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John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 3:2
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, etc.] “His right hand with strength”, the Targum of Jonathan says; perhaps both his hands were imposed; the Septuagint and Arabic versions read it in the plural number, “hands”; this same rite was used in the sacrifice of burnt offering, (see Gill on “<030104>Leviticus 1:4”); which might be done in any place in the court where it was slain, only with this difference: according to Maimonides f75, there was no confession of sin made at laying on of hands upon the peace offerings, but words of praise were spoken: and kill it at the door of the congregation; it seems as if it was not the priest, but the owner that brought it, and laid his hands on it, that killed it; and so the last mentioned writer says, that slaying the peace offering by a stranger was right; and as he and others f76 say, it might be slain in any part of the court; it was not obliged to be slain in the north part of it, as the burnt offering was, (<030111>Leviticus 1:11) and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about; in like manner as the blood of the burnt offering was, and it was done with two sprinklings, which were as four f77; (see Gill on “<030105>Leviticus 1:5”) this was typical of the blood of Christ, called “the blood of sprinkling”.
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