And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things have befallen me: and [if] I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?
Ver. 19. Should it have been accepted.] God loves a cheerful server. Deuteronomy 12:7 ; Deu 26:14 Mourners' bread is polluted bread, Hos 9:4 and those unkind husbands are blamed for causing their wives, when they should have been cheerful in God's service, to cover the Lord's altar with tears, with weeping and with crying out, so that he regarded not the offering any more. Mal 2:13 This Aaron knew, and allegeth for himself.