Chapter 21

1
Speak Hos 5:1; Mal 2:1, Mal 2:4

There Lev 21:11, Lev 10:6-7; Num 19:14, Num 19:16; Ezek 44:25


2
Lev 18:6; 1Thess 4:13


4
Or, the verse may be read, being an husband among his people, he shall not defile himself for his wife, etc. Ezek 24:16-17


5
not make baldness This custom is also called rounding the corners of the head (Lev 19:27), and seems to have been performed in honour of some idol. Lev 10:6, Lev 19:27-28; Deut 14:1; Isa 15:2, Isa 22:12; Jer 16:6, Jer 48:37; Ezek 44:20; Amos 8:10; Mic 1:16

the corner The Hebrew peath zakon, may denote the whiskers; as the Syriac phatho signifies. These are by the Arabs, according to Niebuhr, still cut entirely off, or worn quite short; and hence they are called by Jeremiah, χφεφι τΰδ, those with cropped whiskers. Perhaps some superstition, of which we are ignorant, was connected with this; but whether or not, it was the object of Moses to keep the Israelites distinct from other nations.


6
holy Lev 21:8, Lev 10:3; Exod 28:36, Exod 29:44; Ezra 8:28; 1Pet 2:9

profane Lev 18:21, Lev 19:12; Mal 1:6, Mal 1:11-12

bread Lev 3:11; Ezek 44:7; Mal 1:7

therefore Isa 52:11


7
that is a whore Lev 21:8; Ezek 44:22; 1Tim 3:11

put away Deut 24:1-4; Isa 50:1


8
sanctify Lev 21:6; Exod 19:10, Exod 19:14, Exod 28:41, Exod 29:1, Exod 29:43-44

for I Lev 11:44-45, Lev 19:2, Lev 20:7-8; John 10:36, John 17:19; Heb 7:26, Heb 10:29


9
the daughter 1Sam 2:17, 1Sam 2:34, 1Sam 3:13-14; Ezek 9:6; Mal 2:3; Matt 11:20-24; 1Tim 3:4-5; Titus 1:6

she shall be burnt Lev 20:14; Gen 38:24; Josh 7:15, Josh 7:25; Isa 33:14


10
upon Lev 8:12, Lev 10:7, Lev 16:32; Exod 29:29-30; Num 35:25; Ps 133:2

consecrated Lev 8:7-9; Exod 28:2-4

uncover Lev 10:6-7, Lev 13:45; 2Sam 15:30; Esth 6:12, not rend, Gen 37:34; Job 1:20; Matt 26:65; All human corpses were considered as unclean. Whoever touched one was unclean for seven days, and was obliged on the third and seventh day to purify himself according to the Mosaic instructions. In the case of the priest it went still farther; insomuch, that even mourning for the dead by any external sign, such as tearing their clothes, defiled them. Hence such mournings were absolutely forbidden to be used in any case, and by the other priests also, except in the case of their very nearest relations, for whom they were allowed to mourn. This statue is founded on the importance of sustaining the decency and purity of Divine worship. The servants of the Deity were to keep themselves at a distance from every thing that in the least degree savoured of uncleanness.


11
his father Lev 21:1-2; Num 6:7, Num 19:14; Deut 33:9; Matt 8:21-22, Matt 12:46-50; Luke 9:59-60; Luke 14:26; 2Cor 5:16


12
go out Lev 10:7

for the crown Lev 8:9-12, Lev 8:30; Exod 28:36, Exod 29:6-7; Isa 61:1; Acts 10:38


13
Lev 21:7; Ezek 44:22; 2Cor 11:2; Rev 14:4


15
profane Gen 18:19; Ezra 2:62, Ezra 9:2; Neh 13:23-29; Mal 2:11, Mal 2:15; Rom 11:16; 1Cor 7:14

for I the Lev 21:8


17
blemish Lev 22:20-25; 1Thess 2:10; 1Tim 3:2; Heb 7:26

let him Lev 21:21, Lev 10:3; Num 16:5; Ps 65:4

bread or, food, Lev 3:11, Lev 3:16


18
a blind man Isa 56:10; Matt 23:16-17, Matt 23:19; 1Tim 3:2-3, 1Tim 3:7; Titus 1:7, Titus 1:10

superfluous Lev 22:23


20
a dwarf or, too slender

or hath Deut 23:1


21
a blemish In the above list of blemishes, we meet with some that might render the priest contemptible in the eyes of men; and others that would be very great impediments in the discharge of his ministerial duties.

to offer Lev 21:6, Lev 21:8, Lev 21:17


22
both Lev 2:3, Lev 2:10, Lev 6:16-17, Lev 6:29, Lev 7:1, Lev 24:8-9; Num 18:9-10

and of the holy Lev 22:10-13; Num 18:10, Num 18:19


23
go in Exod 30:6-8, Exod 40:26-27; Ezek 44:9-14

profane Lev 21:12, Lev 15:31

for I the Lord Lev 21:8


24
Aaron Mal 2:1-7; Col 4:17; 1Tim 1:18; 2Tim 2:2


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