these words is used for our shamefull parts flesh in Gen. 17. 11. Ezek. 23. 20. nakednesse in Gen. 9. 22. 23. Lev. 18. 7. which are here commanded to bee covered with linnen which signified righteousnesse Revel 19. 8. even the righteousnesse which is of God by faith wherby our sinne which is our shame Romans 6. 21. is covered Rom. 4. 6. 7. And as all these garments are given of God to Aaron and his sonnes so hee it was that clothed our first parents after their nakednesse Gen. 3. 21. and he hath spred his skirts over us and covered our filthiness when we were naked and bare Ezek. 16. 7. 8. and counselleth all to buy of him white rayment that they may be clothed and their filthie nakednesse appeare not Revel 3. 18. even to put on the Lord Iesus Christ and to make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts therof Rom. 13. 14. the thighes from above the navell a little off from the heart unto the end of the thigh saith Maimony in Implements of the Sanctuary Chap. 8. Sect. 18. Though these parts were covered by the former garments yet lest by wind or any other accident they should haply be discovered God for more reverence of his Majesty and regard of seemlinesse and honesty appointeth this close covering which as Maimony expresseth were tyed with strings and made close like a purse Thus God gave more abundant honour to that part which lacked and our uncomely parts have more abundant comelinesse as Paul saith 1 Cor. 12. 23. 24. Vers. 43. beare not iniquity that is beare not punishment for this iniquity and dye The Greeke translateth and they shall not bring sinne upon themselves that they dye not For God is of purer eyes then to behold evill Hab. 1. 13. and hee that had not on his wedding garment was bound hand and foot and cast into utter darknesse Matth. 22. 12. 13. Blessed therefore is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walke naked and his shame be seene Revelat. 16. 15. This caution is not for the breeches onely but for all the garments as the Hebrew Doctors have gathered thus The high Priest that ministreth with lesse then these eight garments or the inferiour Priest that ministreth with lesse then these foure garments his service is unlawfull and hee is guilty of death by the hand of God even as a stranger that ministreth as it is written in Exodus 29. 9. AND THOV SHALT GIRTHEN VVITH GIRDLES c. AND THE PRIESTHOOD SHALL BE THEIRS when thee garments are upon them their Priesthood is upon them if their garments be not upon them their priest-hood is not upon them but loe they are as strangers and it is written in Num. 1. 51. THE STRANGER THAT COMMETH NIGH SHALLBE PVT TO DEATH As he that wanteth his garment is guiltie of death and his service unlawfull so is he that hath moe garments As hee that puts on two coats or two girdles Or the common priest that puts on the high priests garments and serveth loe he polluteth the service and is guiltie of death by the hand of the God of heaven Maimony in treat of the Implements of the Sanctuarie ch 10. sect 4. 5. CHAP. XXIX 1. The things which Moses was to get readie for the consecrating of the Priests unto their office 4 To wash their bodies 5 The order how to put on the high priests garments 7. and to aniont him 8 The araying of the other priests 10 The manner how to sacrifice the Bullocke which was for a sin-offring 15 And the first Ram which was for a Burnt-offring 19 And the second Ram which was for consecration of the Priests to that the blood therof should be put on their eares hands and feet 21 With that blood and with oile they and their garments should be sprinkled 26 The manner how to wave the brest of that sacrifice and to leave up the shoulder thereof in the Priests hands 30 Seven daies the time of consecration 32 The Priest must eate the Ram wherewith they should bee consecrated 36 Of purifying the Altar seven dayes 38 Of the two Lambs which should be for a daily burnt offring in Israel continually 40 with their meat and drinke-offerings 43 God promiseth to sanctifie his Tabernacle and people and to dwell among them AND this is the thing that thou shalt doe unto them to sanctifie them to minister-in-the-Priests-office unto me Take one Bullocke a yongling of the Herd and Two Rams perfect And unleavened bread and cakes unleavened tempered with oile and wafers unleavened anointed with oile of wheaten flowre shalt thou make them And thou shalt put them into one basket and shalt bring them neer in the basket and the bullock and the two Rams And Aaron and his Sonnes thou shalt bring neare unto the doore of the tent of the congregation and shalt wash them with water And thou shalt take the garments and shalt clad Aaron with the Coat and with the Robe of the Ephod and with the Ephod and with the Brestplate and shalt fitly gird clà d with the curious girdle of the Ephod And thou shalt put the Miter upon his head and shalt fasten the Crowne of holinesse upon the Miter And thou shalt take the anointing oile and poure it upon his head and anoint him And thou shalt bring neer his Sons and clad them with Coats And thou shalt gird them with Girdles Aaron and his Sons and shalt bind the bonnets on them and the priesthood shall be theirs for an eternall statute and thou shalt fill the hand of Aaron and the hand of his Sonnes And thou shalt bring neere the bullocke before the Tent of the congregation and Aaron and his Sons shall impose their hands upon the head of the bullocke And thou shalt kill the bullocke before Iehovah at the doore of the Tent of the congregation And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullocke and put upon the hornes of the Altar with thy finger and shalt poure all the blood at the bottome of the Altar And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards the caule that is above the liver and the two kidneyes and the fat which is upon them and shalt burne them upon the Altar And the flesh of the bullocke and his skin and his dung shalt thou burne with fire without the campe it is a Sinne offring And thou shalt take the one Ram and Aaron and his Sonnes shall impose their hands upon the head of the Ram. And thou shalt kill the Ram and shalt take his blood and sprinkle upon the altar round about And thou shalt cut the Ram into his peeces and shalt wash his inwards and his legges and put them unto his peeces and unto his head And thou shalt burne all the Ram upon the altar it is a Burnt-offring unto Iehovah it is a savour of rest a Fire offring unto Iehovah And thou shalt take the other Ramme and Aaron and his sonnes shall
it be of the cleane holy thing or of the uncleane holy thing doing it presumptuously hee is guilty of cutting off Lev. 7. 20. and if he eate ignorantly be must bring the sacrifice appointed in Levit 5. 2. 11. Maimony in Pesulei hamukdashin cha 18. s. 13. of peace-offrings and so by proportion of other sacrifices for the same law is for other holy things of the altar saith Maimony ibidem The flesh of these sacrifices being a figure of the flesh of Christ to bee eaten of the saints by faith this law signified that all unbeleevers hypocrites and wicked ones that professe the Gospell and partake of the signes and seales of grace unworthily doe eate and drinke judgment to themselves 1 Cor. 11. â—7 28. â—9 Vers. 23. fâ—â— of oxe This explaineth and limiteth the law before given in Levit. 3. 17. to the fat of these three kindes of beasts see the annotations there V. 24. of a karkasse to weet that which dieth of it selfe or otherwise after an unlawfull manner To â—ate the flesh of carkasses or of things that were 〈◊〉 was unlawfull Exod. 22. 31. Levit. 17. 15. and 22. 8. Deut. 14. 21. Ezek. 4. 14. and 44. 31. to eat fat of such was a double trespasse Hee that 〈◊〉 the fat of a dead or torn â—east is guilty both for 〈◊〉 the fat for eating the dead or torn beast c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. treat of Forbidden meats c. 7. s. 2. Ver. 25 shall be cut off the Greek translateth shall perish to weet if he doe it with a high hand He that 〈◊〉 so much as an olive of fat presumptuously is in danger to be cut-off if he doe it ignorantly hee is to 〈◊〉 the Sinne-offring appointed Maim treat of For 〈…〉 meats ch 7. s. 1. So for the next case of eating blood vers 27. V. 26. or of beast This also is a limitation wherupon the Iewes hold no prohibition of the blood of fishes locusts creeping things and the like see the notes on Lev. 3. 17. and 17. 10. 14. and Gen. 9. 4. So Sol. larchi here noteth of fowle or of beast to except the blood of fishes locusts c Vers. 29. his oblation in Gr his gift meaning those things which were given out of the Peace-offerings to the Lord and to the Priest Ver. 30. His hands he might not doe it by another person but the Priest put the parts-of the sacrifices into the owners hands and received them of him See the notes on Lev. 3. 5 and 7. 12. fat with the breast of which the fat was the Lords burnt on the altar the breast was the Priests to eate verse 31. wave it The manner of doing this and the signification of it see in Lev. 3. 5. and Exod. 29. 24. It figured the giving of our breast that is of the heart and affections unto Châ—ist in newnesse of life in the fellowship of his afflictions Prov. 23. 26. 1 Chron. 28. 9. Rom. 6. 3. 4. 5. 6. Phil. 3. 10. Ver. 32. Heave-offring in Greek and Chaldee a separation or separated thing because it was separated from the rest of the body heaved up towards heaven and after given to the Lords Priest It signified an acknowledgement that all good things came downe from God and an indeavour that all the wayes of his people should tend upward unto God that so their conversation might be heavenly Iam. 1. 17. Phil. 3. 20. Prov. 15. 24. Verse 34. statute for ever or an eternall ordinance to continue so long as the law of sacrificing should continue that is till Christs comming and after that the equitie of it to remaine still for as they which wayted at the Altar were partakers with the Altar even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospell should live of the gospell 1 Cor. 9 13. 14. Verse 35. the anointing that is the portion or reward of the Anointing meaning of the anointed Priests For that hee speaketh of their portion the words before and after manifest and in verse 36. it is that which Iehovah commanded to give unto them And Anointing is figuratively put for the Priest anointed as Oyle is used for Christ which had the oyle of grace without measure on him Esay 10. 27. So dreames are put for dreamers Ierem. 27. 9. Spirits for spirituall gifts 1 Cor. 14. 12 thanksgivings for companies of thanksgivers Nehem. 12. 31. Circumcision for persons circumcised Rom. 2. 26. and many the like In like manner divination is used for the rewards of divination sent unto Balaam Numbers 22. 7. iniquitie for the punishment or desert of iniquitie Levit. 7. 18. Iob 11. 6. So Chazkum here expoundeth the anointing to bee the reward of their anointing presented or offred them and here in the day meaneth from that day forward for ever as appeareth by vers 36. Vers. 37. fillings of the hand that is as the Greeke explaineth it Perfection or Consecration when the hand was filled with parts of the sacrifices see Exodus 29. 9. c. in the annotations That sacrifice is here reckoned among the rest because it was commanded at mount Sinai Exodus 29. and iâ— after to be shewed in practice Leviticus 8. Vers. 38. in the wildernesse of Sinai named of Sinai the mountaine in Arabia where the Law was given which is Agar gendering to bond age Gal. 4. 24. 25. Before they came thither they offred no sacrifice there God gave them these lawes described from the beginning of Leviticus hitherto as shadowes of good things to come Hebr 10. 〈◊〉 â—ll the Lambe Christ on mount Sion should by the sacrifice of himselfe when he made his soule a Trespasse offring Esay 53. 10. cause the Sacrifice and Oblation to cease Dan. 9. 27. who hath by one offring perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb. 10. 14. so that now among the Gentiles in every place incense is offred unto the name of God and a pure Meat-offring Mal. 1. 11. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually Hebr. 13. 15. CHAP. VIII 1. Moses consecrateth Aaron and his sonnes to the Priests office 14 Their Sinne-offring 18 Their Burnt-offring 22 The ram of the filling of the hands 31 The place and time of their consecration ANd Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Take Aaron and his sons with him and the garments and the anointing oile and a Bullocke for a Sinne offring and two rammes and a basket of unlevened cakes And gather thou together all the congregation unto the doore of the Tent of the congregation And Moses did as Iehovah commanded him and the congregation was gathered together unto the doore of the Tent of the congregation And Moses said unto the congregation This is the thing which Iehovah commanded to be done And Moses brought-neere Aaron and his sons and washed them with water And he put upon him the Coat and girded him with the girdle and clothed him with the Robe and put the Ephod upon him and girded him with the
