Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Numbers 15:3

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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will make: Exo 29:18, Exo 29:25, Exo 29:41; Lev 1:2, Lev 1:3, Lev 1:9, Lev 1:13, Lev 1:17, Lev 10:13 a burnt: Lev. 1:1-17 a sacrifice: Lev 7:16, Lev 22:18-23; Deu 12:11 performing: Heb. separating, Lev 27:2 or in a freewill: Lev 22:21, Lev 22:23; Deu 12:6, Deu 12:17, Deu 16:10 in your: Num 28:16-19, Num 28:27, Num 29:1, Num 29:2, Num 29:8, 13-40; Lev 23:8, Lev 23:12, Lev 23:36; Deut. 16:1-17 a sweet: Gen 8:21; Exo 29:18; Mat 3:17; Eph 5:2; Phi 4:18 the herd: Under the term bakar, are comprehended the ox, heifer, etc; and under tzon, are included sheep and goats. The animals enjoined in the Levitical law are the very same which commanded Abraham to offer ( Gen 15:9). Hence it is evident, that God delivered to the patriarchs an epitome of that law which was afterwards given in detail to Moses, the essence of which consisted in its sacrifices; and these sacrifices were of clean animals, the most perfect, useful, and healthy of all that are brought under the immediate government of man. Gross feeding and ferocious animals were all excluded, as well as all birds of prey. Numbers 15:4

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