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Two lambs, every day, continually
Passover was once a year; this is 'day by day continually' — one lamb in the morning, one at even, for as long as the tabernacle stands. Exodus 29:42 calls it 'a continual burnt-offering throughout your generations.' The figure is no longer an event but a rhythm.
38This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old. 39Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.
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On Exodus 29:38–39
The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Exo 29:38 The continual burnt-offering - The primary purpose of the national altar is here set forth. The victim slain every morning and every evening was an acknowledgment that the life of the people belonged to Yahweh; the offering of meal was an acknowledgment that all their works rightly done were His due (see Lev. 2); while the incense symbolized their daily prayers. Exo 29:39 At even - See Exo 12:6. Exo 29:40 A tenth deal - i. e. the tenth part of an Ephah; it is sometimes called an Omer (Exo 16:36; see Lev 23:13).
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
The workbench
Words in this verse
- וְזֶ֕הve.Zeh — and thisH2088
- אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.Sher — [is that] whichH834
- תַּעֲשֶׂ֖הta.'a.Seh — you will offerH6213
- עַל־'al- — onH5921
- הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַha.miz.Be.ach — the altarH4196
- כְּבָשִׂ֧יםke.va.Sim — lambsH3532
- בְּנֵֽי־be.nei- — sons ofH1121
- שָׁנָ֛הsha.Nah — a yearH8141
- שְׁנַ֥יִםshe.Na.yim — twoH8147
- לַיּ֖וֹםlai.Yom — to the dayH3117
- תָּמִֽיד׃ta.Mid — continuallyH8548
The floor
Where the canon echoes this verse
- 1 Chronicles 16:40
to regularly present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offerings, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the Law of the LORD, which He had commanded Israel to keep.
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 16:401 voice
To offer burnt offerings unto the Lord,.... Which was the work of the priests only to do: upon the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening; the lambs of the daily sacrifice, which were a burnt offering, and only to be offered on the brasen altar at the tabernacle: and to do according to all that is written in the law of the Lord, which he commanded Israel; with regard to them, and all other sacrifices, see Exo 29:38.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Numbers 28:3–8
And tell them that this is the offering made by fire you are to present to the LORD as a regular burnt offering each day: two unblemished year-old male lambs. Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives. This is a regular burnt offering established at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. The drink offering accompanying each lamb shall be a quarter hin. Pour out the offering of fermented drink to the LORD in the sanctuary area. And offer the second lamb at twilight, with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning. It is an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Commentary on Numbers 28:3–82 voices
And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Chronicles 2:4
Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.
Commentary on 2 Chronicles 2:42 voices
Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
The symbolic meaning of burning incense is indicated in Rev 8:3-4. Consult the marginal references to this verse. The solemn feasts - The three great annnual festivals, the Passover, the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), and the Feast of tabernacles Lev. 23:4-44; Deut. 16:1-17.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Daniel 12:11
And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days.
Commentary on Daniel 12:112 voices
Verse 11. "And from the time that the continual sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination unto desolation shall be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days." Porphyry asserts that these one thousand two hundred and ninety days were fulfilled in the desolation of the Temple in the time of Antiochus, and yet both Josephus and the Book of Maccabees, as we have said before, record that it lasted for only three years.
Jerome· St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TWELVE, 420Patristic
And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Ezra 3:3
They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD—both the morning and evening burnt offerings—even though they feared the people of the land.
Commentary on Ezra 3:32 voices
They placed the altar on its bases, etc. For the bases are indeed the hearts of the elect, prepared by the commandments of preceding teachers, like the tools of craftsmen, to receive the sacraments of the faith of the Lord. And it is well said …
Bede· Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah, 735Patristic
Or rather let them learn of you, who are so well instructed in such histories, how that Jeshua the son of Josedek the priest, and his brother, and Zerubbabel the wise, the son of Salathiel, and Ezra the priest and scribe of the law, as the temple was being built after the captivity, the feast of tabernacles being at hand (which was a great feast and time of assembly and prayer in Israel), gathered the people together with one accord in the great court within the first gate, which is toward the east, and prepared the altar to God, and there offered their gifts and kept the feast.
Athanasius of Alexandria· DEFENSE BEFORE CONSTANTIUS 18, 373Patristic
- 2 Chronicles 31:3
The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, as written in the Law of the LORD.
Commentary on 2 Chronicles 31:32 voices
He appointed also the king's portion of his substance,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
The kings portion - Amid the general neglect of the observances commanded by the Law, the tithe system had naturally fallen into disuse. Hezekiah revived it; and, to encourage the people to give what was due, cheerfully set the example of paying the full proportion from his own considerable possessions (compare 2Ch 32:28-29). His tithe was, it seems, especially devoted to the purposes mentioned in this verse (compare the marginal reference).
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- 2 Chronicles 13:11
Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.
Commentary on 2 Chronicles 13:111 voice
And they burn unto the Lord, every morning and every evening, burnt sacrifices and sweet incense,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Daniel 9:27
And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
Commentary on Daniel 9:272 voices
Verses 24-27. "'Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished, and everlasting justice may be brought to bear, and that the vision and prophecy may be fulfilled that the Holy One of the saints may be anointed. Know therefore and take note that from the going forth of the word to build up Jerusalem again, unto Christ the prince, there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks, and the street shall be built again, and the walls, in distressing times.
Jerome· St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER NINE, 420Patristic
Then he says, "after sixty-two weeks, times shall be spun out and he shall set forth a covenant with many for one week.
Hippolytus of Rome· Commentary on Daniel 4.35.2-3, 235Patristic
- Daniel 9:21
while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
Commentary on Daniel 9:212 voices
From all these passages are revealed to us, not merely the particulars of the apostasy, and [the doings] of him who concentrates in himself every satanic error, but also, that there is one and the same God the Father, who was declared by the prophets, but made manifest by Christ.
Irenaeus· AGAINST HERESIES 5:25.5, 202Patristic
Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Hebrews 7:27
Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself.
Commentary on Hebrews 7:272 voices
Although we are not his brothers but have become his enemies by our transgressions, he who is not mere man, but God, after the freedom that he bestowed on us, also calls us his brothers. "I will tell of your name," he says, "to my brethren." Now, he who has redeemed us, if you examine his nature, is neither brother nor man; but if you examine his condescension to us through grace, he calls us brothers and descends to our human nature. He does not need a ransom, for he himself is the propitiation.
Basil of Caesarea· HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 19.4 (PSALM 48), 379Patristic
Who needeth not daily, as those high priests,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
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