Leviticus 17:6-11

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 17:1-9

This statute obliged all the people of Israel to bring all their sacrifices to God's altar, to be offered there. And as to this matter we must consider, I. How it stood before. 1. It was allowed to all people to build altars, and offer sacrifices to God, where they pleased. Wherever Abraham had a tent he built an altar, and every master of a family was a priest to his own family, as Job 1:5. 2. This liberty had been an occasion of idolatry. When every man was his own priest, and had an altar... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 17:10-16

We have here, I. A repetition and confirmation of the law against eating blood. We have met with this prohibition twice before in the levitical law (Lev. 3:17; 7:26), besides the place it had in the precepts of Noah, Gen. 9:4. But here, 1. The prohibition is repeated again and again, and reference had to the former laws to this purport (Lev. 17:12): I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood; and again (Lev. 17:14), You shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh. A great... read more

John Gill

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

And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord ,.... The altar of burnt: offering, Leviticus 1:5 , at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation ; near to which it stood, see Leviticus 1:5 , and burn the fat for a sweet savour to the Lord ; the fat that covered the inwards, the kidneys, the flanks and caul of the liver; see Leviticus 3:3 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:7

And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils ,.... As it seems they had done, which was monstrously shocking, and especially by a people that had the knowledge of the true God. Such shocking idolatry has been committed, and still is among the Indians, both East and West: when Columbus discovered Hispaniola, and entered it, he found the inhabitants worshippers of images they called Zemes, which were in the likeness of painted devils, which they took to be the mediators and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:8

And thou shalt say unto them ,.... To Aaron and his sons, and to the children of Israel, as in Leviticus 17:2 , whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel : belonging to that nation, and to any of its tribes and families, of whatever age; as a young man or an old man, as the Targum of Jonathan; or of whatsoever rank, class, and condition in life: or of the strangers which sojourn among you ; that is, of the proselytes among them; not the proselytes of the gate, who were not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:9

And bringeth it not to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the Lord ,.... In a public manner, by one of the priests of the Lord; by which it might appear that he did not take upon him to be a priest himself, nor to offer it to an idol: even that man shall be cut off from his people ; from being one of them, and having communion with them, and sharing in their privileges; or by death, either by the hand of the civil magistrate, or rather by the hand of God; so... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:10

And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel ,.... That is by birth an Israelite, of every age, sex, or condition, as before: or of the strangers that sojourn among you ; proselytes of righteousness, for the following law was only obligatory on such, and upon Israelites, as appears from its being lawful to give or sell that which dies of itself to a stranger, that is, to a proselyte of the gate, or to an Heathen, Deuteronomy 14:21 , that eateth any manner of blood ; that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:11

For the life of the flesh is in the blood ,.... The animal life or soul, the life and soul of every creature, and even the animal life and soul of man; agreeably to which our famous Dr. Harvey, who found out the circulation of the blood, says of it, that it is the principal part which first appears in generation; is the genital part, the fountain of life the first that lives, and the last that dies; the primary seat of the soul or life, from whence motion and pulsation take their rise; in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:7

They shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils - They shall not sacrifice לשעירים lasseirim , to the hairy ones, to goats. The famous heathen god, Pan, was represented as having the posteriors, horns, and ears of a goat; and the Mendesians, a people of Egypt, had a deity which they worshipped under this form. Herodotus says that all goats were worshipped in Egypt, but the he-goat particularly. It appears also that the different ape and monkey species were objects of superstitious... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:11

For the life of the flesh is in the blood - This sentence, which contains a most important truth, had existed in the Mosaic writings for 3600 years before the attention of any philosopher was drawn to the subject. This is the more surprising, as the nations in which philosophy flourished were those which especially enjoyed the Divine oracles in their respective languages. That the blood actually possesses a living principle, and that the life of the whole body is derived from it, is a... read more

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