and all the vessels thereof the Laver and the foot thereof The tapestrie-hangings of the Court the pillars thereof and the sockets thereof and the hanging-veile for the gate of the court the cords thereof and the pins thereof and all the vessels of the service of the Tabernacle for the Tent of the Congregation The garments of ministery to minister in the Holy place the garments of holinesse for Aaron the Priest and the garments of his sons to minister-in-the-priests-office According to all that Iehovah commanded Moses so the sonnes of Israel made all the worke And Moses saw all the worke and behold they had done it as Iehovah had commanded so had they done and Moses blessed them Annotations OF ministery whereof see Exod. 31. 10. of holinesse that is the holy garments specified in Exodus 28. V. 2. Ephod described in Exod. 28. 6. c. V. 3. beat-thinne or spread abroad wiers or threds of those plates in the blew or in the midst of w ch the Gr. translateth with the blew c. For the gold thred was twisted with the blew with every of the other colors as is noted on Exodus 28. 6. Vers. 6. Beryl see Exod. 28. 9. Ver. 8. Brestplate whereof see Exod. 28. 15. c. V. 10. Smaragd or Emeraud see Exod. 28. 17. Vers. 22. woven worke Hebrew worke of the weaver see Exod. 28. 31. c. Ver. 24. twisted or twined the Greeke addeth and bysse that is fine linnen twined See the notes on Exod. 28. 33. Vers. 27. coats whereof see Exod. 28. 40. Ver. 28. goodly ornaments this words is sometime used for the Bonnets themselves as in Ezek. 44. 18. Vers. 30. crowne of holiness that is holy crowne or separation as both the Hebrew and Greeke signifieth see Exod 29. 6. and 28. 36. Vers. 32. so did they this hath respect unto the charge before given Ex. 25. 40. and for this cause the particulars have been repeated by Moses that all might see the care which he and the workmen had to make all things both for matter and forme according to the patterne and commandement given of God Such faithfulnesse also was in Christ Heb. 3. 2. and ought to be in all Christians concerning Gods heavenly ordinances in his Church whereof these things were a patterne and shadow Heb. 8. 5. 1 Tim. 6. 13. 14. and 5. 21. Vers. 33. bars or barre an in Exod. â—5 11. Vers. 37. to be set in order Hebr. lamps of ordering or of disposition which the Priest were to trim every day see the notes on Exod. 27. 21. the Greeke translateth lamps of burning Vers. 38. of sweet spices in Greeke of composition that is the compounded incense Ver. 42. all the worke or all the service which the Gr. calleth Preparation or Furniture V. 43 saw or viewed as he that was charged with the oversight of this whole work Exodus 25. 40. the worke in Gr. works blessed them that is as Gods publike minister pronounced a blessing from the Lord upon these workmen see Gen. 14. 19. Herein Moses was a figure of Christ who will blesse them that faithfully observe the Commandements of God 2 Tim. 4. 7. 8. for who so is a doer of the worke this man shall be blessed in his deed Iam. 1. 25. Hereupon the Hebr. say Worke is a great thing for Shecinah that is the Divine presence or Majestie of God in Christ dwelled not in Israel untill they had done the worke as it is written in Exod. 39. 43. AND MOSES SAVV ALL THE VVORKE c. AND MOSES BLESSED THEM And how did heè blesse them Hee said unto them The Lord vouchsafe that the Divine-presence Shecinah may dwell in the worke of your hands And so it came to passe as it is said in Exod. 40. 34. And the cloud covered the Tent. c. and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle R. Elias in Reshith chocmah fol 420. a. CHAP. XL. 1 The Lord commandeth the Tabernacle to be reared 4 and things to be set in order therein 8 and the Court to be set about it 9 The Tabernacle and all the vessells thereof the Altar and Laver to bee anointed with oile 12 Aaron and his sons to be washed cloathed anointed sanctified 16 Moses obeyeth and reareth up the Tabernacle 21 carieth in the Arke 22 placeth the Table 24 and the Candlesticke 26 and the golden Altar 29 and the brazen Altar 30 and the Laver 33 and reare 〈…〉 up the Court 34. A cloud covereth the Tabernacle and Gods glory filleth it 38. The cloud was on the Tabernacle by day and fire by night continually ANd Iehovah spake unto Moses saying In the day of the first moneth in the first of the moneth thou shalt reare-up the Tabernacle the Tent of the Congregation And thou shalt put there the Arke of the Testimony and cover the Arke with the veile And thou shalt bring in the Table and set-in-order the order therof and thou shalt bring-in the Candlesticke cause to ascend the lamps therof And thou shalt set the Altar of gold for the incense before the Arke of the testimony and put the hanging-veile of the doore to the Tabernacle And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt-offring before the doore of the Tabernacle of the Tent of the Congregation And thou shalt set the Laver between the Tent of the Congregation and the altar and shalt put water there And thou shalt set the Court round-about and put the hanging-veile at the gate of the Court. And thou shalt take the oile of anointing and anoint the Tabernacle and all that is therein and shalt sanctifie it and all the vessels therof and it shall be holy And thou shalt anoynt the Altar of the burnt-offring and all the vessels thereof and shalt sanctifie the Altar and the Altar shall bee Holy of holies And thou shalt anoynt the Laver and the foot thereof and sanctifie it And thou shalt bring-neere Aaron his sons unto the doore of the Tent of the congregation wash them with water And thou shalt cloth AaroÌ„ with the garmeÌ„ts of holinesse and shalt anoint him and sanctifie him he shall minister-in-the-priests-office unto me And thou shalt bring-neere his sons and clothe them with coats And thou shalt anoint them as thou didst anoint their father and they shall minister-in-the-priests-office unto me and their anoynting shall bee to bee unto them for an eternall priesthood throughout their generations And Moses did according to all that Iehovah commanded him so did he And it was in the first moneth in the second yeere in the first day of the moneth the Tabernacle was reared up And Moses reared-up the Tabernacle and set the sockets thereof and set-up the boards thereof and put-in the bars thereof and reared-up the pillars thereof And hee spread abroad the Tent over the Tabernacle and put the covering of the Tent upon it above as Iehovah commanded Moses And he tooke and put the Testimony into the Arke and set
Ithamar see 1 Chron. 24. Vers. 25. Phinehas of him see Numb 25. 7. c. Ver. 26. their armies or their hosts that is not confusedly but their ordered troups being increased to many thousands and called the hosts of the Lord Exod. 12. 37. 41. and 7 4. These were after ordered according to their tribes Numb 10. 14. 15. c. Of the word host or army see Gen. 2. 1. Vers. 27. to bring that is that they might bring as verse 13. Vers. 30. of uncircumcised Greek of a small voice Chaldee of an heavy speech see before verse 12. and Exod. 4. 10. CHAP. VII 1 Moses is made Pharohs God and Aaron his Prophet 3. Pharaohs heart should bee heardned against their words and signes 6 Moses and Aaron doe a they are bidden 7 Their age 10. Aarons rod is turned to a Serpent 11 The Sorcerers doe the like 13 Pharaohs heart is hardned 14 Moses is sent againe unto him with word and signe 19 The waters of Egypt are turned into blood 21 The fishes dye 22 The Magicians doe the like miracle whereupon Pharaoh is hardned still AND Iehovah said unto Moses See I have made thee a God to Pharaoh and Aaron thy brother shall bee thy Prophet Thou shalt speake all that I command thee and Aaron thy brother shall speake unto Pharaoh that he send the sonnes of Israel out of his land And I will harden Pharaohs heart and will multiply my signes and my wonders in the land of Egypt And Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you and I will lay my hand upon Egypt and wil bring forth mine armies my people the sonnes of Israel out of the land of Egypt by great judgements And the Egyptians shall know that I am Iehovah when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and I will bring out the sonnes of Israel from among them And Moses and Aaron did as Iehovah commanded them so did they And Moses was fourscore yeeres old and Aaron fourescore and three yeeres old when they spake unto Pharaoh And Iehovah sayd unto Moses and unto Aaron saying When Pharaoh shall speake unto you saying Give a wonder for you then thou shalt say unto Aaron take thy rod and cast it before Pharaoh it shall be turned to a dragon And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh and they did so as Iehovah had commanded and Aaron cast his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants and it was turned to a dragon And Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers and they also the magicians of Egypt did with their inchantments so And they cast down every man his rod and they were turned to dragons and Aarons rod swallowed up their rods And Pharaohs heart waxed strong and hee hearkened not unto them as Iehovah had spoken And Iehovah said unto Moses Pharaohs heart is heavy he refuseth to send away the people Go unto Pharaoh in the morning loe he goeth out unto the waters and thou shalt stand to meet him by the rivers brinke and the rodde which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand And thou shalt say unto him Iehovah the God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee saying Send away my people that they may serve mee in the wildernesse and behold thou hast not heard hitherto Thus saith Iehovah in this thou shalt know that I am Iehovah behold I smite with the rod which is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river they shall bee turned into blood And the fish which is in the river shall dye and the river shall stinke and the Egyptians shall bee wearied to drinke the waters of the river And Iehovah said unto Moses Say unto Aaron take thy rod and stretch out thy hand upon the waters of Egypt upon their streames upon their rivers and upon their ponds and upon every gathering together of their waters and they shall be bloud and there shall be blood in all the land of Egypt both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone And Moses and Aaron did as Iehovah commanded and he lift up the rodde and smote the waters which were in the river in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants and all the waters which were in the river were turned to blood And the fish which was in the river dyed and the river stanke and the Egyptians could not drinke the waters of the river and there was blood in all the land of Egypt And the magicians of Egypt did so by their inchantments and the heart of Pharaoh waxed strong and hee hearkned not vnto them as Iehovah had said And Pharaoh turned and went into his house and hee set not his heart to this neither And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for waters to drinke for they could not drinke of the waters of the river And seven daies were fulfilled after that Iehovah had smitten the river Annotations MAde or given thee for a God that is one to whom the word of God shall come and by whom it shall be made knowne unto Aaron and so to Pharaoh This reason Christ rendreth of the like speech Ioh. 10. 35. The Chaldee for God translateth a master see Exod. 4. 16. Prophet to speake for thee as the next verse manifesteth the Chaldee saith thy interpreter before God called him his mouth Exod. 4. 16. A Prophet hath the name of speaking or interpreting Gods word see the notes on Gen. 20. 7. Thus God confirmes Moses against his feares Exod 6. 12. 30. Ver. 2. speake the Greeke addeth to him meaning Aaron as Exod. 4. 15. Vers. 3. harden as before he said he would make strong Exod. 4. 21. wonders or perswadingmiracles for to draw men to beleeve and obey as Deut. 13. 1. 2. Ioh. 4. 48. Rom. 15. 18. 19. By such God beareth witnesse to his word preached Heb 2. 4. and they portend either good 2 Chron. 32. 24. or evill Deut. 6. 22. and 28. 46. yet can they not perswade any without the speciall grace of God Deut. 29. 2. 3. 4. Vers. 4. lay Hebrew give my hand which the Chaldee expoundeth lay my powerfull plague so verse 5. armies or hosts see Exod. 6. 26. The Greeke translateth with my power Ver. 7. old Hebrew some of 80 yeere of which phrase see Gen. 5. 32. By this it appeareth Moses had beene 40. yeeres in the land of Madian as Stephen avoucheth Act 7. 30. See Exod. 2. 23. Ver. 9. a wonder or perswading miracle that I may know ye are sent of God see verse 3. The Greeke addeth a signe or a wonder thy rod because Aaron now used it before it was Moses rod and Gods Exod. 4. 2. 20. a dragon that is a great serpent and therefore in ver 15. it is called a serpent as also before in Exod. 4. 3. So the Devill is called the dragon the old serpent Rev. 20. 2. And Pharaoh himselfe with his Egyptians are called dragons Ezek. 29. 3. Psal. 74. 13. But this wonder was a
