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Leviticus 7:1-7 open_in_new
See Leviticus 5:14 note. In Leviticus 7:2 “sprinkle” should rather be cast Leviticus 1:5. All the details regarding the parts put on the altar are repeated for each kind of sacrifice, because the matter was one of paramount importance.
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Leviticus 7:8 open_in_new
The skin of the burnt offering - It is most likely that the skins of the sin-offering and the trespass-offering also fell to the lot of the officiating priest.
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Leviticus 7:9,10 open_in_new
See the marginal references.
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Leviticus 7:11 open_in_new
See Leviticus 3:1-17. What is here added, relates to the accompanying מנחה mı̂nchāh Leviticus 2:1, the classification of peace-offerings into:
(1) thank-offerings,
(2) vow-offerings and
(3) voluntary-offerings, and the conditions to be observed by the worshipper in eating the flesh.
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Leviticus 7:12 open_in_new
For a thanksgiving - i. e., a thank-offering for mercies received.
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Leviticus 7:13 open_in_new
For his offering - The leavened bread was a distinct offering.
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Leviticus 7:14 open_in_new
Out of the whole oblation - Rather, out of each offering. That is, one loaf or cake out of each kind of meat-offering was to be a heave-offering Leviticus 7:32 for the officiating priest. According to Jewish tradition, there were to be ten cakes of each kind of bread in every thank-offering. The other cakes were returned to the sacrificer.
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Leviticus 7:16 open_in_new
The vow-offering appears to have been a peace-offering vowed upon a certain condition; the voluntary-offering, one offered as the simple tribute of a devout heart rejoicing in peace with God and man offered on no external occasion (compare Leviticus 22:17-25).
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Leviticus 7:18,19 open_in_new
It was proper that the sacrificial meat should not be polluted by any approach to putrefaction. But the exclusion of a mean-spirited economy may further have furnished the ground for the distinction between the thank-offerings and the others. The most liberal distribution of the meat of the offering, particularly among the poor who were invited to partake, would plainly be becoming when the sacrifice was intended especially to express gratitude for mercies received.
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Leviticus 7:21 open_in_new
Unclean beast - that is, carrion of any kind. See Leviticus 11.
Shall be cut off - See the Exodus 31:14 note.
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Leviticus 7:23 open_in_new
This is emphatically addressed to the people. They were not to eat in their own meal what belonged to the altar of Yahweh, nor what was the perquisite of the priests. See Leviticus 7:33-36.
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Leviticus 7:26 open_in_new
No manner of blood - See Leviticus 17:10-15.
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Leviticus 7:30-32 open_in_new
Wave-offering ... heave-offering - The latter appears to be used (like קרבן qorbân, Leviticus 1:2) for offerings in general. Waving (a moving to and fro, repeated several times) or heaving (a lifting up once) the offering was a solemn form of dedicating a thing to the use of the sanctuary.
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Leviticus 7:35 open_in_new
The portion of the anointing ... - Rather, the appointed share of Aaron and of his sons.
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Leviticus 7:37 open_in_new
Of the consecrations - That is, of the sacrifices which were to be offered in the consecration of the priests. See the marginal references.
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Leviticus 7:38 open_in_new
wilderness of Sinai - Compare Exodus 19:1.