Matthew Henry on Leviticus 22:17–end
Here are four laws concerning sacrifices: -
I. Whatever was offered in sacrifice to God should be without blemish, otherwise it should not be accepted. This had often been mentioned in the particular institutions of the several sorts of offerings. Now here they are told what was to be accounted a blemish which rendered a beast unfit for sacrifice: if it was blind, or lame, had a wen, or the mange (Lev 22:22), - if it was bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut (Lev 22:24), that is, as the Jewish writers understand it, if it was, in any of these ways, castrated, if bulls and rams were made into oxen and weathers, they might not be offered. Moreover a difference is made between what was brough…
Read the whole note in the consoleJamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 22:27
it shall be seven days under the dam--Animals were not considered perfect nor good for food till the eighth day. As sacrifices are called the bread or food of God (Lev 22:25), to offer them immediately after birth, when they were unfit to be eaten, would have indicated a contempt of religion; and besides, this prohibition, as well as that contained in Lev 22:28, inculcated a lesson of humanity or tenderness to the dam, as well as secured the sacrifices from all appearance of unfeeling cruelty.
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Adam Clarke on Leviticus 22:30
Leave none of it until the morrow - See the note on Lev 7:15.
John Gill on Leviticus 22:31
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them,.... Both priests and people, even all the commandments delivered at this time, as well as all others; these they were to observe and take notice of, and keep them in memory, and put them in practice:
I am the Lord; See Gill on Leviticus 22:30.
John Calvin on Leviticus 22:31–end
Leviticus 22:31-33
31. Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the Lord.
31. Observate praecepta mea, et facite ea: ego Jehova.
32. Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the Lord which hallow you,
32. Et ne polluatis nomen sanctum meum, sed sanctificer in medio Israel. Ego Jehova sanctificans vos.
33. That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord.
33. Qui eduxi vos e terra Aegypti, ut essem vobis in Deum: ego Jehova.
32. Neither shall ye profane. In forbidding the profanation of His name, He confirms in other words the foregoing sentiment; guarding by them His worship from all cor…
