Numbers 28

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MY offering] Many of the ordinances for Gods solemn service had been intermitted many yeers in the wildernesse, which now are repeated; both because the generation of men to whom they were first given, were now dead, and because now, being ready to enter into the land of Canaan, they were upon neerer apprehension of the possession of Gods promise, to be the more carefull to keep his commandments.

my bread] Hee meaneth his sacrifices and oblations, because they served not onely for his honour, but for the sustenance of his servants, whereof bread is the chief, and the Shew-bread the chief bread.

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This is the offering] In the twenty third of Levit. the feasts were prescribed, but not the sacrifices belonging to them; here the sacrifices are particularly appointed.

two lambs] Whereof see Exodus 29:48. &c.

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meat-offerings] Which was an accessory sacrifice to the burnt-offering; see Numbers 15:4.

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in mount Sinai] Untill they came thither (which was 38 yeares after their departure out of Egypt) they offered no such sacrifices; and (as some say) none at all. Of this daily sacrifice, see Leviticus 9:16.

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strong wine] the word Shechar here used, whence cometh the word Sicera, usually taken for strong drinke, as distinguishing from wine, but here it is taken for wine, for no strong drink, but wine was used in Oblations.

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On the sabbath day] In the morning of the Sabbath were offered three Lambs; two for the Sabbath, and one for the daily sacrifice.

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beside the continuall] Sacrifice was to be offered unto God day by day, both morning and evening, vers. 3. but on the Sabbath more was to be done, and nothing of the weekely devotion to be left undone.

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beginning of] The new moones are not numbred among the feasts, Lev. 23. for some reason which is not revealed; yet they are sufficiently authorised by this Text, and by Numbers 10:10. and they were observed for gratefull remembrance of Gods government of the world, as the Sabbath is a remembrance of the worlds creation.

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A severall tenth deale] a tenth of a tenth, as some render the words, and expound them to be an Omer the tenth part of an Ephah, which Ephah is the tenth part of another measure called in Hebrew Cor.

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drink-offering] That is, the offering of wine, which yet was not to be drunke, but powred out upon the sacrifice.

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sinne-offering] That is, for the sinne of the people in generall.

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in the fifteenth day] Which was the day of eating the Lambe; for it was killed on the fourteenth day betweene two evenings: see Exodus 12:6. and with the latter evening began the fifteenth day, when it was to be eaten at night, without reservation of any part of it untill the morning.

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in the morning] The like proportion is to be understood for the evening, though it be not expressed, because it is not to be doubted, but it was to be answerable to the morning; but of the morning there might be doubt, because in the morning divers other sacrifices were to be offered.

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continuall burnt-offering] That is, besides the daily sacrifice.

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of the first-fruits] That is, all the feast of Pentecost, when cakes or loaves made of the first ripe fruits were offered.

after your weekes] Counting seven weekes, or fifty dayes from the Passeover to Whitsuntide, as Leviticus 23:15. which was called the feast of weekes, Exodus 34:22. because it was to be so many weekes after the Passeover.

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yee shall offer] The same sacrifices are appointed for the feast of Pentecost which were offered at the Passeover. See vers. 19.

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without blemish] Whatsoever was offered to God must bee of the best; the beasts without blemish; the flour fine, and not course, sweet and not musty; the drink not sowre, nor the oyle with dreggs: all betokening the purity and perfection of him of whom they were types, to wit, Jesus Christ our propitiatory Sacrifice, and Saviour, and beseeming the excellencie of him to whom they were offered; see Malachi 1:8. 14.