Have ye not... ? Compare 2 Chronicles 11:14. Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
nations. Peoples.
seven rams. In Exodus 29:1 and Leviticus 8:2 only "two rams" appointed. But religion and ritual, being for the flesh, always add outward things while they diminish the spiritual.
9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecratea himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.