Leviticus 17:1-23:44

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Leviticus 17:1-16

2. The Testimony Concerning the Blood CHAPTER 17 1. Concerning slain animals (Leviticus 17:1-9 ) 2. Concerning the eating of blood (Leviticus 17:10-16 ) This chapter needs little comment. Everything in this chapter speaks of the sanctity of the blood, what great value God, to whom life belongs, places upon the blood and with what jealous care He watches over it. The center of all is verse 11: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:1-16

GOD'S RIGHTS WHEN AN ANIMAL WAS KILLED (vv. 1-16) This chapter is an appendix to chapter 16, though it does not deal with the sin offering. Rather, the Lord now strongly insists that any Israelite who would slaughter an ox or a lamb or a goat must bring it to the door of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord. Verse 5 adds that these were to be offered as peace offerings to the Lord. The offerer received most of the peace offering as food, but first the fat, the two... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:1-16

ABOMINATIONS UNTO THE LORD The underlying thought of this section is in the words of Leviticus 18:1-5 . Israel is redeemed and separated unto God, therefore, she is to live consistently with that fact in all her ways. She is not to do after the heathen peoples round about her. THE QUESTION OF EATING (Leviticus 17:0 ) It looks as though the opening injunction of this chapter touched once more upon the ceremonial and recurred to a matter considered under the offerings. But in that case the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Leviticus 17:1

CONTENTS The substance of this chapter, respects the appointed method of making the offerings. The blood of all slain beasts, must be presented at the door of the tabernacle. The blood is not to be eaten, neither must the flesh of what dieth alone, or is torn by beasts, be taken for food. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Leviticus 17:1-6

It is delightful, even in our most common concerns, to trace somewhat of the ever-blessed JESUS. And it is delightful to the true believer in CHRIST, to trace in the church's history in the wilderness, that the faithful in those days were taught of GOD the HOLY GHOST, to be doing somewhat in all their transactions, that had either a near or remote view to him. As the children of Israel were enjoined to bring their slaughtered animals unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:1-9

1-9 All the cattle killed by the Israelites, while in the wilderness, were to be presented before the door of the tabernacle, and the flesh to be returned to the offerer, to be eaten as a peace-offering, according to the law. When they entered Canaan, this only continued in respect of sacrifices. The spiritual sacrifices we are now to offer, are not confined to any one place. We have now no temple or altar that sanctifies the gift; nor does the gospel unity rest only in one place, but in one... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Leviticus 17:1-9

Animals to be Slain by Priests v. 1. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, v. 2. Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them: This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, saying, v. 3. What man soever there be of the house of Israel that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, the most common sacrificial animals, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp, even if the underlying thought be merely that of slaughtering the animal for food, v.... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Leviticus 17:1-16

BOOK IIOF CONTINUANCE IN COMMUNION WITH GODLeviticus 17-26_______________________________“The keeping holy of the consecrated relations of the life of Israel, of the whole round of sacrifice, and of the round of typical holiness, by the putting aside of the sins of obduracy (Cherem). Chaps. 17–27”—Lange.PART I. HOLINESS ON THE PART OF THE PEOPLELeviticus 17-20______________FIRST SECTION“The keeping holy of all animal slaughter as the basis of all sacrifice, of the blood as the soul of all... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Leviticus 17:1-16

“The Life of the Flesh is in the Blood” Leviticus 17:1-16 Every animal that was slain for food was regarded as a kind of peace-offering, and was therefore slain at the door of the Tabernacle. This law, though it expressed a great principle, was only provisional. It was kept as long as Israel dwelled in the Wilderness, but repealed when they entered the Land of Promise, where their numbers and diffusion would have rendered its strict observance impossible. See Deuteronomy 12:15-24 . Very... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 17:1-16

Very definite instructions were given to the priests concerning sacrifices. These provided, first, that all sacrifices must be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting. This provision at once recognized the unification of the nation around the fact of the divine presence It reminded the people that worship is possible only along divinely ordained lines and in no isolated independence; and so by making offering of sacrifice there, the possibility of offering worship to strange gods was... read more

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