the spiritually Egyptians by whose sinne the third part of the sea became blood and of other waters became wormewood Revel 8. 8. 11. there be the like plagues from the phials or cups of Gods Angels as are here by the rod of Gods messengers their sea rivers and fountaines becomming blood they having shed the blood of Saints and Prophets and God giving them blood to drinke for they are worthy Revel 16. 3. 6. Of this plague the Psalmist also speaketh Psal. 78. 44. and 105. 29. Contrariwise God blesseth his people by turning for them the rockes to rivers and fountaines of waters Psal. 78. 15. 16. and 114. 8. and giving them the water of life to drinke Ioh. 4. 10. 14. Rev. 22. 1. 17. Vers. 21. died so in Antichrists sea every living soule dyeth Revel 16. 3. as by their impietie they had caused the third part of such to dye before Revel 8. 9. Contrariwise in the holy land corrupt waters are healed the creatures in them live and fish are multiplied Ezek. 47. 8. 9. stunke whereas the waters of Egypt served them for drinke Ierm 2. 18. there being no raine in the Countrey Deut. 11. 10. 11. God turning them to stinking blood and killing the fish the plague was the more grievous For fishes were their common food Numb 11. 5. the flesh of many beasts they through superstition would not eate of Exodus 8. 26. so that which the Prophet after threatneth was now upon them The fishers mourned and all they that cast angle into the brookes lamented and they that spread nets upon waters languished Esay 19. 8. Vers. 22. did so as before in verse 11. They could by inchantments increase their owne plagues but not ease themselves see Exodus 8. 7. 8. But where had they water to turne into blood either they found some by digging about the river verse 24. or they had some fetched from another place as Gosen see the notes on v. 18. wexed strongs the Greeke saith was hardened see verse 13. Vers. 23. set not that is regarded not nor cared for this wondrous plague so the setting of the heart signifieth carefull regard Exod. 9. 21. Prov. 22. 17. 2 Sam. 18. 3. CHAP. VIII 1 God threatneth Pharaoh if hee send not Israel away to plague his Realme with frogges 5 Aaron stretcheth out his hand and the second plague frogs come out of the waters over all the land 7 The Magicians doe the like 8 Pharaoh sueth to Moses 12 And Moses by praier removeth the frogs away 15 Pharaohs heart is hardned 16 The third plague dust is turned into lice on man and beast 18 The magicians could not doe so yet Pharaoh is hardned 20 God threatneth the fourth plague swarmes of flies upon the Egyptians 22 exempting Israel in Goshen 24 The land is corrupted with the swarmes 25 Pharaoh inclineth to let the people goe 30 Moses by praier removeth the swarmes away 32 Pharaoh is bardned againe AND Iehovah said unto Moses Goe in unto Pharaoh and say unto him thus saith Iehovah send away my people that they may serve me And if thou refuse to send them away behold I smite all thy border with frogs And the river shall abundantly bring forth frogs and they shall come up and enter into thy house and into thy bedchamber and upon thy bed and into the house of thy servants and upon thy people and into thy ovens and into thy troughs of dough And the frogs shall come up upon thee and upon thy people and upon all thy servants And Iehovah sayd unto Moses Say unto Aaron stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streames over the rivers and over the ponds cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt And the Magicians did so with their inchantments and caused frogges to come up upon the land of Egypt And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said Intreat ye Iehovah that he may take the frogs from me and from my people and I will send away the people that they may sacrifice unto Iehovah And Moses said unto Pharaoh Glorie over me when I shall intreat for thee and for thy servants and for thy people to cut off the frogs from thee and from thy houses onely in the river they shall remaine And he said to morrow and he said be it according to thy word that thou maist know that there is none like Iehovah our God And the frogs shall depart from thee and from thy houses and from thy servants and from thy people onely in the river they shall remaine And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh and Moses cryed unto Iehovah because of the frogs which he had put upon Pharaoh And Iehovah did according to the word of Moses and the frogs dyed out of the houses out of the villages and out of the fields And they gathered them together upon heapes and the land stanke And Pharaoh saw that there was a breathing and he made his heart heavy and hearkened not unto them euen as Iehovah had spoken And Iehovah sayd unto Moses Say unto Aaron stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land and it shall be turned to lice in all the land of Egypt And they did so and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of the land and there were lice on man and on beast all the dust of the land was lice in all the land of Egypt And the Magicians did so with their inchantments to bring forth lice but they could not and there were lice on man and on beast And the Magicians sayd unto Pharaoh This is the finger of God and Pharaohs heart waxed strong and he hearkned not unto them even as Iehovah had spoken And Iehovah said unto Moses Rise up earely in the morning stand before Pharaoh lo◠〈◊〉 commeth forth to the waters and say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him thus saith Iehovah Send away my people that they may serve mee Else if thou wilt not send away my people behold I will send a mixed swarme upon thee and upon thy servants and upon thy people and into thy houses and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of the mixed swarme and also the ground where on they art And I will marvellously sever in that day the land of Go 〈…〉 upon which my people standethy that there shall 〈◊〉 mixed 〈◊〉 there to th◠〈◊〉 maist 〈…〉 that I am Iehovah in the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 And I will put a 〈◊〉 de 〈…〉 people and 〈◊〉 by people 〈…〉 all 〈…〉 be And Iehova◠did 〈…〉 there came a heavie 〈…〉 I the house of Pharaoh and the house of 〈…〉 into all the land of Egypt 〈◊〉 land was corrupted by reason 〈…〉 Pharaoh 〈…〉 and sayd 〈…〉 the land And Moses said 〈…〉 to doe 〈…〉 shall 〈…〉 shall 〈…〉 of the Egypt 〈…〉 〈…〉 not 〈◊〉 us We will goe three dayes
make the holy Anointing oile 26 and what thingâ— should be anointed with it 32 Other men may not use it or make the 〈◊〉 34. The composition and making of the Incense 36 and use thereof 37 Men may not make the like for themselves ANd thou shalt make an altar an incense altar of incense of Shittim wood shalt thou make it A cubit 〈…〉 the length thereof and a cubit the breâ—â—â— thereof fouresqure shall it be and two 〈◊〉 the height thereof the hornes thereof shall be of the same And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold the roofe thereof and the walls thereof round-about and the hornes thereof and thou shalt make unto it a crowne of gold round about And two rings of gold shalt thou make to it under the crowne of it by the two ribbes thereof upon the two sides of it shalt thou make them and they shall be for places for the barres to beare it withall And thou shalt make the â—â—rres of Shittim wood and shalt overlay them with gold And thou shalt put it before the veile which is by the Arke of the Testimony before the Covering-mercy-seat which is over the Testimony where I will meet with thee And Aaron shall burne thereon incense of sweet-spices every morning when he dresseth the lamps he shall burne it And when Aaron causeth the lampes to ascend betweene the two evenings he shall burne it a continuall incense before Iehovah throughout your generations Ye shall not offer thereon strange incense or burnt-offring or meat-offring and drinke-offring yee shall not poure out thereon And Aaron shall make-atonement upon the hornes of it once in the yeere with the blood of the sinne offring of atonements once in the yeere shall hee make atonement upon it throughout your generations it is holyes unto Iehovah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Iâ—hovah spake unto Moses saying When thou takest the Sum of the Sonnes of Israel by those that are to bee numbred of them then shall they give every man the ransome of his soule unto Iehovah when thou numbrest them that there be no plague amongst them when thou numbrest them This they shall give every one that passeth among them that are numbred halfe a shekell by the shekell of the Sanctuary the shekell is twenty gerahs an halfe shekell shall be an heave-offring to Iehovah Every one that passeth among them that are numbred from twenty yeeres old and above hee shall give the heave-offring of Iehovah The rich shall not give-more and the poore shall not give-lesse then halfe a shekell in giving the heave-offring of Iehovah to make atonement for your soules And thou shalt take the silver of the atonements of the sons of Israel and shalt give it for the service of the Tent of the congregation and it shall be for a memoriall for the Sonnes of Israel before Iehovah to make atonement for your soules And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Thou shalt also make a Layer of brasse and his foot of brasse to wash and thou shalt put it betweene the Tent of the congregation and the altar and thou shalt put water there in And AaroÌ„ his sons shal wash therefrom their hands and their feet When they goe into the Tent of the congregation they shall wash with water that they dye not or when they come-neere to the altar to minister to burn the Fire offring unto Iehovah And they shall wash their hands and their feet that they dye not and it â—â—â—ill be unto them a statute for ever to him and to his feed throughout their generations And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Thou also take unto thee the chiefe of spices of pure Myrrh five hundred shekels and of sweet Cinamon the halfe thereof two hundred and fifty and of sweet Calamus two hundred and fifty And of Cassia five hundred by the shekell of the Sanctuary and of oyle olive an Hin And thou shalt make it an oyle of holy anointing a compound-ointment compounded after the worke of the Apothecary it shall be an oyle of holy anointing And thou shalt anoint therewith the Tent of the congregation and the Arke of the Testimony And the Table and all the vessels thereof and the Candlestick and the vessels thereof and the Altar of Intense And the altar of burnt-offring and all the vessels thereof and the Laver and the foot thereof And thou shalt sanctifie them and they shall bee holy of holies whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sonnes and sanctifie them to minister-in-the-priest-office unto me And thou shalt speake unto the Sonnes of Israel saying This shall be an oyle of holy anointing unto me throughout your generations Vpon mans flesh it shall not be poured and after the composition of it yee shall not 〈…〉 ke like it holinesse it is holinesse shall it be unto you Any man that shall compoundan-ointment like it or that shall put thereof upon a stranger he shall even bee cut-off from his peoples And Iehovah said unto Moses Take unto thee sweet-spices Stacte and Onycha and Galbanum sweet-spices and pure frankincense there shall be one alone with another alone And thou shalt make it an incense a confection the worke of the Apothecary salted pure holy And thou shalt beat of it pounding-â—â—-small and shalt put of it before the Testimony in the Tent of the congregation where I will meet with thee holy of Holies shall it be unto you And the incense which thou shalt make after the composition of it ye shall not make to your selves it shall be holinesse unto thee for Iehovah Any man that shall make like unto it to smell thereto shall even be cut-off from his peoples Annotations AN incense altar of incense or a perfumatorie a perfuming place of perfume where odours were burned daily and resolved into fume or smoke In the making it is called onely an altar of incense Exod. 37. 25. and so the Greeke translateth it here But because an Altar in Hebrew Mizbeach hath the name of slaine-sacrifices which were offred thereon and upon this there was no such service therefore it is called for distinction sake Miktar a Perfumatory or Incense altar The Chaldee expoundeth it Thou shalt make an Altar to offer upon it incense of sweet-spices Shittim Greeke incorruptible wood see Exod. 25. 5. Vers. 2. hornes sharpe high places in the foure corners see the notes on Exodus 27. 1. 2. c. Vers. 3. gold whereupon it was called the golden altar Num. 4. 11. Revel 8. 3. as the other covered with brasse was the brazen altar Exodus 38. 30. Of the matter underneath it is sometime called the altar of wood as in Ezek. 41. 22. where the measures of it prophesied to bee under the Gospell are larger then these under the Law For this was but one cubit long that two this two cubits high that three Because the service of God by Christs comming should bee inlarged from East to West Gods name should be
