eat thereof ,.... As of the meat offerings, Leviticus 6:18 and this shows that not the single priest that offered only ate of it, Leviticus 6:26 but his male children, and not those only, but those of other priests then upon duty, or in the court: it is most holy ; See Gill on Leviticus 6:25 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 6:20

In the day when he is anointed - Not only in that day, but from that day forward, for this was to them and their successors a statute for ever. See Leviticus 6:22 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 6:23

For every meat-offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt - Whatever the priest offered was wholly the Lord's, and therefore must be entirely consumed: the sacrifices of the common people were offered to the Lord, but the priests partook of them; and thus they who ministered at the altar were fed by the altar. Had the priests been permitted to live on their own offerings as they did on those of the people, it would have been as if they had offered nothing, as they would have taken again... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 6:25

In the place where the burnt-offering is killed, etc. - The place here referred to was the north side of the altar. See Leviticus 1:11 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 6:26

The priest - shall eat it - From the expostulation of Moses with Aaron, Leviticus 10:17 , we learn that the priest, by eating the sin-offering of the people, was considered as bearing their sin, and typically removing it from them: and besides, this was a part of their maintenance, or what the Scripture calls their inheritance; see Ezekiel 44:27-30 . This was afterwards greatly abused; for improper persons endeavored to get into the priest's office merely that they might get a secular... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 6:27

Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy - The following note of Mr. Ainsworth is not less judicious than it is pious: - "All this rite was peculiar to the sin-offering, (whether it were that which was to be eaten, or that which was to be burnt), above all the other most holy things. As the sin-offering in special sort figured Christ, who was made sin for us, ( 2 Corinthians 5:21 ;), so this ordinance for all that touched the flesh of the sin-offering to be holy, the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 6:28

The earthen vessel - shall be broken - Calmet states that this should be considered as implying the vessels brought by individuals to the court of the temple or tabernacle, and not of the vessels that belonged to the priests for the ordinary service. That the people dressed their sacrifices sometimes in the court of the tabernacle, he gathers from 1 Samuel 2:13 , 1 Samuel 2:14 , to which the reader is desired to refer. In addition to what has been already said on the different subjects... read more

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