act or sign of public mourning, no not for his very parents; nor into the room where their corpses are laid.

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15. "Neither shall he profane his seed among his people."] -If he shall marry with any of these forbidden persons, the issue which he shall have by her shall be accounted as unhallowed, and shall not be capable of succeeding him in executing the priest's office.

18. "Or any thing superfluous."]—Or that hath any part or limb more than he should, or monstrously excessive in the proportion thereof.

XXII. 14. "If a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part unto it, and shall give it unto the priest."]-If any Israelite, that is not of the priest's family, shall ignorantly eat of those holy things that are appropriated by God's ordinance to the priests, he shall pay the price of that whereof he eateth, and add withal a fifth part more of the full worth, by way of satisfaction to the priest.

25. "Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these."]-Not only shall ye refuse to offer blemished and unperfect sacrifices from the hands of Israelites ; but if any heathen man, who is a stranger from the commonwealth of Israel, shall offer to present any such blemished or unworthy oblation to you, ye shall also reject it, as that which is unlawful to be offered to God.

XXIII. 27. Vide xvi. ver. 29.

39. "Shall be a sabbath."]-On the first and on the eighth day ye shall rest from your labours.

XXIV. 14. "Let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head."]-Let all that heard him, as in way of ratification of their testimony, lay their hands on his head; as thereby professing that the blood of the blasphemer shall be upon his own head, as who doth most worthily suffer for his sin.

XXV. 6. "And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you;" &c.]-And that fruit, of what kind soever, which groweth upon thy land, in the seventh year shall serve indifferently for meat and drink for the servant and stranger, as well as the owner; and shall be freely taken, and used accordingly.

23. "For the land is mine ;" &c.]-The land is mine in a more peculiar manner; as that which I have set apart to be the inheritance of my chosen people on earth, and to be a figure of their happy and glorious inheritance in heaven.

24. "And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land."]-In all the land which ye possess ye shall suffer a redemption to be given by him that sold or mortgaged it; and shall accept thereof in the appointed year of jubilee.

34. "But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold."]-If the Levites might sell their houses in their cities, yet the fields, which are about the suburbs of the city, three thousand cubits in extent from the walls thereof, may not at all be aliened or sold.

XXVI. 5. "And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage."] -You shall have a continued succession of blessings and variety of increase of all kinds of fruits, one in the neck of another; so as no sooner shall the threshing of your corn be finished than your vintage shall come in hand.

24. "I will punish you yet seven times."]-I will bring divers and frequent judgments upon you for your sins.

26." And when I have broken the staff of your bread."]-And when I have brought upon you famine and scarcity, and have bereaved you of that which is the staff of your life, bread, &c.

34. "Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths."]-Then shall the land be quiet; as being delivered from those wicked inhabitants which brought a curse upon it; and from those busy labours wherewith it was worn out and torn up continually.

XXVII. 16. "And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver."]-And if a man will consecrate unto the Lord some part of that field, which by inheritance is descended to him, and would redeem it; it shall be valued according to the proportion of that seed which is fit and sufficient to be sown in that parcel: every ten bushels of barley seed shall be rated at fifty shekels of silver.

25. "Shekel of the sanctuary."]-See Lev. v. 15.

29. "None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed."]-No creature which, under a solemn vow or curse, shall be devoted to destruction, shall be redeemed by any price whatsoever, whether it be man or beast; but shall undergo that death to which it was solemnly devoted.

NUMBERS.

I. 51. "The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death."] -Any Israelite whosoever, being not of the tribe of Levi, if he offer to meddle with the ark, shall surely die; either by the immediate hand of God or by the hand of human justice and authority.

II. 2. "Far off about the tabernacle."]-The measure of at least two thousand cubits, shall be the distance betwixt the tents of Israel and the holy tabernacle of God.

III. 7. "And they shall keep his charge."]-They shall do that service which Aaron, as from the Lord, shall appoint unto them.

9. "Thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons."] -Thou shalt design and appoint the Levites to attend upon Aaron and his sons in the holy ministration.

12. "I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn," &c.]-Whereas, before, the firstborn of the family was ordained to execute the office of the priesthood, and to offer sacrifices for the rest, now I have confined this office to one tribe alone; so as only those of Levi shall, instead of the firstborn, be set apart for this work.

