Nehemiah 10:33 - Exposition

For the shew-bread . See Le 24:5-8. Small as the cost of the shew-bread was, consisting, as it did, of no more than twelve cakes of fine flour weekly, it is yet placed first on account of its importance, being the bread of God's presence, the type of the sacramental bread of the new covenant. The continual meat offering is that offering of flour mingled with fine olive oil which God had required to be offered twice a day, at morning and at evening, in conjunction with the two lambs, which constituted the continual burnt offering ( Numbers 28:5 ). Of the sabbaths . i.e. "for the offering of the sabbath days," which consisted of two lambs with appropriate meat and drink offerings, in addition to the offering of every day ( Numbers 28:9 , Numbers 28:10 ). Of the new moons . Two bullocks, one ram, seven lambs, with appropriate meat and drink offerings ( ibid. Nehemiah 10:11-14 ). For the set feasts . The passover, the feast of Pentecost, the feast of trumpets, and the feast of tabernacles. The offerings required at each are given with great exactness in Numbers 28:1-31 , and Numbers 29:1-40 . The holy things . "Wave - offerings" and "peace-offerings" (Le Numbers 23:10 , Numbers 23:17 , Numbers 23:19 ) are probably intended. They were "holy to the Lord for the priest" ( ibid. Numbers 29:20 ). The sin offerings are those commanded in Numbers 28:15 , Numbers 28:22 , Numbers 28:30 ; Numbers 29:5 , Numbers 29:11 , Numbers 29:16 , Numbers 29:19 , etc . And for all the work of the house . The internal "work" of cleansing and keeping in proper order the apparatus of worship is probably intended, not external repairs.