Leviticus 2:1
grain offering ...... offering <07133 04503> [meat offering.]
{Minchah,} from the Arabic {manacha,} to give, especially as a reciprocal gift, a gift, oblation, or eucharistical or gratitude offering, for the bounties of providence displayed in the fruits of the earth. It is termed a meat offering by our translators, because the term meat in their time was the general name for food.
choice wheat flour <05560> [fine flour.]
pour olive oil <08081 03332> [pour oil.]
frankincense <03828> [frankincense.]
Leviticus 16:1--17:16
enter .... time <0935 06256> [he come not.]
die ..... appear <04191 07200> [that he die not.]
cloud <06051> [in the cloud.]
atonement plate ...................... atonement plate <03727> [the mercy seat.]
Aaron <0175> [Aaron.]
young <01121> [a young.]
ram .... burnt offering <05930 0352> [a ram for a burnt-offering.]
holy ... tunic ............................. holy <03801 06944> [holy line coat. Heb. of holiness. Greek. a sanctified linen coat.]
This and the other vestures were peculiar for this day, and for the services of this day; that is, for making atonement: the other service, which was ordinary, he performed this day in his other priestly garments. The eight ornaments usually worn by the high priest are enumerated in Exodus xxviii ver.4, etc., and the four that were for this day are here expressed, and are called the white garments, while the others were designated the golden garments, because some were made with gold thread woven in them. These four were made of six double twisted threads, and of flax only.
bathe <07364> [therefore.]
on behalf <01157> [which.]
[an atonement, for himself.]
lots ....... lot ....... lot <01486 05414> [cast lots.]
Azazel <05799> [scape goat. Heb. Azazel, that is, the goat-gone-away.]
The Hebrew [ ] has been supposed by some to be the name of a place, either a mountain or cliff, to which the goat was led. But no place of that name has ever been pointed out, except a mountain near Sinai, which was too distant for the goat to be conducted there from Jerusalem. Other learned men think it was the name of the devil, who was worshipped by the heathen in the form of a goat. But Bp. Patrick justly objects to this opinion; for it is difficult to conceive, that when the other goat was offered to God, this should be sent among demons. The more probable opinion seems to be, that it was name given to the goat itself, on account of his being let go; from {aiz,} a goat, and {azal,} to depart. So LXX. [\~apopompaov\~,] and Vulgate {emissarius,} sent away; Aquila and Symmachus [\~tragov apercomenov\~,] or [\~apolelumenov\~:] the goat going away, or dismissed.
Lord <03068> [upon which.]
designated <05927> [fell. Heb. went up.]
Azazel .................... Azazel <05799> [the scape-goat.]
atonement <03722> [to make.]
sending <07971> [let him.]
altar <04196> [from off.]
fragrant incense <07004 05561> [sweet incense.]
He .... put <05414> [And he.]
cloud <06051> [the cloud.]
slaughter <07819> [Then shall.]
bring <0935> [bring.]
atonement <03722> [an atonement.]
resides <07931> [remaineth. Heb. dwelleth.]
Nobody <0120> [no man.]
atonement .............. atonement <03722> [and have made.]
purifying <03722> [reconciling.]
live goat <08163 02416> [live goat.]
lay <05564> [lay.]
confess ...... iniquities <03034 05771> [confess over.]
put <05414> [putting.]
man ... ready <0376 06261> [a fit man. Heb. a man of opportunity.]
The man that took the scape-goat into the wilderness, and they that burned the sin offering, were to be looked upon as ceremonially unclean, and must not come into the camp till they had washed their clothes and bathed their flesh in water, which signified the defiling nature of sin; even the sacrifice which was made sin, was defiling: also the imperfection of the legal sacrifices, they were so far from taking away sin, that they left some stain even upon those that touched them.
bear ...... iniquities <05375 05771> [bear upon.]
inaccessible <01509> [not inhabited. Heb. of separation.]
bathe <07364> [wash.]
clothes <0899> [his garments.]
burnt offering ..... burnt offering <05930> [his burnt.]
atonement <03722> [and make.]
sent <07971> [he that.]
wash <03526> [wash.]
bull <06499> [bullock.]
outside <02351> [without.]
seventh <07637> [in the seventh.]
humble <06031> [shall afflict.]
priest ...... ordained <03548 03547> [the priest.]
<04390> [consecrate. Heb. fill his hand.]
ordained <03547> [to minister.]
put on ... linen <0906 03847> [put on the linen.]
perpetual <05769> [an everlasting.]
once ... year <0259 08141> [once a year.]
house <01004> [be of.]
slaughters ... ox <07819 07794> [that killeth an.]
brought <0935> [bringeth.]
shed blood <01818 02803> [blood shall.]
shed <08210> [he hath.]
cut off <03772> [be cut off.]
field <06440> [in the open.]
sacrificing .................... sacrifice ..... peace offering <02076 08002> [and offer them.]
splash <02236> [sprinkle.]
offer <06999> [burn.]
goat <08163> [unto devils.]
goat <08163> [devils.]
{Seirim,} properly signifies hairy or hairy ones; and hence is used not only for he-goats, but also for some fabulous beings or sylvan gods, to whom was ascribed the form of goats. Maimonides says that the Zabian idolaters worshipped demons under the form of goats; and that this custom being spread among other nations, gave occasion to this precept. He-goats, however, are probably intended here, which were objects of divine honour among the Egyptians under the name of honour among the Egyptians under the name of Mendes. Herodotus says that all goats were worshipped in Egypt; but particularly he-goats. From these seem to have sprung Pan, Silenus, and the innumerable herd of those imaginary beings, fauns, satyrs, dryads, etc., all woodland gods, and held in veneration by the Greeks and Romans.
prostitutes <02181> [gone a whoring.]
Though this phrase is equivalent, in Scripture, to that of committing idolatry, yet it is to be taken sometimes in a literal sense. Baalpeor and Ashtaroth were worshipped with obscene rite; and public prostitution formed a great part of the worship among the Egyptians, Moabites, Canaanites, Greeks, and Romans.
offers <05927> [that offereth.]
eats ............. eats <0398> [that eateth.]
I will set <05414> [I will.]
life .......................... lives ........... life <05315> [the life.]
This sentence, which contains a most important truth, had existed in the Mosaic writings for more than 3,000 years, before the attention of any philosopher was drawn to the subject. That the blood actually possesses a living principle, and that the life of the whole body is derived from it, is a doctrine of revelation, and a doctrine which the experiments of the most accurate anatomists have served strongly to confirm. The proper circulation of this important fluid through the whole human system was first taught by Solomon in figurative language, (Ec 12:6,) and discovered, as it is called, and demonstrated by Dr. Harvey in 1628; though some Italian philosophers had the same notion a little before. This accurate anatomist was the first who fully revived the Mosaic notion of the vitality of the blood; which was afterwards adopted by the justly celebrated Dr. John Hunter, professor of anatomy, and established by him, by a great variety of strong reasoning and accurate experiments.
assigned <05414> [I have.]
resident foreigner <01616> [neither.]
hunts <06679> [which hunteth.]
hunts <06679> [hunteth. Heb. hunteth any hunting. pour out.]
person <05315> [every soul.]
died of natural causes ..... torn <05038 02966> [that which died of itself. Heb. a carcase. both wash.]