that they dye not or and let them not dye in their uncleannesse that is as Chazkuni expoundeth it 〈◊〉 their uncleannesse meaning both these figurative pollutions of issues lepries and the like as also their sinnes especially idolatry and corruptions of religion for which the Prophets often reproved the people under this name of pollution or uncleannesse and making the Lords Sanctuarie uncleane as Ierm 2. 23. and 7. 30. Ezek. 5. 11. and 14. 11. and 22. 3. 4. and 37. 23. CHAP. XVI 1 Moses is taught how to direct the high Priest for to doe his service on Atonement day 3 with what sacrifices he must come into the Holy-place 4 and with what garments 6 The bullocke for the Sin of the Priest himselfe 7 The two goats for the people on which lots were cast for the one to be killed and the other sent away 11 The killing of the high Priests bullocke 12. The burning of incense in the most holy 15 The killing of the goat for the people sprinkling of his blood 16 The clensing of the most holy place 18 and of the holy 20 The sending away of the scape-goat 29 The yeerly â—ast on expiation day the tenth of the seventh moneth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ANd Iehovah spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they offred before Iehovah and dyed And Iehovah said unto Moses Speake unto Aaron thy brother that he come not at all time into the Holy place within the veile before the Covering-mercie-seat which is upon the arke that hee dye not for in the cloud I will appear upon the Covering-mercie-seat With this shall Aaron come into the holy place with a bullock a yongling of the herd for a sin offring and a ram for a Burnt-offring He shall put-on an holy linnen Coat linnen Breeches shall be upon his flesh and with a linnen Girdle shall he be girded and with a linnen Miter shall he be attired they are garments of holines and he shall wash his flesh in water and put them-on And hee shall take of the Congregation of the sons of Israel two goat-bucks of the goats for a Sinne offring and one ram for a Burnt-offring And Aaron shall offer the bullocke of the Sinne offring which is for himselfe and shall make-atonement for himselfe and for his house And he shall take the two goat-bucks and present them before Iehovah at the doore of the Tent of the congregation And Aaron shall give lots upon the two goat-bucks one lot for Iehovah and one lot for the scape-goat And Aaron shall bring neer the goat-buck that upon which the lot for Iehovah did ascend and he shall make him a Sin offring But the goat-bucke that upon which the lot for the Scape-goat did ascend shalâ— bee presented alive before Iehovah to make-atonement with him to send away him for a Scape-goat into the Wildernesse And Aaron shall bring-neere the bullock of the Sinne offring which is for himselfe and shall make atonement for himselfe and for his house and shall kill the bullocke of the sin-offring which is for himselfe And hee shall take a censer full of coales of fire from off the altar before Iehovah and his hands full of incense of sweet spices beaten-small and he shall bring it within the veil And he shall put the incense upon the fire before Iehovah that the cloud of the incense may cover the Covering-mercie-seat which is upon the testimonie that he dye not And he shall take of the blood of the bullock and shall sprinkle with his finger upon the Covering-mercie-seat eastward and before the Covering-mercie-seat hee shall sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times And he shall kill the goat-buck of the Sinne-offring which is for the people and bring his blood within the veile and shall doe with his blood as hee did with the blood of the bullock and sprinkle it upon the Covering-mercie-seat and before the Covering-mercie-seat And he shall make-atonement for the Holy place because of the uncleannesses of the sonnes of Israel and because of their trespasses and aâ—l their sinnes and so shall he do for the tent of the congregation that dwelleth with them in the middest of their uncleaÌ„nesses And there shal not be any man in the Tent of the congregation when he goeth in to make-atonement in the Holy place untill he come-out and he have made atonement for himselfe and for his house and for all the Church of Israel And hee shall goe-out unto the Altar which is before Iehovah and make-atonement for it and shall take of the blood of the bullocke and of the blood of the goat-bucke and put it upon the hornes of the altar round-about And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times and shall clense it and sanctifie it from the uncleannesses of the sonnes of Israel And hee shall make an end of making-atonement for the Holy place and the Tent of the Congregation and the Altar and hee shall bring neere the goat bucke that is alive And Aaron shall impose both his hands upoÌ„ the head of the live goatbuck and shal confesse over him all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their trespasses and all their sinnes and shall put them upon the head of the goat-bucke and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wildernesse And the goat-bucke shall beare upon him all their iniquities unto a land of separation and he shal send away the goat-bucke into the wildernesse And Aaron shall come into the Tent of the congregation and shall put off the linnen garmeÌ„ts which he did put on when he went into the Holy place and shall leave them there And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place and shall put-on his garments and he shall come forth and shall make his burnt offring and the burnt-offring of the people and make-atonement for himselfe and for the people And the fat of the Sin offring he shall burne upon the altar And hee that sent away the goat-bucke for the Scape-goat shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water and afterward he shall come into the campe And the bullocke for the Sin offring and the goat-bucke for the Sin-offring whose blood was brought in to make-atonement in the Holy place hee shall carie-forth without the campe and they shall burne in fire their skins and their flesh and their dung And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water and afterward hee shall come into the campe And this shall bee to you a statute for ever in the seventh moneth in the tenth day of the moneth yee shall afflict your soules and shall not doe any worke the home-borne or the stranger that sojourneth among you For in this day hee shall make-atonement for you to clense you from all your sinnes before Iehovah shal ye be clensed A sabbath of sabbathisme shall it be unto
Thus pollution passed from one thing to another and from that other to third whereby God figured the contagioness no spreading abroad and infecting where it goeth leaving uncleannesse till the end of that day and beginning of a new then washing our selves by repentance and faith in the bloud of Christ we are cleane For we are buried with him by baptisme into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead unto the glory of the father even so wee also 〈◊〉 walke in newnesse of life Rom. 6. 4. CHAP. XX. 1 The children of Israel come to Zin where Marie dieth 2 They murmure for want of water 7 The Lord biddeth Moses speake to the Rocke and it should give forth water 11 Moses smiâ—elt the Rocke and water commeth out 12 The Loraâ— angry with Moses and Aaron for their unbeleefe 14 Moses at Kadesh desireth passage thorow Edom which is denied him 22 At mount Hor Aaron resigneth his place to Eleazar his sonne and dieth ANd the sons of Israel even the whole congregation came into the wildernesse of Zin in the first moneth and the people abode in Kadesh and Marie died there and was buried there And there was no water for the congregation and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron And the people contended with Moses and they said saying And oh that we had given up the ghost when our brethren gave up the ghost before Iehovah And why have ye brought the Church of Iehovah into this wildernesse to die there we and our cattell And why have ye made us to come up out of Egypt to bring us in unto this evill place it is no place of seed or of figs or vines or of pomegranates neither is there any water to drinke And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the church unto the doore of the Tent of the Congregation and they fell upon their faces and the glorie of Iehovah appeared unto them And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Take the rod and gather together the Congregation thou and Aaron thy brother and speake ye unto the Rocke before their eyes and it shall give forth his water and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the Rocke and thou shalt give the congregation and their cattell drink And Moses took the rod from before Iehovah as he commanded him And Moses and Aaron gathered together the Church before the Rocke and he said unto them Heare now ye rebels shall we bring forth water for you out of this rock And Moses lifted up his hand and he smote the Rocke with his rod twice and much water came out and the Congregation dranke and their cattell And Iehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron Because ye beleeved not in me to sanctifie me in the eyes of the sonnes of Israel therefore ye shall not bring this Church into the land w ch I have given them This is the water of Meribah because the sonnes of Israel contended with Iehovah and hee was sanctified in them And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of EdoÌ„ Thus saith thy brother Israel Thou knowest all the travell that hath found us And our fathers went downe into Egypt and we have dwelt in Egypt many dayes and the Egyptians did evill to us and to our fathers And we cried out unto Iehovah and he heard our voice and sent an Angell and hath brought us forth out of Egypt and behold we are in Kadesh a citie in the utterrmost of thy border Let us passe I pray thee thorow thy countrey we will not passe thorow the fields or thorow the vine-yards neither will we drinke of the water of the well we will goe by the kings way wee will not turne aside to the right hand or to the left untill we have passed thy border And Edom said unto him Thou shalt not passe thorow mee lest I come out against thee with the sword And the sonnes of Israel said unto him We will goe up by the high-way and if we drinkeÌ„ of thy water I and my cattell then I will give the price of it onely without doing any thing else I will passe thorow on my feet And he said Thou shalt not passe thorow And Edom came out against him with much people and with a strong hand And Edom refused to give Israel to passe thorow his border and Israel turned aside from him And they journeyed froÌ„ Kadesh the sons of Israel even the whole congregation came unto mount Hor. And Iehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron in mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom saying Aaron shal be gathered unto his peoples for he shal not enter into the land which I have given unto the sonnes of Israel because ye rebelled against my mouth at the water of Meribah Take Aaron and Eleazar his son and bring them up unto mount Hor. And strip Aaron of his garments and put them upon Eleazar his son and Aaron shall be gathered and shall die there And Moses did as Iehovah commanded and they went up into mount Hor in the eyes of all the congregation And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them upon Eleazar his son and Aaron died there in the top of the mountaine and Moses and Eleazar came downe from the mountaine And all the congregation saw that Aaron had given up the ghost and they wept for Aaron thirtie dayes even all the house of Israel Annotations THe whole Congregation to wit of the next generation of the Israelites when their fathers according to the judgement threatned in Num. 14. 29. c. were for the most part now dead in the wildernesse as appeareth by Deut. 2. 14 15. Zin or Tsin whereof see the notes on Num. 23. 21. Betweene Hazeroth mentioned in Num. 12. 16. and this place in Zin where now they camped there were eighteene other stations or resting places whither the Israelites had come Num. 33. 18. 36. the first moneth to wit of the fortieth yeare after they were come out of Egypt as appeareth by Num. 33. 38. compared with the 28. verse of this chapter and Deut. 2. 1. 7. So this was the last yeare of Israels travel in the wildernesse and from the sending of the Spies Num. 23. unto this time was about 38 yeares Deut. 〈◊〉 22. 23. and 2. 14. In all which space we see how few things are recorded concerning Israel and the things that are mentioned are partly their murmurings rebellions by which they provoked God for which they were punished partly the means of grace reconciliation and sanctification tought them of the Lord to be obtained by Iesus Christ figured by the sacrifices and ordinances which Moses shewed them that it might appeare that where sinne abounded grace did much more abound Rom. 5. 20. abode in Kadesh about foure moneths they stayed here theÌ„ removing to mount Hor there Aaron died the first day of the fift moneth Num. 33. 38. This Kadesh which the Chaldee nameth
