Matthew Henry on Numbers 15:1-21
Here we have,
I. Full instructions given concerning the meat-offerings and drink-offerings, which were appendages to all the sacrifices of animals. The beginning of this law is very encouraging: When you come into the land of your habitation which I give unto you, they you shall do so and so, Num 15:2. This was a plain intimation, not only that God was reconciled to them notwithstanding the sentence he had passed upon them, but that he would secure the promised land to their seed notwithstanding their proneness to rebel against him. They might think some time or other they should be guilty of a misdemeanour that would be fatal to them, and would exclude them for ever, as the last had done fo…
Read the whole note in the consoleJamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 15:13
a stranger--one who had become a proselyte. There were scarcely any of the national privileges of the Israelites, in which the Gentile stranger might not, on conforming to certain conditions, fully participate.
John Gill on Numbers 15:18
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... Who only were bound to observe the following law concerning the cake of the first dough, Numbers 15:20, and not Gentiles; so the Jews say (k), the dough of a Gentile is free from the cake, though an Israelite kneads it:
when ye come into the land whither I bring you; the land of Canaan: this is another assurance of their possession of the land of Canaan, notwithstanding what had been threatened; in Numbers 15:2; it is only said, "which I give unto you", but here, "whither I bring you"; assuring them, that as he had given it unto them, he would certainly introduce them into it. The Jews from hence gather, that they are not bound to ob…
Read the whole note in the consoleJohn Calvin on Numbers 15:17-21
Numbers 15:17-21
17. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
17. Loquutus est Jehova ad Mosen, dicendo,
18. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you;
18. Alloquere filios Israel, et dicas els: Quum ingressi fueritis terram ad quam ego introduco Vos.
19. Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave-offering unto the Lord.
19. Tum fiet, quum incipietis comedere de pane terrae, offeretis in oblationem Jehovae.
20. Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave-offering: as ye do the heave-offering of the thrashing-floor, so shall ye heave it.
20. De primitiis consper…
