Leviticus 9:15-21 - Exposition

The people's sin offering, burnt off, ring, meat offering, and peace offerings follow. The meat offering is said to have been burnt upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning . It is probable that, on this occasion, the people's burnt offering, which consisted of a calf and a lamb, took the place of the ordinary morning sacrifice of a lamb ( Exodus 29:38 ). Aaron is said to have offered the burnt offering according to the manner , or, as it is given in the margin, ordinance, that is, he burnt the flesh on the altar ( Leviticus 1:7-9 ); he also burnt the handful of the meat offering, and he burnt the fat of the peace offering, upon the altar . He had previously burnt the fat of his own sin offering, and the flesh of his burnt offering. Fire, therefore, was present upon the altar, and was used by Aaron, as by Moses, for sacrificial purposes before the fire came out from the Lord as described in Leviticus 9:24 .