Leviticus 17:1-23:44

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:1

‘And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,’ Again it is stressed that we have here God’s word to Moses. read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:1-7

Leviticus 17:1-Judges : . All Slaughter must be Sacrificial, i.e. at the sanctuary ( cf. Deuteronomy 12:2 ff., 2 Kings 23:8, Jeremiah 7:18). All slaughter had originally this sacrificial character, among the Hebrews, as among other pastoral and some agricultural peoples; animals were practically never killed except for sacrifice. Then, any other kind of slaughter easily came to be regarded as impious. To Hindus, there is no greater crime than slaughtering an ox ( cf. Manu, v. 31), and... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:1-16

Leviticus 17-26. The “ Holiness Code” (see Introd. § 2). Leviticus 17. Restrictions on Sacrifice.— The whole chapter recalls P, yet there are differences of phrase ( e.g. “ what man soever,” Leviticus 17:3) and of tone ( e.g. the giving of a reason for a command, Leviticus 17:11) and of contents ( e.g. the explicit prohibition of slaughter except at the central sanctuary). Of the four sections of the chapter, each with its introductory phrase, the second is an extension of the first, the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Leviticus 17:1-16

The Sanctity of the BloodSUGGESTIVE READINGSLeviticus 17:4.—And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle. A captious mind will ask. Why is not sacrifice acceptable to God wherever offered? Surely it is in the spirit of the offerer, rather than in the circumstances of the offering, that piety consists. Wherefore, then, this insistance on mere conditions, and importance attached to the place of sacrifice? But God meets such contention of thought with absolute interdict; He is the authority... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:1-16

Chapter 17Now in chapter seventeen, God laid out that there was only to be one place for sacrifice, and that was the temple. They weren't to just sacrifice anywhere but the tabernacle, and later the temples were to be the only places where sacrifices were to be offered unto the Lord. And that any time you killed any of your animals, you really should bring them. You shouldn't just butcher your animals anywhere in the field. You should bring them to the temple and offer them as unto the Lord, as... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 17:1-16

Leviticus 17:3. Killeth an ox; not for the purpose of eating, but for sacrifice. The object of this precept was first to prevent idolatry, and next to support the religion appointed of God to shadow forth the glory of Christ. But the precept was not absolute. Samuel offered sacrifice in Mizpeh, David at Araunah’s, and Elijah on mount Carmel. Leviticus 17:7. Devils. לשׂעירם literally, beings full of hair, as the goats worshipped in Egypt; figuratively, fawns and satyrs of every kind... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:1-3

THE PLACE OF SLAYING DOMESTIC ANIMALS FOR FOOD, Leviticus 17:1-6. 3. In the camp In addition to the ceremonial, there were doubtless sanitary grounds for the requirement that all slaughter in the camp be in one place, where there was doubtless some way of disposing of the blood without endangering the public health. See Introduction, (6.) The private slaughter of domestic animals was doubtless forbidden as a safeguard against the propensity to idol offerings, which the people brought with... read more