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<BR><FONT SIZE=+2>CHAP. XXIX.</FONT>
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<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
This chapter appoints the offerings that were to be made by fire unto
the Lord in the three great solemnities of the seventh month.
I. In the feast of trumpets on the first day of that month,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Nu+29:1-6">ver. 1-6</A>.
II. In the day of atonement on the tenth day,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Nu+29:7-11">ver. 7-11</A>.
III. In the feast of tabernacles on the fifteenth day and the seven
days following,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Nu+29:12-38">ver. 12-38</A>.
And then the conclusion of these ordinances,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Nu+29:39,40">ver. 39, 40</A>.</P>
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<TR><TD><FONT SIZE=+1><I>Solemnities of the Seventh Month.</I></FONT></TD>
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<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
<FONT SIZE=+1>1 And in the seventh month, on the first <I>day</I> of the month, ye
shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it
is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
&nbsp; 2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto
the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT>; one young bullock, one ram, <I>and</I> seven lambs of the
first year without blemish:
&nbsp; 3 And their meat offering <I>shall be of</I> flour mingled with oil,
three tenth deals for a bullock, <I>and</I> two tenth deals for a ram,
&nbsp; 4 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
&nbsp; 5 And one kid of the goats <I>for</I> a sin offering, to make an
atonement for you:
&nbsp; 6 Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat
offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering,
and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a
sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT>.
&nbsp; 7 And ye shall have on the tenth <I>day</I> of this seventh month an
holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not
do any work <I>therein:</I>
&nbsp; 8 But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT> <I>for</I> a
sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, <I>and</I> seven lambs of
the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:
&nbsp; 9 And their meat offering <I>shall be of</I> flour mingled with oil,
three tenth deals to a bullock, <I>and</I> two tenth deals to one ram,
&nbsp; 10 A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven
lambs:
&nbsp; 11 One kid of the goats <I>for</I> a sin offering; beside the sin
offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the
meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.
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<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
There were more sacred solemnities in the seventh month than in any
other month of the year, not only because it had been the first month
till the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt (which, falling in the
month Abib, occasioned that to be thenceforth made the <I>beginning of
the months</I> in all ecclesiastical computations), but because still
it continued the first month in the civil reckonings of the jubilees
and years of release, and also because it was the time of vacation
between harvest and seedtime, when they had most leisure to attend the
sanctuary, which intimates that, though God will dispense with
sacrifices in consideration of works of necessity and mercy, yet the
more leisure we have from the pressing occasions of this life the more
time we should spend in the immediate service of God.
1. We have here the appointment of the sacrifices that were to be
offered on the first day of the month, the day of <I>blowing the
trumpets,</I> which was a preparative for the two great solemnities of
holy mourning on the day of atonement and of holy joy in the feast of
tabernacles. The intention of divine institutions is well answered when
one religious service helps to fit us for another and all for heaven.
The <I>blowing of the trumpets</I> was appointed,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Le+23:24">Lev. xxiii. 24</A>.
Here the people are directed what sacrifices to offer on that day, of
which there was not then any mention made. Note, Those who would know
the mind of God in the scripture must compare one part of the scripture
with another, and put those parts together that have reference to the
same thing, for the latter discoveries of divine light explain what was
dark and supply what was defective in the former, <I>that the man of
God may be perfect.</I> The sacrifices then to be offered are
particularly ordered here
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Nu+29:2-6"><I>v.</I> 2-6</A>),
and care taken that these should not supersede the daily oblation and
that of the new moon. It is hereby intimated that we must not seek
occasions to abate our zeal in God's service, nor be glad of an excuse
to omit a good duty, but rather rejoice in an opportunity of
accumulating and doing more than ordinary in religion. If we perform
family-worship, we must not think that this will excuse us from our
secret devotions; nor that on the days we go to church we need not
worship God alone and with our families; but we should <I>always abound
in the work of the Lord.</I>
2. On the <I>day of atonement.</I> Besides all the services of that
day, which we had the institution of,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Le+16:1-34">Lev. xvi.</A>,
and which, one would think, required trouble and charge enough, here
are burnt-offerings ordered to be offered,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Nu+29:8-10"><I>v.</I> 8-10</A>.
