Leviticus 6:17-23 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 6:14-23

The meat-offering was either that which was offered by the people or that by the priests at their consecration. Now, I. As to the common meat-offering, 1. Only a handful of it was to be burnt upon the altar; all the rest was allowed to the priests for their food. The law of the burnt-offerings was such as imposed upon the priests a great deal of care and work, but allowed them little profit; for the flesh was wholly burnt, and the priests had nothing but the skin. But to make them amends the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:17

It shall not be baked with leaven ,.... Which, as it was a type of Christ, may denote his sincerity both in doctrine, life, and conversation; and as it may respect the offerer, may signify his uprightness and integrity, and his being devoid of hypocrisy and insincerity: I have given it unto thee for their portion of my offerings made by fire ; this was part of the provision made for the maintenance of the priests, as it was but just that they that ministered at the altar should live of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:18

All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it ,.... And they only, for none but they might eat in the holy place, and therefore these holy things that were to be eaten there, were only eaten by them; what might be eaten by the priests in their own houses, their wives and daughters ate of, but in the holy place only their males, and a male was one that was thirteen years of age: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations, concerning the offerings of the Lord made by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:19

And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... At the same time the above laws were delivered: saying ; as follows. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:20

This is the offering of Aaron and his sons ,.... That is, of such of them as succeeded him in the high priesthood, as appears from Leviticus 6:22 so Aben Ezra, of him, or of one of his sons in his room; though some think the common priests offered the following oblation at the time of their initiation into their office, though they were not anointed as the high priest was, nor obliged as he to continue the offering daily: which they shall offer unto the Lord in the day when he is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:21

In a pan it shall be made with oil ,.... With oil olive, as the Targum of Jonathan; the pan in which it was made was a vessel that had no covering, nor hollow in the middle, nor any lip or edge, but was a plane, and extended, and the dough made on it was hard and stiff, that it might not run off F18 Misn. Menachot, c. 5. sect. 8. & Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. Maimon. Maasch Hakorbanot, c. 13. sect. 7. . In the temple was a chamber of those that made the cakes F19 Misn.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:22

And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it ,.... The successor of the high priest: it is a statute for ever unto the Lord ; which he by an everlasting statute appointed to be offered to him by every high priest, until the Messiah should come: it shall be wholly burnt ; of a common meat offering only a handful was burnt, and the rest was the priest's; see Leviticus 6:15 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:23

For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt ,.... Wherefore the priest that offered this for the high priest got nothing by it: he served him gratis: it shall not be eaten ; neither by himself, nor any other priest. The priests by eating the offerings of the people bore their iniquities, and made atonement for them, Leviticus 10:17 but the priests might not eat their own sacrifices, to show that they could not bear their own sins, and make atonement for them; and this... 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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 6:14-23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 6:23

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

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

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