Rekam was either another wildernesse or another place in the wildernesse than that from which the spies were sent Num. 13. 26. called Kadesh barnea Deu. 1. 19. Chazkuni here saith This is not the Kadesh whereof it is said and ye abode in Kadesh many dayes Deut. 1. 46. for that Kadesh is El-Pharan Gen. 14. 6. and is called Kadesh-barnea and from thence the spies were sent but this Kadesh in Num. 20. is in the wildernesse of Zin in the border of the land of Edom. After the rebellion of the Spies God sent the people backe againe thorow the wildernesse towards the red Sea Num. 14. 25. where they might renew the memoriall of their baptisme 1 Cor. 10. 2. and from Ezion gaber w ch is a port on the shore of theÌ„ red sea 1 Kin. 9. 26. they removed next to this Kadesh Num. 33. 36. So Iephthah saith Israel walked thorow the wildernes unto the red sea came to Kadesh Iudg. 11. 16 Marie Hebr. Mirjam in Greeke Mariam she was sister to Moses and Aaron and a Prophetesse by whom God guided the Israelites in their travels as it is written I sent before thee Moses Aaron and Marie Mic. 6. 4. Of her see Exod. 15. 20. Num. 1. 2. In this fortieth yeare of Israels travell God tooke from them by death Marie their Prophetesse in the first moneth Aaron their Priest in the fift moneth Num. 33. 38. and Moses their King in the end of the yeare Deut. 1. 3. and 34. 5. When these three ministers of the Law were deceased Iesus the sonne of Nun a figure of Iesus the Ionne of God bringeth them into the promised land Ios. 1. 1. 2. c. so after the abrogating of the Law our Lord Iesus Christ bringeth us into the kingdome of God Mar. 1. 15. Rom. 7. 4 5. 6. Dan. 9. 24. Vers. 2. there was no water In the first yeare when they were come out of Egypt to Rephidim in the wildernesse they wanted water Exod. 17. 1. and in this last the fortieth yeare they wanted water againe here God tried the children as he had done the Fathers and they also rebelled against him And many things were alike in both places That Rephidim was the tenth encamping place or station from Egypt this in Kades was the tenth encamping place before they entred Canaan as by their rehearsall of their journeyes in Num. 33. is to be seene There the people in their thirst in stead of praying unto God contended with Moses and murmured for that hee had brought them out of Egypt Exod. 17. 2 3. here they doe the same vers 3 4. There Moses cried unto the Lord for the outrage of the people Exod. 17. 4. here Moses and Aaron fall downe before the Lord v. 6. There God promised and gave them water out of the Rocke Exod. 17. 6. here he doth likewise v. 8. There God willed Moses to take his rod here also he commandeth him Take the rod. There the Lord promised to stand before Moses Exod. 17. 6. here his glory appeareth unto him and Aaron v. 6. There Moses by commandement smiting the Rocke with his rod waters came out of it here hee smiting the Rocke without commandement waters came out There the place was named Meribah or Contention Exod. 17. 7. here the place is named Meribah v. 13. That was the peoples sixt rebellion after they were come out of Egypt as is noted on Num. 14. 22. this was their sixt rebellion after they were come from mount Sinai if wee except the private murmuring of Mary and Aaron against Moses Num. 12. For the first was at Taberab Num. 11. 1 3. the next at Kibroth haitaavah Num. 11. 24. then in the wildernesse of Pharan Num. 14. 1 2. after that followed the rebellion of Korah and his company Num. 16. and after it of all the congregation for the death of those rebels Num. 16. 41. now the sixt is in Kadesh Vers. 3. contended chode with bitter and reproachfull words which the Greeke translateth reviled see Exod. 17. 2. And oh or And would God The word And sheweth the passion of minde out of which they spake abruptly see the notes on Gen. 27. 28. and Num. 11. 29. wee had given up the ghost in Chaldee wee had and in Greeke we had perished in the perdition of our brethren before the Lord whereby they seeme specially to meane the pestilence the last plague wherewith their brethren died Num. 16. 49. which pest above other judgements commeth most immediatly from the hand of God as David acknowledgeth 2 Sam. 24. 14 15. And this evill they wished as being easier than to perish with hunger or thirst as the Prophet also complaineth They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slaine with hunger for these pine away stricken thorow for the fruits of the field Lam. 4. 9. Wherefore they here use the word giving up or breathing out the ghost which seemeth to meane a more easie kinde of death than that which is by force of sword or by hunger or thirst or other like violent meanes So the Hebrewes explaine giving up the ghost to be a death without paine or long sicknesse Vers. 4. to die there understand that we should die there with thirst the Greeke translateth to bill us and our children which words they spake in Exod. 17. 3. Vers. 5. of seed to sow seed in or to plant fig-trees vines c. for the wildernesse was a land of desarts of pits a land of drought and of the shadow of death a land that no man passed thorow and where no man dwelt Ier. 2. 6. Otherwise had there beene commodiousnesse of place the Israelites might have sowen and reaped planted and gathered fruits in those 38 yeares which they abode therein Deu. 2. 14. Vers. 6. from the presence or from the face for feare of them and because of their outrage so in Rev. 12. 14. Psal. 3. 1. fell on their faces in prayer unto God whose glory dwelled in that Sanctuarie so in Exod. 17. 4. Moses crâ—ed unto the LORD See Num. 16. 4. 45. appeared in the cloud as Num. 12. 5. a signe that he heard their prayer and would save them see Num. 14. 10. and 16. 19. 42. Vers. 8. Take the rod in Greeke Take thy rod so God spake before in Exod. 17. 5. but here some gather from verse 9. that it was the rod of Aaron which had budded and was laid up before the Testimony Num. 17. 10. Chazkuni saith This was Aarons rod for loe it is here written in verse 9. And Moses tooke the rod from before the LORD and this was the rod of Aaron as it is written in Num. 17. 10. Bring Aarons rod againâ— before the Testimonie to be kept for a signe against the sonnes of rebellion and forasmuch as Aarons rod was a signe against the sonnes of rebellion hereupon Moses said in verse 10. Heare now ye rebels Howbeit Moses rod which is also called the rod of
God Exod. 4. 20. and 17. 9. might be kept also in the Sanctuary and after in verse 11. it is said Moses smote the rocke with his rod. speake ye unto the Rocke He saith not smite the rocke yet in verse 11. Moses smote the rocke and in vers 10. he spake to the people but it is not said that he spake to the rocke as here he was commanded Some others thinke that Gods intendment in bidding him Take the rod was to smite the Rocke with it and that he sinned not in smiting it but in unbeleefe for which he is blamed in vers 12. it shall give forth his water or the waters of it this promise of God was that whereon the faith of Moses and Aaron should have rested thou shalt bring forth God was he that brought forth and gave water to the people as is often mentioned to his glory He clave the Rockes in the wildernesse and gave drinke as out of the great deepes and brought forth streames out of the Rocke c. Psal. 78. 15 16. So in Psal. 105. 41. and 114. 8. Deut. 8. 15. Nehem. 9. 15 20. But that worke is here ascribed to Moses ministerially for that the waters should come out at his speaking So in other workes of grace the Ministers of the Word are called Saviours Obad. vers 21 for in the faithfull performance of their office they both save themselves and those that heare them 1 Tim. 4 16. Vers. 9. from before Jehovah that is out of the Tabernacle for so the phrase importeth as in Num. 17. 7. Exod. 16. 33 34. Vers. 10. Heare now ye rebels As here he speaketh to the people who was bidden speake to the Rocke vers 8. so the manner of his speech sheweth great passion of minde more than at other times and the Scripture noteth that now the people had bitterly provoked his spirit so that he spake unadvisedly uttering his anger with his lips Psal. 106. 33. shall we bring forth water a speech of doubting and unbeleefe both in Moses and Aaron as in vers 12. God blameth them because they beleeved not in him So before when Moses said Shall the flockes and the herds be slaine for them c. he was blamed with this answer Is the Lords hand waxed short Numb 11. 22 23. Moses was sore moved against this latter generation of Israelites who had seene so many miracles and their fathers perished for rebellion and yet they were not bettered hee might feare lest for their sinning like their fathers the Lord would leave them as he after speaketh in Numb 32. 14 15. Vers. 11. lifted up his hand another signe of indignation being joyned with smiting twice the doubling of his stroke shewed also the heat of his anger Sol. Iarchi on this place conjectureth that 〈◊〉 smote it twice because at first it brought forth bâ—â— drops of water because God had not bidden him smite it but speake unto it much water or many waters He clave the rockes in the wilderrasse and gave drinke as out of the great deeps Psal. 78. 15. The unbeleefe of man maketh not the faith of God without effect Rom. 3. 3. Moses and Aaron beleeved not God to sanctifie him vers 12. yet he faithfully kept his promise and sanctified himselfe vers 13. the Congregation dranke Thus the Lord know his people in the wildernesse in the land of droughts Hos. 13. 5. And they thirsted not when be led them thorow the desarts he caused the waters to flow out of the rockes for them he clave the rockes 〈…〉 so and the waters gushed out Esai 48. 21. The 〈◊〉 out of the Rocke besides the refreshing which it gave unto their bodies was also a spirituall 〈◊〉 from that spirituall Rock Christ 1 Cor. 10. 4. who being smitten for our transgressions Esai 53. with the rod of the Law which worketh wrath Rom. 4. 15. from him proceedeth the living water wherewith the Israel of God may quench their thirst for ever John 4. 10 14. For who so beleeveth in him out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water even the waters of the holy Ghost Ioh. 7. 38 39. To these waters every one that thirsteth is called to come freely Esai 55. 1. Rev. 22. 17. their cattell that water which was both a naturall and spirituall refreshing to the people is given also to the beasts for their naturall thirst because the signes and seales of Gods grace are such in respect of the use of them to those unto whom they are sanctified of God for that purpose So the waters of Iordan were sanctified for Baptisme unto repentant and beleeving sinners Matth. 3. 6. which out of that use were common waters And now not only the Israelites cattell but the wilde beasts also of the wildernesse had benefit by this mercy of God to his people whereunto the Lord hath reference when he saith by his Prophet The beast of the field shall honour me the dragons and the owles because I give waters in the wildernesse rivers in the desart to give drinke to my people my chosen Esai 43. 20. Vers. 12. ye beleeved not in me the Chaldee expoundeth it ye beleeved not in my word Thus unbeleefe was here the chiefe sinne and cause of other sinnes as before in the people Numb 14. so here in Moses and Aaron who were 〈◊〉 partners in the transgression And this their sinne is called a rebellion against the mouth of the Lord Numb 27. 14. and a transgression Deut. 32. 51. which word as R. Menachem here noteth implieth salfhood as in Lev. 6. 2. it is joyned with false deniall and the Apostle saith Hee that beleeveth not God hath made him a lier 1 Ioh. 5. 10. to sanctifie me inwardly in the heart by faith outwardly by obedience to doe that which I commanded and by both to ascribe unto mee the glory of my truth and power So when it is said Sanctifie the Lord of hosts Esai 8. 13. the Apostle expoundeth it Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts 1 Pet. 3. 15. in the eyes the Greeke translateth it before the sons of Israel This seemeth to be the reason of Gods severity at this time against Moses and Aaron more than before when Moses bewrayed also his unbeleefe in Num. 11. 21 22 23. because he now publiquely dishonoured God before all the people which did aggravate the sin whereas the former time he did it not in their eyes but in private before the Lord. therefore Chazkuni observeth that this word implieth an oath Neither indeed could Moses repentance or prayer get this sentence to be reversed for when the Lord hath sworne he will not repent Psal. 110. 4. 〈◊〉 ye shall not bring This chastisement was grievous unto Moses so that he besought the Lord that he might goe over and see the good land but the Lord was wroth with him for the peoples sakes and would not heare him Deut. 3. 23 26. And as God here spake so it came to passe for Aaron died in