For in our faith and repentance, those two great gospel graces which
were signified by that day's performances, we must have an eye to the
glory and honour of God, which was purely intended in the
burnt-offerings; there was likewise to be a <I>kid of the goats for a
sin-offering, besides the great sin-offering of atonement</I>
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Nu+29:11"><I>v.</I> 11</A>),
which intimates that there are so many defects and faults, even in the
exercises and expressions of our repentance, that we have need of an
interest in a sacrifice to expiate the guilt even of that part of our
holy things. Though we must not repent that we have repented, yet we
must repent that we have not repented better. It likewise intimated the
imperfection of the legal sacrifices, and their insufficiency to take
away sin, that on the very day the <I>sin-offering of atonement</I> was
offered, yet there must be another sin-offering. But <I>what the law
could not do, in that it was weak,</I> that Christ has done.</P>
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<FONT SIZE=+1>12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have
an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall
keep a feast unto the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT> seven days:
&nbsp; 13 And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT>; thirteen young bullocks,
two rams, <I>and</I> fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be
without blemish:
&nbsp; 14 And their meat offering <I>shall be of</I> flour mingled with
oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen
bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,
&nbsp; 15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
&nbsp; 16 And one kid of the goats <I>for</I> a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
&nbsp; 17 And on the second day <I>ye shall offer</I> twelve young
bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without
spot:
&nbsp; 18 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, <I>shall be</I> according
to their number, after the manner:
&nbsp; 19 And one kid of the goats <I>for</I> a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and
their drink offerings.
&nbsp; 20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen
lambs of the first year without blemish;
&nbsp; 21 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, <I>shall be</I> according
to their number, after the manner:
&nbsp; 22 And one goat <I>for</I> a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
&nbsp; 23 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, <I>and</I> fourteen
lambs of the first year without blemish:
&nbsp; 24 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, <I>shall be</I> according
to their number, after the manner:
&nbsp; 25 And one kid of the goats <I>for</I> a sin offering; beside the
continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink
offering.
&nbsp; 26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, <I>and</I> fourteen
lambs of the first year without spot:
&nbsp; 27 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, <I>shall be</I> according
to their number, after the manner:
&nbsp; 28 And one goat <I>for</I> a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
&nbsp; 29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, <I>and</I>
fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
&nbsp; 30 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, <I>shall be</I> according
to their number, after the manner:
&nbsp; 31 And one goat <I>for</I> a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
&nbsp; 32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, <I>and</I>
fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
&nbsp; 33 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, <I>shall be</I> according
to their number, after the manner:
&nbsp; 34 And one goat <I>for</I> a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
&nbsp; 35 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall
do no servile work <I>therein:</I>
&nbsp; 36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by
fire, of a sweet savour unto the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT>: one bullock, one ram,
seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
&nbsp; 37 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the
bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, <I>shall be</I> according to
their number, after the manner:
&nbsp; 38 And one goat <I>for</I> a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
&nbsp; 39 These <I>things</I> ye shall do unto the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT> in your set feasts,
beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt
offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink
offerings, and for your peace offerings.
&nbsp; 40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that
the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT> commanded Moses.
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Soon after the day of atonement, that day in which men were to afflict
their souls, followed the feast of tabernacles, in which they were to
rejoice before the Lord; for those that <I>sow in tears</I> shall soon
<I>reap in joy.</I> To the former laws about this feast, which we had,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Le+23:34-44">Lev. xxiii. 34</A>,
&c., here are added directions about the <I>offerings by
fire,</I> which they were to offer unto the Lord during the <I>seven
days of that feast,</I>
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Le+33:36">Lev. xxiii. 36</A>.
