Leviticus 17:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 17:3-7

Every domesticated animal that was slain for food was a sort of peace-offering Leviticus 17:5. This law could only be kept as long as the children of Israel dwelt in their camp in the wilderness. The restriction was removed before they settled in the holy land, where their numbers and diffusion over the country would have rendered its strict observance impossible. See Deuteronomy 12:15-16, Deuteronomy 12:20-24.Leviticus 17:4Blood shall be imputed unto that man - i. e. he has incurred guilt in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 17:5

Leviticus 17:5. They offer The Israelites, before the building of the tabernacle, did so, from which they are now restrained. Peace-offerings He does not name these exclusively from others, as appears from the reason of the law, and from Leviticus 17:8-9, but because in these the temptation was more common in regard of their frequency, and more powerful, because part of these belonged to the offerers, and the pretence was more plausible, because their sanctity was of a lower degree than... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:1-16

Sacredness of blood (17:1-16)The blood ritual of the Day of Atonement shows the importance of animal blood in God’s sight. The blood of the animal signified the death of the animal. Therefore, when Israelites wanted to kill animals from their flocks or herds to obtain meat, they were not to slaughter the animals thoughtlessly, but bring them to the tabernacle altar and kill them as peace offering. Thus, besides getting their meat, they acknowledged God in an act of worship. An additional... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 17:5

offer = slay in sacrifice. Hebrew. zabach. App-43 , thus showing the correct supply of the ellipsis in Leviticus 17:3 . door = entrance. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 17:5

5. To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field—"They" is supposed by some commentators to refer to the Egyptians, so that the verse will stand thus: "the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they (the Egyptians) offer in the open field." The law is thought to have been directed against those whose Egyptian habits led them to imitate this idolatrous practice. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 17:1-16

1. Holiness of food ch. 17We move from public regulations in chapter 16 to intimate regulations in chapter 18 with chapter 17 providing the transition. In contrast to the first sixteen chapters, chapter 17 says very little about the role of the priests. The emphasis is rather on mistakes that the ordinary Israelite could make that would affect his or her relationship to God. Food and sacrificial meals were a prominent part of heathen worship. Therefore what the Israelites ate and how they ate... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 17:3-7

God did not permit the Israelites to slaughter sacrificial animals (Leviticus 17:5) anywhere except before the altar of burnt offerings. This may seem to us to have created logistical problems. How could the priests handle all those sacrifices? However most of the Israelites and other ancient Near Eastern people rarely slaughtered animals. They did not eat as much meat as we do."Meat was eaten only occasionally, except perhaps for the rich, who may have had it regularly." [Note: The New Bible... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:1-16

Rule of Sacrifice. Prohibition against eating Blood1-9. The first part of this Law prescribes that all oxen, sheep, and goats, slaughtered for food, must first be presented to Jehovah at the sanctuary. This seems to presuppose a time when the Israelites used but little flesh food, and were not widely scattered, which must have been either during the wanderings in the desert, or immediately after the return from exile, when there was only a small community in the vicinity of Jerusalem. This... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:1-46

(Chs. 17-26) The Law of HolinessThis section of Leviticus occupies a position by itself, being distinguished from the rest of the book both by style and contents. A few only of its main characteristics may be noticed here. (1) Among a large number of phrases almost, if not entirely, peculiar to this part of the Pentateuch is the constantly recurring expression ’I am Jehovah,’ or ’I am Jehovah your God,’ or ’I your God am holy.’ This ’divine I,’ as it has been called, occurs forty-seven times is... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 17:5

(5) To the end that the children of Israel may bring.—The reason why these three kinds of animals, when intended for private food, are to be brought to the precincts of the sanctuary, and are there to be offered first as a peace offering to the Lord, is to prevent the Israelites sacrificing them to the demons in the open fields.Which they offer in the open field.—The first part of this verse is better rendered, In order that the children of Israel may bring in [i.e., within the precincts of the... read more

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