mount Hor Numb 20. 24 28. and Moses on mount Nebo after he had seene the land with his eyes but might not goe over thither Deut. 34. The Psalmist saith Thou wast unto them a God that forgiveth and taking vengeance on their practises Psal. 99. 8. Moses the Minister of the Law though he guided Israel thorow the wildernesse to the borders of the promised land yet could not bring the people thereinto but Iesus or Iosua his successour gave them the possession of it to signifie that the Law which worketh wrath Rom. 4. 15. and the workes thereof by which no flesh shall be justified Gal. 2. 16. cannot bring us into the kingdom of God but Iesus Christ who hath loved us and given himselfe for us giveth us by faith the inheritance of the heavenly kingdome Rom. 4. 24 25. and 5. 1 2 c. Gal. 2. 16. and 3. 13 14 c. Vers. 13. of Meribah that is of Contention or Strife which the Greeke translateth of Contradiction so called for a memoriall of their sinne and for a warning to ages following not to do the like whereupon it is said by David Harden not your heart as in Meribah Psalm 95. 8. The same name was given to the former place in Rephidim Exod. 17. 7. To distinguish betweene them the Scripture calleth this Meribah of Kadesh in the wildernesse of Zin Deut. 32. 51. contended with Iehovah in that they contended with Moses vers 3. it is accounted as contention against the Lord himselfe as he told them before in Exod. 16. 8. The Greeke translateth reviled before the Lord. he was sanctified or he sanctified himselfe in them Though Moses and Aaron sanctified him not by faith and obedience yet was he sanctified among the people by the worke of his grace in giving waters for their thirst Or he was sanctified in them that is in Moses and Aaron as Targum Ionathan explaineth it for by punishing their rebellion he sanctified him-selfe in them as it is written That the heathen may know me when I shall be sanctified in thee O Gog before their eyes where it is understood of punishment as it followeth And I will plead against him with postilence and with bloud c. thus will I magnifie my selfe and sanctifie my selfe and I will be knowne in the eyes of many nations Ezek. 38. 16 22 23. See also the Annotations on Levit. 10. 3. And thus â—ol Iarchi expoundeth it in them for Moses and Aaron died because of them for when the holy blessed God doth judgement c. he sanctifieth him-selfe before his creatures and so it is said Fearefull art thou ô God out of thy Sanctuaries Psalm 68. 36. Vers. 14. Edom the Edomites the posterity of Esais who was surnamed Edom Gen. 25. 30. and 36. 1. This message which Moses sent unto Edom and all things about it following were done by the direction and word of God as appeareth by Deut 2. 1 2 4 c. 〈◊〉 thy brother Israel so the whole nation is called because Iakob whose name was called Israel Gen. â—2 28. was naturall brother to Esau and this title of brotherhood continued long after as in O 〈◊〉 vers 10 〈◊〉 Also the Law saith Thou shalt not abhorre an Edomite for he is thy brother Deut. 23. 7◠〈…〉 travell that hath found us the wearisome molestation that hath befallen us See the like phrase in Exod. 18. 8. Nehem. 9. 32. Vers. 15. into Aegypt The history hereof is in Gen. 46. dwelt Hebr. sitten that is continued in Greeke sojourned Many daies see Exod. 12. 40. Did evill afflicted with rigorous bondage and other cruelty See Exod. 1 c. Vers. 16. We cried out as is recorded in Exod. 2. 23. an Angell This was Christ See Exod. 3. 2. and 14. 19. and 23. 20. with the Annotations Some of the Hebrewes understand it of Moses because the Prophets are called Angels or Messengers as in Iudg. 2. 1. 2 Chron. 36. 15 16. Hag. 1. 13. in Kadesh a citie or by Kadesh to wit in the wildernesse lying neere and having the name of Kadesh the citie Numb 33. 36. The Chaldee here and usually nameth it Rekam Vers. 17. thorow thy country because it was the neerest way therefore when Edom refused to let them goe thorow they turned and passed by the way of the wildernesse of Moab Deut. 2. 8. Iudg. 11. 17 18. the vineyards to rob or make spoile of any mans goods water of the well that is of the wells or of any well the Greeke translateth of thy well Meaning either that they would not drinke without paying for it as in vers 19. or that they would drinke of the rivers which were common not of wells which were private and digged of men for their owne use the kings way that is the high-way which is common for all to passe by vers 19. So againe in Numb 21. 22. Vers. 18. Not passe thorow me that is thorow my country vers 17. as the Chaldee explaineth it thorow my border See the like phrase in Deut. 2. 30. Rom. 15. 28. left I come it is a threatning which the Greeke explaineth otherwise I will come See the Annotations on Gen. 3. 3. with the sword the Chaldee expoundeth it with them that kill with the sword the Greeke in warre It had beene the dutie of Edom to have met their brother Israel with bread and with water in the way as God speaketh of the Moabites Deut. 23. 4. but by this unkindnesse the Lord would have his people to see how all worldly friends and kindred after the flesh will faile them yea and oppose them that their hope and strength may be in him alone Mat. 10. 21 22. Vers. 19. the high way or causey that which before was called the Kings way vers 17. the Greeke here translateth it the mountaine the price Hebr. the sale which both Greeke and Chaldee translate the price This was so commanded of God Ye shall buy meat of them for money that 〈◊〉 may eat and ye shall also buy water of them for money that yee may drinke For Iehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the worke of thine hand Deut. 2. 6 7. without doing anything else Hebr. without a word that is without any thing which the Chaldee explaineth any evill thing or ward Vers. 20. with much people Hebr. with an heavie people which the Chaldee expoundeth a great army The Scripture confirmeth this as that which in 1 King 3. 9. is written an heavie or 〈◊〉 people is in 2 Chro. 1. 10. expounded a great 〈◊〉 This comming out was to resist Israel by force anâ— strong hand for Edom was afraid of them Deut. 2. 4. and trusted not their words Vers. 21. to give that is to suffer or to give Israel leave to passe as the Chaldee expoundeth it Nor withstanding as they went along their coast the Edomites suffred them to buy victuals of them as appeareth by Deut. 2. 28 29. 〈◊〉 aside and went along thorow the wildernesse and compassed
inheritances by the name of Lets as Come up with me into my lot Iudg. 1. 3. And not lands onely but whatsoever befalleth unto men frō the hand of God is called a lot as This is the portion of them that spoile us and the lot of them that rob us Esay 17. 14. and Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter Act. 8. 21. and That they may receive forgivenesse of sins and a lot that is inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith c. Act. 26. 18. The part of the lot that is of the inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 1. 12. So that in the Greek used by the Apostles Cleros a lot and Cleronomia a division by lot is the common name of an inheritance 1 Pet. 5. 3. Ephes. 1. 14. 18. Vers. 56. According to the lot Hebr. At or Vpon the mouth of the lot as the lot whereon the name of the tribe or of the inheritance is written shall speake This lot being of the Lord figured the diversities of gifts in the Church which the Spirit of God divideth to every man severally 〈◊〉 will 1 Cor. 12. 4. 11. as also the dispensation of his graces concerning our heavenly inheritance which the Election onely obtaineth that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of workes but of him that calleth Rom. 11. 7. and 9. 11. Vers. 57. of the Levites who though they had no inheritance in the land vers 62. yet were they to have 48 cities and their suburbs for their habitation Num. 35. which also fell unto them by lot Ios. 21. 4. c. Vers. 58. Korachites or Korhites of Korah the sonne of Izhar the sonne of Kohath the sonne of Levi Num. 16. 1. Korah himselfe died in the rebellion but his sonnes died not Num. 26. 11. therefore they are reckoned here for a familie in the fourth generation from Levi which is one degree further than the other families And whereas in Exod. 6. 16. c. there are reckoned of Gershon two sonnes Libni and Shimei here the familie of the Libnites is mustered but Shimei left out There Kohath hath foure sonnes Amram and Ishar and Hebron and Vzziel here Vzziel is omitted neither is Ishar named but in his sonnes the Korhites Vers. 59. she bare to Levi by she understand Levies wise or Iochebeds mother Sol. Iarchi expoundeth it his wise bare her in Egypt she bare to Amram that is Iochebed Amrams wife who was also his aunt bare to Amram Exo. 6. 20. Marie Hebr. Mirjam she was a prophetesse see Exod. 15. 20. Num. 12. 1. Vers. 60. unto Aaron was borne Here Moses children Gershon and Eliezer are againe omitted see the notes on Num. 3. 38. Vers. 61. and Abihu died and they had no sonnes Num. 3. 4. See the historie in Levit. 10. Vers. 62. 23 thousand who at the former numbring were but 22 thousand Num. 3. 39. So they increased in the wildernesse a thousand males Vers. 65. dying they shall die i. they shall surely die this was threatned for their rebellion refusing to go into the promised land Nū 14. and the fulfilling of Gods judgment is here shewed and Iosoua in Greeke Iesus the son of Naue these two survived because they faithfully followed the Lord Num. 14. 24. 38. See the Annotations there In that all the rest were dead save these two it sheweth that all the 600 thousand men now mustered which should conquer Canaan were a valiant company betweene 20 and 60 yeares of age none being above 60 but Caleb and Iosua and as they were in body so in minde being trained up these 38 yeares in the study of the Law and ordinances of God and beholding his workes having Moses and Aaron for their leaders and Gods good spirit for their instructer Neh. 9. 20. CHAP. XXVII 1 The daughters of Zelophehad sue for an inheritance 5 Moses bringeth their cause before the Lord who granteth their request 8 The Law of inheritances when a man dieth without a son 12 Moses is bidden goe up and see the land and is told of his death for his trespasse 15 He requesteth of the Lord that a man may be set governour in his place 18 The Lord appointeth Iosua to succeed him 22 And Moses by imposition of hands ordaineth him to his office THen came the daughters of Zelophehad the sonne of Hepher the son of Gilead the son of Machir the son of Manasses of the families of Manasses the son of Ioseph and these are the names of his daughters Machlah Noah Hoglah and Milcah and Tirzah And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the Priest and before the Princes and all the congregation at the doore of the Tent of the Congregation saying Our father died in the wildernesse and he was not among the Congregation of them that gathered themselves together against Iehovah in the congregation of Korah but in his sinne he died and hee had no sonnes Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family because he hath no sonne Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father And Moses brought their cause before Iehovah And Iehovah said unto Moses saying The daughters of Zelophehad speake right giving thou shalt give them a possession of an inheritance among the brethren of their father and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to passe unto them And thou shalt speake unto the sonnes of Israel saying If a man die and he have no sonne then ye shall cause his inheritance to passe unto his daughter And if hee have no daughter then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren And if he have no brethren then ye shall give his inheritance unto the brethren of his father And if his father have no brethren then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his familie and he shall inherit it it shal be unto the sonnes of Israel for a statute of judgement as Iehovah commanded Moses And Iehovah said unto Moses Go thou up into this mountaine of Abarim and see the land w ch I have given to the sons of Israel And thou shalt see it and thou also shalt be gathered unto thy peoples as Aaron thy brother was gathered For ye rebelled against my mouth in the wildernesse of Zin in the strife of the congregation to sanctifie me at the water before their eyes that is the water of Meribah of Kadesh in the wildernesse of Zin And Moses spake unto Iehovah saying Let Iehovah the God of the spirits of all flesh set a man over the congregation Which may go out before them and which may go in before them and which may lead them out and which may bring them in that the congregation of Iehovah be not as sheep which have no shepherd And Iehovah said unto Moses Take unto thee Iosua the son of Nun a man in whom is the spirit and lay thine hand upon him And cause
thought of some to be so called of the mutinous assemblies of Korah Dathan Abiram Num. 16. Vers. 26. Tahath in Greeke Kataath signifiing Vnderneath or below Vers. 27. Tarah or Therach in Greeke Tharath Vers. 28. Mithkah in Greeke Matheka by interpretation sweet Vers. 29. Hashmonah in Greeke Aselmona Vers. 30. Moseroth in Greeke Masurouth in English Bonds In Deut. 10. 6. it is called singularly Moserah Vers. 31. Bene Iaakan that is the sons of Iaakan called in Deut. 10. 6. Beeroth Bene Iaakan that is the Wels of the sons of Iaakan though some thinke that was another place Of one Iaakan we reade in 1 Chron. 1. 42. Vers. 32. Horhagidgad that is the hole of Gidgad called also Gudgod in Deut. 10. 7. Vers. 33. Iotbathah in Greeke Etebatha it was a land of rivers of waters named also Iotbath Deut. 10. 7. Vers. 34. Ebronah or Gnabronah not elsewhere mentioned Vers. 35. Ezion-gaber in Greeke Gethsion-gaber mentioned againe in Deut. 2. 8. It was by the red sea where was a place for shipping in Edoms land 1 Kings 9. 26. and 22. 48. Thus Israel had beene brought backe againe towards the red sea as was commanded in Num. 14. 25. Deut. 2. 1. Vers. 36. Zin which is Kadesh or that is Kades w ch the Chaldee calleth Rekam Hither they came in the first moneth of the 40 yeare of their travell and here Marie the Prophetesse the sister of Moses and Aaron died Here againe the people murmured for water which was given them out of a Rocke And at this Kadesh they sent unto Edom for leave to passe thorow his countrey but were denied it Num. 20. See the Annotations there Vers. 37. in the edge by the border of the land Num. 20. 23. the Greeke translateth neere the land of Edom. Vers. 38. at the mouth that is as the Chaldee explaineth it at the word in Greeke by the commandement of the Lord. died there being stript of his Priestly garments which were put upō Eleazar his son and hee died there on mount Hor for his sin committed at the water of Meribah in Kadesh Num 20. 24 26. c. Vers. 40. King of Arad of whom see Num. 21. 1. heard of the comming and sought against Israel and tooke some of them captives but Israel by helpe from God vanquished him Num. 21. 1 2 3. Vers. 41. from mount Hor by the way of the red sea to compasse the land of Edom Num. 21. 