6It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
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Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.
They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Here is, I. A general order given concerning the offerings of the Lord, which were to be brought in their season, Num. 28:2. These laws are here given afresh, not because the observance of them was wholly disused during their thirty-eight years’ wandering in the wilderness (we cannot think that they were so long without any public worship, but that at least the daily lamb was offered morning and e…
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