IV. 7. "The continual bread shall be thereon."]-That shewbread, which is appointed to be continually set upon the table before the Lord; being every sabbath to be renewed in a perpetual

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V. 6. "Shall commit any sin that men commit.”]—When a man or woman shall commit any sin of frailty or infirmity, which is commonly incident to every man.

7. " He shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part."]-By way of recompense, he shall pay the price of that thing which he hath taken away, or wherein he hath done the wrong; and add, moreover, a fifth part of the worth as a satisfaction to the party wronged.

12. "If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him."]-If any man's wife shall leave off the conversation of her husband, and offend against his bed.

18. "The bitter water."]-That water, which shall prove bitterly afflictive and deadly to her, if she be guilty. Vide ver. 27. VI. 5." Shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow."]-To signify the continuance of his holy consecration and his subjection to God, he shall suffer his hair to grow unto the length.

21. "For his separation, beside that that his hand shall get."] -This offering he shall make to the Lord for his Nazariteship; besides that voluntary oblation which he shall moreover make upon any other occasion unto God.

27. "And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them."]-Laying their hands upon the children of Israel, they shall call upon my name for a blessing; and it shall be given by me according to their prayers.

VII. 2. "The princes offered."]-The princes of Israel, by their several gifts, testified their joyful celebration of the dedication of the tabernacle and the altar.

8. "Four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari."]-To the sons of Merari, whose charge was the heaviest carriage that belonged to the tabernacle, as the boards and pillars thereof, he gave a double proportion of wagons and oxen, for the more easy removal thereof.

89. "When Moses, &c. to speak with him."]-When Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation, to attend upon the Lord, and to receive his commandments.

VIII. 2. "The seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick."-The seven lamps shall give light, round about the bulk or shaft of the candlestick, on all sides.

II. Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel.”]—Aaron shall present the Levites before the Lord, as persons consecrated to God; whom the chief of Israel, in the name of all the rest, shall devote to the holy service of God, in their behalf, as designed and allowed by them to offer up their oblations.

24. "From twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle."]-From the age of twenty-five years they shall so enter into the tabernacle as to inform themselves, and to learn, both by institution and practice, how to perform the services; and at the age of thirty years they shall enter upon the execution of their charge. 25. "After fifty years, &c. they shall serve no more."]-They shall not serve any more, after the age of fifty, in any of the painful and laborious works of carriage or attendance; although, for oversight and aid of advice, no age ought to be exempted.

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appearance of fire, until the morning."]-In the day that the tabernacle was perfectly set up, God gave visible testimony of his presence therein; appearing, in the day time, as a cloud in the Holy of Holies, over the ark; and, in the night time, as a lightsome fire over the same.

18. "At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed."]-Upon the will of God, signified really to them by the stay or removal of the cloud, they disposed of their journey or abode.

X. 2. "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of one whole piece shalt thou make them."]-Of one entire piece, beaten out into length and breadth, shalt thou make each trumpet; and not of several parcels beaten together: of silver, for the purity of the metal; of one piece, for the unity and perfection of the sound.

31. "Thou mayest be to us instead of eyes."]—By reason of thy knowledge and experience thou mayest be a good direction for us.

XI. 1. "And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them in the uttermost parts of the camp."]-And the people murmured and were discontent at their three days' journey in the wilderness, ere they settled in a restingplace; and the Lord took notice of their repining; and his anger was kindled against them, and showed itself in a sensible judgment upon them; for he sent forth a visible fire amongst them, and consumed those that were in the outer skirts of the camp.

4. "And the mixt multitude that were among them fell a lusting and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?"]-And the multitude, which was a mixed company of native Israelites and of strangers that came along with them out of Egypt, fell to an earnest longing and lusting after their old diet, and said, O that somebody would now give us flesh to eat!

7. "The manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium."]-The manna was, in fashion and quantity, like to coriander seed; and the colour of it was as of a clear white gum.

15. "And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee."] If I shall be put to bear the charge and burden of this busy and troublesome people alone, rather take me away.

17. "I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put