4. Zalmonah in Greeke Selmona which seemeth to be so named of Zelem an Image and to be meant of that place where the brazen serpent was set up to heale those that were stung of fiery serpents because they had murmured against God Num. 21. 5 6 c. Vers. 42. Funon or Phunon in Greeke Phinon hereof there is no mention otherwhere Vers. 43. Oboth mentioned in Num. 21. 10. Vers. 44. Ije Abarim that is the heapes of Abarim which Abarim were mountaines vers 47. In the verse following this place is called onely Ijem that is Heapes Vers. 45. Dibon Gad in Greeke Daibon Gad that is Dibon of the Gadites Dibon was the name of an high place and citie wherof see Num. 21. 30. This Dibon was repaired and possessed by the sonnes of Gad Num. 32. 34. and it is so named to distinguish it from another Dibon which was given to Reuben Ios. 13. 15. 17. Vers. 46. Almon or Gnalmon in Greeke Gelmon diblathaim of w ch Diblathaim see Ier. 48. 22. Vers. 47. Before Nebo the name of a mountain where afterward Moses died Deut. 32. 49 50 and 34. 1. 5. Vers. 48. Iordan neere Iericho that part of the river Iordan which is over against Iericho called therefore in Hebrew Iarden of Iericho Vers. 49. Beth Iesimoth which place was allotted to the Reubenites Ios. 13. 15. 20. mentioned also in Ezek. 25. 9. Abel Shittim the Chaldee expoundeth it the plaine of Shittim it seemeth to have the name of the Shittim trees that grew there as Abel Ceramim is the plaine of the Uineyard Iudg. 11. 33. The travels of Israel thorow that great and terrible wildernesse wherein were fierie serpents and scorpions and drought where there was no water Deut. 8. 15. which was a land of desarts of pits a land of drought and of the shadow of death a land that no man passed thorow and where no man dwelt Ier. 2. 6. signified the many troubles and afflictions through which we must enter into the kingdome of God Act. 14. 22. The helpes comforts and deliverances which God gave unto his people in their distresses are examples of his love and mercie towards his who comforteth them in all their tribulation that as the sufferings of Christ abound in them so their consolation also aboundeth in Christ 2 Cor. 1. 45. The punishmēts which God inflicted upon the disobedient who perished in the wildernesse for their sins hapned unto them for ensamples and they are written for our admonitiō upon whom the ends of the world are come 1 Cor. 10. 1 11. Heb. 3. 17 18 19. and 4. 1 2. By the names of their encamping places and histories adjoyned it appeareth how Israel came sometimes into straits and troublesome wayes as at Pi-hahiroth Ex. 14. 2 3. 10. c. at Zalmonah Nū 21. 4 c. sometimes into large and ample roomth as at the plaines of Moab sometimes to places of hunger and thirst as at Rephidim and Kadesh Ex. 16 17. Num. 20. sometimes to places of refreshing as at Elim and Beer Ex. 15. 27. Num. 21. 16. sometimes where they had warres as at Rephidim Kadesh Edrehi Exod. 17. 8. Num. 21. 1. 33. sometimes where they had rest as at mount Sinai Sometimes they went right forward as from Sinai to Kadesh-barnea sometimes they turned backward as from Kadesh barnea to the red Sea Sometimes they came to mountaines as Sinai Shepher Hor Gidgad sometimes to vallies as Tahath c. sometimes to places of bitternesse as Marah sometimes of sweetnesse as Mithkah The sinnes which they committed in the wildernesse were many and great as open idolatry by the Calfe at Horeb Ex. 32. and with Baal-peor Num. 25. unbeleese at Kadesh Num. 14. and afterwards presumptuous boldnesse in the same place murmurings against God sundry times with tempting of Christ as the Apostle speaketh 1 Cor. 10. Contention rebellion against their governors often lusting for flesh to fill their appetite soathing Manna the heavenly food whoredome with the daughters of Moab and sundry the like that this complaint is after made of them How oft did they provoke him in the wildernesse and grieve him in the desart Psal. 78. 40. All sorts of persons sinned against God the multitude of people very often the mixt multitude of strangers among them Num. 11. The Princes as the ten spies Dathan Abiram c. The Levites as Korah and his company Marie the Prophetesse Num. 12. Aaron the Priest with her besides his sin at Horeb Ex. 32. and at the water of
Chaldee do interpret it the Burning a place so called because the people complaining there the fire of the Lord was kindled and consumed some of them See the historie in Num. 11. 1 2 3. Massah in English the tentation and so the Greek and Chaldee translate it A place at Rephidim in the wildernesse before they came to Horeb ten stations from Egypt in the first yeere of their travell where wanting water they tempted God saying Is the Lord amongst us or no and there he gave them water out of the Rocke Exod. 17. See the annotations there and Psal. 95. 8 9. Heb. 3. 8. c. Deut. 6. 16. Kibroth-hattaavah in English the Graves of lust so translated also by the Greeke Here a little from Taberah forementioned they loathed Manna and lusted for flesh God gave them Quailes but they died of a plague 〈◊〉 the flesh was yet betweene their teeth and 〈◊〉 buried there occasioned this name of the 〈◊〉 for a perpetuall memoriall See Num. 11. 4 34. and the annotations there Also Psal. 78. 〈◊〉 31. and 106. 14 15. Vers. 23. Kadesh-barnea where being come thorow the wildernesse of Pharan to the border of the land of Canaan they were commanded of God to goe take possession Then they sent spies who discouraged the people so through want of 〈◊〉 they durst not enter and were for it condem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 40. yeeres wandring in the wildernesse and 〈◊〉 ended their dayes See Numb 13. and 14. 〈◊〉 against the mouth that is against the 〈◊〉 or commandement in Greeke yee disobeyed 〈◊〉 word Vers. 24. that I knew you the Greeke expounds 〈…〉 the day that he was knowne unto you So he 〈…〉 deth with a generall charge of rebellion upon them shewing hereby the impossibility of the law and ministery thereof to bring men unto God for it causeth sinne and wrath to abound as 〈◊〉 4. 15. and 8 3. Gal. 3. 19 22. For besides these 〈…〉 lars they sinned many other times in the 〈…〉 nesse as is noted on Num. 14. 22. and in Psa. 〈◊〉 and 106. Vers. 25. I fell downe in Greeke I prayed Hee 〈…〉 th to speake of their reconciliation to God which was by the prayer of Moses as a mediatour 〈◊〉 figure of Christ by whom and not by our own deserts we have entrance into the kingdome of God Gal. 3. 22. 24. Rom. 3. 20 22. and 5. 1 2 c. as I fell downe to wit at the first as v. 18. or which I fell downe that is which I said before that I fell downe But the Hebrew asher which is sometimes used for as as in Ier. 48. 8. said for to destroy that is said that he would destroy you See the like phrases so expounded in Esay 49. 6. with Acts 13. 47. 1 Chron. 17. 4. with 2 Sam. 7. 5. Matt. 20. 19. with Mark 10. 33 34. Vers. 26. Lord Iehovoh in Greeke Lord Lord in Chaldee Lord God See the annotations on Gen. 15. 2. thy people this respecteth their adoption in Christ and justification 1 Pet. 2. 9 10. inheritance this implyeth their sanctification unto the obedience and service of God by the Spirit See Exod. 34. 9. through thy greatnes in Greek through thy great strength as v. 29. it implyeth also his great goodnesse and therefore is often spoken of his gracious workes for his people 1 Chron. 17. 19. Luke 1 49. Vers. 27. thy servants Hee meaneth Gods oath unto them to multiply their seed and to give them the land for an eternall inheritance as is expressed in this prayer before Exod. 32. 13. So the Greeke addeth here unto whom thou swarest by thy selfe hardnesse the naturall corruption whereby the heart is hardned that it cannot repent and beleeve the word of God from which the two evils following doe flow Rom. 2. 5. Vers. 28. the land that is as the Greeke and Chaldee both explaine the inhabitants of the land This reason is also alleaged in Exod. 32. 12. and Numb 14. 16. CHAP. X. 1 A rehearsall of Gods mercies in renuing the two tables of the Covenant 6 in leading the people forward towards Canaan and continuing the priest-hood after Aarons death 8 in separating the tribe of Levi unto the ministerie 10 in hearkning unto Moses his suit for the people 12 An exhortation unto obedience 14 because of Gods glorie 15 love unto Israel 17 justice towards all 21 his fearefull workes 22 and multiplication of his people AT that time Iehovah said unto mee Hew thee two tables of stone like the first and come up unto me into the mount and thou shalt make thee an Arke of wood And I will write on the tables the words which were on the first tables which thou brakest and thou shalt put them in the Arke And I made an Arke of Shittim wood and hewed two tables of stone like the first went up into the mount and the two tables in my hand And he wrote on the tables according to the first writing the ten words which Iehovah had spoken unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly and Iehovah gave them unto me And I turned my self and came downe from the mount and I put the tables in the Arke which I had made and there they be as Iehovah commanded me And the sonnes of Israel journeyed from Beeroth of the sonnes of Iaakan from Moserah there Aaron dyed and was buried there and Eleazar his sonne administred the Priests office in his stead From thence they journeyed to Gudgodah and from Gudgodah to Iot-bath a land of rivers of waters At that time Iehovah separated the tribe of Levi to beare the Arke of the covenant of Iehovah to stand before Iehovah to minister unto him and to blesse in his name unto this day Therefore Levi hath no part or inheritance with his brethren Iehovah he is his inheritance as Iehovah thy God spake unto him And I stood in the mount according to the former dayes fortie dayes and fortie nights and Iehovah hearkened unto me at that time also Iehovah would not destroy thee And Iehovah said unto me Arise goe in journey before the people that they may goe in and possesse the land which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them And now Israel what doth Iehovah thy God aske of thee but to feare Iehovah thy God to walke in all his waies and to love him and to serve Iehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule To keepe the commandements of Iehovah and his statutes which I command thee this day for good unto thee Behold unto Iehovah thy God belong the heavens and the heavens of heavens the earth and all that therein is Onely in thy fathers Iehovah had a delight to love them and he chose their seed after them even you above all peoples as it is this day Circumcise therefore the super fluous foreskinne of your heart and make not your necke stiffe any more For Iehovah your God
you this day which you shall command your sonnes to observe to doe all the words of this Law For it is not a vaine word for you because it is your life and through this word ye shall prolong your daies upon the land whither yee are going over Iordan to possesse it And Iehovah spake unto Moses in that selfe-same day saying Goe up into this mountaine of Abarim mount Nebo which is in the land of Moab that is over against Iericho and see the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sonnes of Israel for a possession And die in the mount whither thou goest up and be gathered unto thy peoples as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor and was gathered unto his peoples Because ye trespassed against me among the sonnes of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wildernesse of Zin because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the sonnes of Israel Yet thou shalt see the land before thee but thither thou shalt not goe in unto the land which I am giving to the sonnes of Israel GIve eare O heavens to that which I declare and heare O earth what my mouths sayings are Drop downe as doth the raine shall my doctrine distill as deaw so shall my speech divine as on the tender herbe the small raine powres and as upon the grasse the greater showres For I Iehovahs name proclaime abroad O give ye greatnesse unto him our God The Rocke most perfect is his action because his wayes are judgement every one God is most faithfull and iniquity in him is none but just and right is he They on themselves have brought corruptions their spot is not of those that be his sonnes they are a generation which is turnd to perversnesse and to crookednesse Doe ye Iehovah in this wise reward O foolish folke and wanting wise regard thy Father that hath bought thee is not hee hath he not made thee and establisht thee Remember thou the dayes that were of old minde ye the yeeres of ages manifold aske thou thy Father and thee shew will hee thine Elders aske and they will tell it thee When the Most high dealt to the Nations their heritage and severed Adams sonnes the borders of the peoples set he then as number was of Israels children For his folke is Iehovahs portion Iakob the line of his possession Him in a land of wildernesse he found in empty place and howling desart ground about he led him taught him prudency he kept him as the apple of hit eye Like as an Eagle stirreth up her nest she moveth fluttring over her youngest she spreds abroad her wings them taketh soft upon her wings she beareth them aloft So did Iehovah leade him all alone and other strange god with him was there none He made him ride on the earths places hie that he might eat the fields fertilitie he made