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Selected Verse: Leviticus 16:5 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Le 16:5 |
King James |
And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| shall take of the congregation . . . two kids of the goats . . . and one ram--The sacrifices were to be offered by the high priest, respectively for himself and the other priests, as well as for the people. The bullock (Lev 16:3) and the goats were for sin offerings and the rams for burnt offerings. The goats, though used in different ways, constituted only one offering. They were both presented before the Lord, and the disposal of them determined by lot, which Jewish writers have thus described: The priest, placing one of the goats on his right hand and the other on his left, took his station by the altar, and cast into an urn two pieces of gold exactly similar, inscribed, the one with the words "for the Lord," and the other for "Azazel" (the scapegoat). After having well shaken them together, he put both his hands into the box and took up a lot in each: that in his right hand he put on the head of the goat which stood on his right, and that in his left he dropped on the other. In this manner the fate of each was decided. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Take of the congregation - i. e. they were to be supplied at the public cost.
Two kids of the goats - This should be, two shaggy he-goats (Lev 4:23 note), of the same color, size, and value. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
goats
The two goats. The offering of the high priest for himself has no anti-type in Christ (Heb 7:26); (Heb 7:27). The typical interest centers upon the two goats and the high priest. Typically...
1. All is done by the high priest (Heb 1:3) "by Himself"), the people only bring the sacrifice; (Mat 26:47); (Mat 27:24); (Mat 27:25).
2. The goat slain (Jehovah's lot) is that aspect of Christ's work which vindicates the holiness and righteousness of God as expressed in the law (Rom 3:24-26) and is expiatory.
3. The living goat typifies that aspect of Christ's work which puts away our sins from before God (Heb 9:26); (Rom 8:33); (Rom 8:34).
4. The high priest entering the holiest, typifies Christ entering "heaven itself" with "His own blood" for us (Heb 9:11); (Heb 9:12). His blood makes that to be a "throne of grace," and "mercy seat" which else must have been a throne of judgment.
5. For us, the priests of the New Covenant, there is what Israel never had, a rent veil (Mat 27:51); (Heb 10:19); (Heb 10:20). So that, for worship and blessing, we enter, in virtue of His blood, where He is, into the holiest; (Heb 4:14-16); (Heb 10:19-22). The atonement of Christ, as interpreted by the Old Testament sacrificial types, has these necessary elements:
(1) It is substitutionary-the offering takes the offerer's place in death.
(2) The law is not evaded but honored-every sacrificial death was an execution of the sentence of the law.
(3) The sinlessness of Him who bore our sins is expressed in every animal sacrifice-it must be without blemish.
(4) The effect of the atoning work of Christ is typified
(a) in the promises, "it shall be forgiven him"; and
(b) in the peace-offering, the expression of fellowship-the highest privilege of the saint.
(See Scofield) - (Exo 29:33) |
3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:
33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
47 And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;