ever. And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar; and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation. And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses. Lev. xxiii, 24-37, 39--43. Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein; but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. And ye shall do no work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be day shall be a sabbath, and ou seventh month, on the first day of Num. xxix, 12. And on the fif unto the LORD thy God in the afflicted in that same day, he shall Neh. viii, 14-18. And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month; and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive-branches, and pine branches, and myrtle-branches, and palm-branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written. So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water-gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim. And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so: and there was very great gladness. Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God: and they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner. LORD thy God from the land of Hos. xii, 9. And I, that am the Egypt, will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. Zech. xiv, 16, 18, 19. And it that is left of all the nations which shall come to pass, that every one came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to wor ship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And if the family of gypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain, there shall be punishment of Egypt, and the John vil, 2. Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. FEAST OF DEDICATION. 2 Chron. vii, 8-10. Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days and all Israel with him, very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt. And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the teast seven days. And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to israel his people. Ezra vi, 16, 17. And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the chil dren of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy. And offered at tho dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. John x, 22. And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. FEAST OF PURIM. to consume them, and to destroy | Esth. ix, 17-19. 21-24, 26-32. On them: Wherefore they called these the thirteenth day of the month days Purim, after the name of Adar, and on the fourteenth day of Pur: therefore, for all the words the same rested they, and made it a of this letter, and of that which day of feasting and gladness. But they had seen concerning this the Jews that were at Shushan as- matter, and which had come unto sembled together on the thirteenth them, The Jews ordained, and day thereof, and on the fourteenth took upon them, and upon their thereof; and on the fifteenth day seed, and upon all such as joined of the same they rested, and made themselves unto them, so as it it a day of feasting and gladness. should not fail, that they would Therefore the Jews of the villages keep these two days according that dwelt in the unwalled towns, to their writing, and according made the fourteenth day of the to their appointed time; every month A dar a day of gladness and year; And that these days should feasting, and a good day, and of be remembered and kept throughBending portions one to another. out every generation, every faTo stablish this among them, that mily, every province, and every they should keep the fourteenth city; and that these days of Purim day of the month Adar, and the should not fail from among the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, Jews, nor the memorial of them As the days wherein the Jews perish from their seed. Then rested from their enemies, and the Esther the queen, the daughter of month which was turned unto Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, them from sorrow to joy, and wrote with all authority, to confrom mourning into a good day; firm this second letter of Purim. that they should make them days And he sent the letters unto all of feasting and joy, and of sending the Jews, to the hundred twenty portions one to another, and gifts and seven provinces of the kingto the poor. And the Jews under-dom of Ahasuerus, with words of took to do as they had begun, and peace and truth, To confirm these as Mordecai had written unto days of Purim in their times apthem; because Haman, the son of pointed, according as Mordecai Hammedatha. the Agagite, the the Jew and Esther the queen enemy of all the Jews, had devised had enjoined them, and as they against the Jews to destroy them, had decreed for themselves, and and had cast Pur (that is, the loti | for their seed, the matters of the 634 fastings and their cry. And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book. THESE FEASTS NOT BIND ING ON CHRISTIANS. Rom. xiv, 5, 6. One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regarded the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regar deth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. Gal. iv, 9, 10. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. Col. ii. 16, 17. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. (See also under ORDINANCES.) 1st. UNDER THE PATRIARCHAL DISPENSATION. Gen. iv, 3. 4. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering. Gen. vill, 20. And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burut offerings on the altar. Gen. xxli, 13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. Gen. xxxi, 54. Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. Gen. xlvi, 1. And Israel took his Journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. Exod. xviii, 12. And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God. Num. xxii, 40. And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him. And SACRIFICES. he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. Heb. xi, 4. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he, being dead, yet speaketh 2nd. UNDER THE MOSAIC DIS- ONLY ONE PLACE OF SACRIFICE. Exod. xxix, 11. And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Lev. xvii, 2-5, 8, 9. Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, saying, What man soever there be of the house of Israel that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp, And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD, blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people: To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they offer in the open field,even that they may bring door of the tabernacle of the conthem unto the LORD, unto the Num. xxiii, 1-4, 14, 29, 30. Balaam said unto Balak, Buildgregation, unto the priest, and me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven Seven rams. And Balak did as oxen and Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he showeth me, I will tell thee. And he went to an high place. And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram. And offer them for peace-offerings unto the LORD. And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn offering or sacrifice, And bringeth among you, that offereth a burntit not unto the door of the taberoffer it unto the LORD, even that nacle of the congregation, to man shall be cut off from among his people. Deut. xil, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18. 26, 27. But unto the place which the LORD your God shall 635 | | choose ont of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: And thither ye shall bring your burntofferings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, an! heave-offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will-offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there: thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye Vow unto the LORD: Take heed to thyself, thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest: But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds, or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy free-will offerings, or heaveofferings of thine hand: But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, andthy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates:and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thon puttest thine hands unto. Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose: And thou shalt offer thy burnt upon the altar of the LORD thy offerings, the flesh and the blood, fices shall be poured out upon the God: and the blood of thy sacrialtar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. 2 Chron. xi. 16. And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel, came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers, BUT RARELY ALSO OTHER PLACES. Num. xxix, 39. These things yes shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, besides your vows, and Exod. xxiv, 5. And he sent your free-will-offerings, for your young men of the children of burnt-offerings, and for your meatIsrael, which offered burnt-offer-offerings, and for your drinkIngs, and sacrificed peace-offer- offerings, and for your peaceings of oxen unto the Lord. offerings. 1 Sam. x. 8. And thou shalt go Deut. xxxiii, 19. They shall call down before me to Gilgal; and, the people unto the mountain; behold, I will come down unto there they shall offer sacrifices of thee, to offer burnt-offerings, and righteousness; for they shall suck to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-of the abundance of the seas, and offerings: seven days shalt thou of treasures hid in the sand. tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do. 1 Sam. xiii, 8-12. And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. And Saul said, bring hither a burnt-offering to me, and peace-offerings. And he offered the burnt-offering. And it came to pass, that, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burntoffering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him. And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash: Therefore said 1, The Philistines Ps. iv, 5. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. Ps. li, 19. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt-offering, and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. and withont beast. The voice. Micah vi, 6, 7. Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burntofferings, with calves of a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? Ps. 11, 17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Rom. xii, 1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." Ps. cvil, 22. And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, Heb. xiii, 10. 15, 16. We have an and declare his works with rejoic-altar, whereof they have no right ing. Ps. cxvill, 27. God is the LonD. which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar. Isa. xliii. 23, 24. Thou hast not will come down now upon me to brought me the small cattle of thy Gilgal, and I have not made sup-burnt-offerings, neither hast thou plication unto the LORD: I forced honoured me with thy sacrifices: I have not caused thee to serve myself therefore, and offered a burnt-offering. with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made me to serve Lev. vii, 38. Which the LORD with thy sins, thou hast wearied commanded Moses in mount me with thine iniquities. Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai. THE TOKEN OF DEVOTION, AND THEREFORE ACCEPTED BY GOD. Lev. ix, 46. Also a bullock and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat - offering mingled with oil: for to-day the LORD will appear unto you. And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation; and all the congregation drew near, and stood before the LORD. And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do; and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you. Num. xxviii, 2. Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season. Isa. 1x, 7. All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. Jer. xvii, 26. And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat-offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD. Jer. xxxiii, 10, 11. Thus saith the LORD, Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, to eat which serve the tabernacle. BUT NEVER A SUBSTITUTE FOR 1 Sam. xv, 22. And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings, and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. Ps. 1, 7-14. Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continually before me. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds: For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine. It I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto God thanksgiving, and unto the Lost pay thy vows High. Ps. 11, 16. For thou desirest not sacrifice else would I give it; thou delightest not in burnt-offering. Ps. Ixix, 30, 31. I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. Prov. xxi, 3. To do justice and Judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. courts? DIFFERENT MATERIALS QUADRUPEDS. Mal, i, 7, 8, 12-14. Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we Lev. 1, 2, 10. Speak unto the chil Isa. i, 11, 12. To what purpose The table of the LORD is contemp- If any man of you bring an offer polluted thee? In that ye say, dren of Israel, and say unto them, is the multitude or your sacrifices tible. And if ye offer the blinding unto the LORD, ye shall bring unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if your offering of the cattle, even of and the fat of fed beasts; and I ye offer the lame and sick, is it the herd, and of the flock. And not evil? offer it now unto thy if his offering be of the flocks, delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-overnor, will he be pleased with namely, of the sheep, or of the goats. When ye come to appear the LORD of hosts. But ye have shall bring it a male without thee, or accept thy person? saith goats, for a burnt-sacrifice; he before me, who hath required profaned it, in that ye say, The blemish. this at your hand, to tread my table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts: and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen. Jer. vil, 21, 22. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices. Hosea vi, 6. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. Matth. xii, 7. But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. NOT ACCEPTED WHEN NOT OFFERED IN THE RIGHT SPIRIT. Lev. xxvi, 31. And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your Bweet odours. Prov. xv, 8. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. Prov. xxi, 27. The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? Isa. Ixvi, 3. He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their son delighteth in their abominations. Hosea vill, 13. They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt. Amos v, 22. 25. Though ye offer me burnt-offerings, and your meatOfferings, I will not accept them: Amos iv, 4, 5. Come to Beth-el, THEIR DISCONTINUANCE THREAT ENED AS A GREAT CALAMITY. Dan. viii, 11, 12. Yea, he magni- him against the daily sacrifice by Dan. xi, 31. And arms shall Joel i, 9, 13. The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ye ministers of the altar, come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is with Lev. ix, 1-3. And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD. And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take yo a kid of the goats for a sin-offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt-offering. Lev. xxii, 19. Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. BIRDS. sacrifice for his offering to the Lev. 1, 14-17. And if the burntLORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtle-doves, or of young pigeons. And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn thereof shall be wrung out at the it on the altar: and the blood side of the altar. And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathe ashes. And he shall cleave it thers, and cast it beside the altar, on the east part, by the place of with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, offering made by fire, of a sweet upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt-sacrifice, an savour unto the LORD. THEIR QUALIFICATIONS. hath a blemish, that shall ye not Lev. xxii, 20-27. But whosoever offer; for it shall not be acceptable for you. And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD, to accomplish his vow, or a free-will-offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted: there shall be no blemish therein. Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor |