Leviticus 8:20

8:14-36 In these types we see our great High Priest, even Christ Jesus, solemnly appointed, anointed, and invested with his sacred office, by his own blood, and the influences of his Holy Spirit. He sanctifies the ordinances of religion, to the benefit of his people and the honour of God the Father; who for his sake accepts our worship, though it is polluted with sin. We may also rejoice, that he is a merciful and faithful High Priest, full of compassion to the feeble-minded and tempest-tossed soul. All true Christians are consecrated to be spiritual priests. We should seriously ask ourselves, whether in our daily walk we study to maintain this character? and abound in spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Christ? If so, still there is no cause for boasting. Let us not despise our fellow-sinners; but remembering what we have done, and how we are saved, let us seek and pray for their salvation.

Atonement having been made, Aaron and his sons were now permitted, by the laying on of their hands, to make themselves one with the victim, which was to be sent up to Yahweh as "a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the Lord." All was done strictly according to the ritual Leviticus 1:3-9 , except that Moses performed the duties of the priest.

The sin-offering, through which the priests and the altar had been expiated, and every disturbance of the fellowship existing between the holy God and His servants at the altar, in consequence of the sin of those who were to be consecrated, had been taken away, was followed by a burnt-offering, consisting of a ram, which was offered according to the ordinary ritual of the burnt-offering ( Leviticus 1:3-9 ), and served to set forth the priests, who had appointed it as their substitute through the laying on of hands, as a living, holy, and well-pleasing sacrifice to the Lord, and to sanctify them to the Lord with all the faculties of both body and soul.

14 . holy ] cf. Exodus 16:23 (P), Exodus 20:8 (E), Isaiah 58:13 , Ezekiel 20:20 , &c. profaneth ] To ‘profane’ is characteristic—like its opposite, to ‘sanctify’—of H, Leviticus 18:21 ; Leviticus 19:8 ; Leviticus 19:12 ; Leviticus 19:29 ; Leviticus 20:3 ; Leviticus 21:4 ; Leviticus 21:6 ; Leviticus 21:9 (twice), Leviticus 21:12 ; Leviticus 21:15 ; Leviticus 21:23 , Leviticus 22:2 ; Leviticus 22:9 ; Leviticus 22:15 ; Leviticus 22:32 , and Ezek. (about 30 times,—6 times, as here, of the sabbath, viz. Ezekiel 20:13 ; Ezekiel 20:16 ; Ezekiel 20:21 ; Ezekiel 20:24 , Ezekiel 22:8 , Ezekiel 23:38 : so Isaiah 56:2 , Nehemiah 13:18 ). In P only once ( Numbers 18:32 ). shall surely be put to death ] cf., in the Book of the Covenant, Exodus 21:12 ; Exodus 21:14-17 , Exodus 22:19 ; and in H, for various moral and religious offences, Leviticus 20:2 ; Leviticus 20:9-13 ; Leviticus 20:15-16 ; Leviticus 20:27 ; Leviticus 24:16-17 (for murder). In Numbers 15:32-36 (P) this penalty for sabbath-breaking is said to have been inflicted. that soul , &c.] See on Exodus 12:15 , and Exodus 30:33 .

[Reformed Biblical] is, Those idols and idolatries will defile you and make you worse, but I only and my service will sanctify you and make you better. Leviticus 20:9 For, or, surely, as that particle, chi, is oft used, as Job_8:6 20:20. So there needs no dispute about the connexion, or what this is a reason of. Curseth; which is not meant of every perverse expression, but of bitter reproaches or imprecations. Or his mother; Heb. and put for or, as hath been noted before. ## His blood shall be upon him; he is guilty of his own death; he deserves to die for so unnatural a crime. Leviticus 20:10 Leviticus 20:11 Leviticus 20:12 By perverting the order which God hath appointed, and mixing the blood which God would have separated, and making the same offspring both his own immediate child and his grandchild, ## they have wrought confusion. Leviticus 20:13 Except the one party was forced by the other. See Deu_22:25. Leviticus 20:14 ## It is wickedness, i.e. abominable and extraordinary wickedness, as the singularity of the punishment showeth. ## Both he and they; either, or both or all of them, if they consented to it. Leviticus 20:15 Partly, for the prevention of monstrous births; partly, to blot out the memory of so loathsome a crime; and partly, th at by so severe a punishment of that creature which was only a passive instrument to man’s sin,

[Reformed Biblical] reputed their genuine children, but bastards, and therefore excluded from the congregation of the Lord, Deu_23:2. Leviticus 20:21 Except in the case allowed by God, Deu_25:5. ## An unclean thing; an abominable thing, like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman, which is oft expressed by this word: Heb. a separation or removing , i.e. a thing deserving separation or exclusion from society with others; or a thing to be removed out of sight or out of the world. Leviticus 20:22 Leviticus 20:23 Leviticus 20:24 By my special grace and favour vouchsafed to you above all people, in glorious and miraculous works wrought for you and among you, and in ordinances and other singular privileges and blessings imparted to you, all which calls for your special love and service. Leviticus 20:25 i.e. As things which by my sentence I have made unclean, and which you must avoid as such. Leviticus 20:26 Leviticus 20:27 ## Leviticus 21:1 LEVITICUS CHAPTER 21 Priests must not defile themselves, in mourning over the dead: cases excepted, Lev_21:1-6. Nor marry with a whore, profane, or divorced woman, Lev_21:7,8. His daughter, if a whore, to be burnt with fire, Lev_21:9. The high priest must in no case defile himself with the dead, Lev_21:10-12: must marry a virgin of his people, Lev_21:13-15. Persons having bodily defects allowed to eat of the holy things, but not to serve in the tabernacle, or offer to God, Lev_21:16-24.