Observe here,
1. Their days of rejoicing were to be days of sacrifices. A disposition
to be cheerful does us no harm, nor is any bad symptom, when it is so
far from unfitting us for the duties of God's immediate service that it
encourages and enlarges our hearts in them.
2. All the days of their dwelling in booths they must offer sacrifices.
While we are here in a tabernacle-state, it is our interest as well as
duty constantly to keep up communion with God; nor will the
unsettledness of our outward condition excuse us in our neglect of the
duties of God's worship.
3. The sacrifices for each of the seven days, though differing in
nothing but the number of the bullocks, are severally and particularly
appointed, which yet is no vain repetition; for God would thus teach
them to be very exact in those observances, and to keep an eye of faith
fixed upon the institution in every day's work. It likewise intimates
that the repetition of the same services, if performed with an upright
heart, and with a continued fire of pious and devout affection, is no
weariness to God, and therefore we ought not to snuff at it, or to say,
<I>Behold, what a weariness it is to us!</I>
4. The number of bullocks (which were the most costly part of the
sacrifice) decreased every day. On the first day of the feast they
were to offer thirteen, on the second day but twelve, on the third day
eleven, &c. So that on the seventh they offered seven; and the last
day, though it was the great day of the feast, and celebrated with a
holy convocation, yet they were to offer but one bullock; and, whereas
on all the other days they offered two rams and fourteen lambs, on this
they offered but one ram and seven lambs. Such was the will of the
Law-maker, and that is reason enough for the law. Some suggest that God
herein considered the infirmity of the flesh, which is apt to grudge
the charge and expense of religion; it is therefore ordered to grow
less and less, that they might not complain as if God had <I>made them
to serve with an offering,</I>
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Isa+43:23">Isa. xliii. 23</A>.
Or it is hereby intimated to them that the legal dispensation should
wax old, and vanish away at last; and the multitude of their sacrifices
should end in one great sacrifice, infinitely more worthy than all of
them. It was on the last day of the feast, after all these sacrifices
had been ordered, that our Lord Jesus stood and cried to those who
still thirsted after righteousness (being sensible of the insufficiency
of these sacrifices to justify them) <I>to come unto him and drink,</I>
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Joh+7:37">John vii. 37</A>.
5. The meat-offerings and drink-offerings attended all the sacrifices,
<I>according to their number, after the manner.</I> Be there ever so
much flesh, it is no feast without bread and drink, therefore these
must never be omitted at God's altar, which was his table. We must not
think that doing much in religion will be accepted if we do not do it
well, and after the manner that God has appointed.
6. Every day there must be a sin-offering presented, as we observed in
the other feasts. Our burnt-offerings of praise cannot be accepted of
God unless we have an interest in the great sacrifice of propitiation
which Christ offered when for us he made himself a sin-offering.
7. Even when all these sacrifices were offered, yet the continual
burnt-offering must not be omitted either morning or evening, but each
day this must be offered first in the morning and last in the evening.
No extraordinary services should jostle out our stated devotions.
8. Though all these sacrifices were required to be presented by the
body of the congregation, at the common charge, yet, besides these,
particular persons were to glorify God with their vows and their
free-will offerings,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Nu+29:39"><I>v.</I> 39</A>.
When God commanded that this <I>they must do,</I> he left room for the
generosity of their devotion, a great deal more they <I>might do,</I>
not inventing other worships, but abounding in these, as
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Ch+30:23,24">2 Chron. xxx. 23, 24</A>.
Large directions had been given in Leviticus concerning the offerings
of all sorts that should be brought by particular persons according to
the providences of God concerning them and the graces of God in them.
Though every Israelite had an interest in these common sacrifices, yet
he must not think that these will serve instead of his vows and his
free-will offerings. Thus our ministers' praying with us and for us
will not excuse us from praying for ourselves.</P>
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