him also from the rocke to sucke honey and oile out of the flinty rocke Butter of kine milke also of the flocke with fat of Lambs and Rams of Basan stocke and Goats with fat of wheaty kidneies fine and of the Grapes-bloud thou didst drink red wine But Iesurun did wex fat and did kicke thou art wext fat art covered art growne thicke the God which made him then did he forsake and of the Rock which sav'd him light did make With strange gods they to jealousie him mov'd with loathsome idols they his anger prov'd They sacrific'd to devils not to God to gods of whom themselves no knowledge had unto new gods which up but lately came such as your fathers feared not the same The Rocke that thee beg at thou mindest not and God that formed thee thou hast forgot And of his sonnes and daughters then the Lord did see the provocation and abhord And I will hide my face from them said he I will behold what their last end shall be for a most froward generation they children are in whom faith there is none They have me unto jealousie moved with that which is not God haue me stirred to indignation with their idols vaine I them will move to jealousie againe with those which are no folke to indignation I will provoke them with a foolish nation For in mine anger kindled is a fire and to the lowest hell shall burne in ire and shall consume land and fruits of the same and the foundations of the mounts inflame Vpon them I will heape up evill sorrowes upon them I will spend my piercing arrowes They shall be burnt with hunger and devour'd with burning coales and bitter plague out-pour'd and teeth of beasts upon them I will bring with poyson of serpents in dust-creeping Without the sword it shall bereave them quite and from the inmost chambers fearefull fright both the choise young man and the virgin faire the suckling with the man of hoary haire I said I would them into corners drive I would men of their memory deprive Were it not that the wrath of th' enemy I feared lest behave themselves strangely their adversaries should lest they should say our high hand hath done all this and not Iah For they a people whose counsels are gone and understanding in them there is none O that they wise were would this understand that they consider would their latter end How should one make a thousand flee in chace and two make even ten thousand flie apace except their strong Rocke had them sold away iehovah had them shut up to decay For their Rocke is not like our Rocke mighty and judge let be our very enemy For their vine of the vine of Sodom is and of Gomorrahs blasted vine branches their Grapes they be the Grapes of poysned gall the clusters that they have are bitter all Their wine is of the dragons poison fell and of the aspes whose venome is cruell Is not this same laid up in store with mee even sealed up within my treasuree To me belongs vengeance and to repay in time when as their foot shall slide away for day of their calamity is nie and things that come on them come hastily For Iah will to his people doe judgement and for his servants will himselfe repent when he shall see that their strong hand is gone and shut up or remaining there is none And he shall say where doe their gods abide the rocke on whom for safety they relide They which their sacrifices fat devour'd which drank the wine on their oblations powr'd let them arise and shew you helpfull grace let him be unto you an hiding place Behold yee now that I even I am he and God there is not any beside me I kill and quicken wound and whole I make and out of mine hand none away can take For to the heav'ns my hand I lift on hie and say I live unto eternity If that my glittering sword I sharpe doe make and that mine hand on judgement hold doth take unto my foes I render will vengeance and them that hate me I will recompence Mine
Simeon with Reuben in the former blessing thus Let Reuben live and not die and let Simeon be many in number the voice when he praieth as the Chaldee translateth Receive O Lord the praier of Iudah when hee goeth forth to warre This blessing is to bee compared with Iakobs who likeneth Iudah to a Lions whelpe gone up from the prey c. Gen. 49. 9. and it had accomplishment in David who was of Iudah and a fighter of the Lords battels in which hee often praied as his Psalmes testifie Likewise in Abijah and the Iewes against Israel 2 Chron. 13. 14 18. in Asa warring against the Ethiopians 2 Chron. 14. 11 12 13. in Iehosaphat fighting against the Ammonites 2 Chron. 20. 5 6 18. in Ezekias against the Assyrians 2 Chron. 32. 20 21 22. and others But chiefly in Christ the Lion of the tribe of Iudah Revel 5. 5. him God did heare alwaies Ioh. 11. 42. bring thou him the Chaldee addeth in peace and Thargum Ionathan addeth from the battell in peace This had accomplishment as otherwise so in Davids returne to his people and kingdome 2 Sam. 19. 11 15. and Christs returne unto Israel whereof see Rom. 11. 26 31. be enough for him when he fighteth as God taught Davids hands to warre and his fingers to fight Psalme 144. 1. and girded him with strength to battell 2 Sam. 22. 35 40. The Greek translateth judge for him the Chald. execute vengeance for him on them that hate him So in Gen. 49. 8. thine hand Iudah shall bee in the necke of thine enemies be thou for by his owne strength no man shall prevaile 1 Sam. 2. 9. Therefore David often acknowledged God to be his helper Psal. 28. 7. and 40. 17. and 54. 4. and 63. 7. and 118. 7. c. Vers. 8. of Levi or unto Levi that is the tribe or posterity of Levi as in Thargum Ionathan it is said And Moses the Prophet blessed the tribe of Levi and said thy Thummim and thy Vrim by interpretation thy perfections and thy Lights these were mysteries put into the high Priests brest-plate whereof see the Annotations on Exod. 28. 30. so they signifie here the graces and office of the Priesthood which was committed to Aaron and his seed till Christ came who had the Priest-hood for ever after a more excellent order Heb. 6. 20. And the speech here may bee directed unto God who gave these mysteries to the Priest and so the Chald. explaineth it Thummim Vrim thou didst put upon the man that was found holy before thee and Sol. Iarchi saith Hee speaketh as to the Majestie of God Or it may be spoken to the tribe of Levi who had the Vrim and Thummim among them but appropriate to one maÌ„ only who was the high Priest a figure of Christ. with the man understand be with the man or to the man that is they belong to him with him they are and so let them remaine thy gracious saint thy mercifull pious or holy one or of thy holy one which title is given to God himselfe Ier. 3. 12. to Christ Psal. 16. 10. with Act. 13. 35 36 37. and to all godly men Psal. 149. 5. And here referring it to Aaron or to Christ the man thy holy one may meane one thing thy holy man as a man a Prince in Exod. 2. 14. or if wee read it the man of thine holy one it is meant the man of God and in Psal. 106. 16. Aaron is called the Saint of the LORD temptedst or triedst This word is sometime spoken of God as hee tempted Abraham Gen. 22. 1. and the Israelites in the wildernesse Deut. 8. 2 15 16. Sometime of men who are said to have tempted God and Christ Exod. 17. 2. 1 Cor. 10. 9. in Massah or in the temptation a place so called because there Israel tempted God Exod. 17. 7. or with temptation and so it is no propet name contendedst or striveâ—st pleadedst this also is sometime spoken of God whose contending with men is the blaming and punishing of them Esay 49. 25. Iob 10. 2. Ier. 2. 9. sometime of mens contending as Israel did with the Lord at the waters of Meribah or of Contention Numb 20. 13. By reason of this diversuse of these words the understanding of this blessing is also divers thus Thy Thummim and thy Vrim O God be with the man thy gracious Saint Aaron and his seed whom thou temptedst with tentation contendedst with him for his sinne at the waters of Meribah Num. 20. 12 13. Or thy Thummim and thy Vrim O Levi bee with Aaron and his seed the man of thy gracious God whom thou with the other Israelites temptedst in Massah c. Exod. 17. 2. Numb 20. Or thus Thy Thummim and thy Vrim O Levi is with or â—e longs unto the man thy gracious Saint Christ Iesus whom thou temptedst in Massah c. 1 Cor. 10. 9. In this last sense the weaknesse of the Leviticall Priesthood is implied which kept not Vrim and Thummim but lost them at the captivity of Babylon Ezra 2. 63. and it is not knowne that they ever had them more untill by Christ our High Priest after the order of Melchisedek they were restored by the Light and Truth of the Gospell The Chaldee interpreteth it in Aarons or Levies praise Thummim and Vrim thou didst put upon the man or cloathedst with them the man that was found holy before thee whom thou tem ptedst with tentation and hee was perfect thou provedst him at the waters of contention and hee was found faithfull This may seeme not well to accord with the history in Num. 20. touching Aarons person yet the Hebrews as Sol. Iarchi on this place say of the Levites that they murmured not with the other murmurers And of Levi God saith by his Prophet My covenant was with him life and peace and I gave them to him for the feare where with he feared mee c. Mal. 2. 5. And againe They kept his testimonies and the ordinance that hee gave them Psal. 99. 7. The Greeke translateth And of Levi hee said Give yee Levi his Manifest-ones and his Truth that is his Vrim and his Thummim to the holy man whom they tempted in tentation they reviled him at the water of Contradiction This interpretation may well bee applied unto Christ also as before is shewed Vers. 9. who saith or who said of his or unto his father c. I respect him not I see not or looke not upon him The Greeke translateth That saith to his father and to his mother I have not seene or I respect not thee This is meant either of the Priests continuall duty who by the Law if his father mother brother or child did die hee might not mourne for them but carry himselfe as if hee did not respect know or care for them as is said of the High Priest that was anointed and cloathed with the ornaments and had Vrim and Thummim upon his heart for his father or for
words Genes 9. 20. and 13. 8. Man for every one Gen. 10. 5. and 15. 10. for any man Gen. 24. 16. Lev. 21. 9. Men of number i. few Gen. 34. 30. Man Adullamite for Man of Adullam Gen. 38. 1. Man of words c. Exod. 4. 10. Man of warre Exod. 15. 3. Man-slayer with the Cities of refuge Numb 35. 11 c. Man stealer to die Deut. 24. 7. Manasses why so named Gen. 41. 51. Manna described Exod. 16. 14. Num. 11. 7. Manna loathed of Israel Num. 11. 6. and 21. 5. Marah a place Exod. 15. 23. Marie or Miriam Moses sister Exod. 15. 20. her murmuring and leprosie Num. 12. her death Num. 21. 1. Marriage the manner of it among the Iewes Deu. 22. 13. Of marrying the brothers wife Deut. 25. 5 c. Marvellous for unpossible Gen. 18. 14. Marvellously sever Exod. 8. 22. Massah a place of Tentation Exod. 17. 7. Meat-offering the Law sorts and signification thereof Lev. 2. and 6. 14. c. Meats cleane and uncleane with their signification Lev. 11. Deut. 14. The measure of Meat and Drinke-offerings with the sacrifices Num. 15. 4. c. Meribah a place of Contention Exod. 17. 7. Num. 20. 13. Mesopotamia Gen. 24. 10. and 25. 20. Midian Madianites Gen. 25. 2. and 37. 28. Israels conquest over the Madianites Num. 31. Midst for within or in or with Gen. 2. 9. Ex. 39. 3. Deut. 19. 2. Might or able strength what it is Gen. 49. 3. Milke and honey what they signifie Exod. 3. 8. Miter of the high Priest Exod. 28. 39. Mizpah Gen. 31. 49. Mizraim father of the Egyptians Gen. 10. 6. and 12. 10. Moab and Moabites Gen. 19. 37. Israel might not warre against them Deut. 2. 9. c. Moone whereof named Gen. 1. 16. Molech the idoll described Lev. 18. 21. Morijah what place Gen. 22. 2. To Morrow for time to come Gen. 30. 33. Exod. 13. 14. Morning for first times Gen. 49. 27. for opportunity c. Exod. 12. 10. Moses why so named Exod. 2. 10. his beautie Exod 2. 2. his meeknesse Num. 12. 3. his sinne and Aarons at the waters of Meribah Numb 20. 12. he might not therefore enter into the promised land Deut. 3. 24. c. but he vieweth it before his death Deut. 34. Moving thing Sherets what it meaneth Ge. 1. 20. Mouth for words Gen. 24. 57. and 41. 40. and 45. 21. Mouth for interpreter Gen. 45. 12. Ex. 4. 16. Mules how invented Gen. 36. 24. Murder how to be expiated when the authour is unknowen Deut. 21. 1 c. The murderer must die Deut. 19. 11. Lev. 24. 17. Murmurings of the Israelites Num. 14. 22. Muzzeling the Oxe forbidden when he treadeth out the corne Deut. 25. 4. Myrrhe what it was Exod. 30. 23. N NAked what it meaneth Gen. 3. 7. Nakednesse for weake places Gen. 42. 9. Naked flesh for the privities Exod. 28. 42. Nakednesses for unlawfull copulations what they were Lev. 18. 6 7 c. Nazirite or Separated Gen. 49. 26. The law for Nazirites Num. 6. 2 c. Nebo a Mountaine from whence Moses viewed the promised Land Deut. 32. 49. Necromancy or asking of the dead forbidden Deu. 18. 11. Neighbour who he is Exod. 20. 16. North-side of the Altar the place of killing the sacrifices Lev. 1. 11. Number for few Deut. 33. 6. O OBserving of times forbidden Deut. 18. 10. Observing of fortunes forbidden Deut. 18. 10. Og King of Basan vanquished Numb 21. 33. c. he was of the remnant of the Giants Deut. 3. 11. Oile for spirituall anointing Gen. 28. 18. Oile for the Lampes in the Sanctuarie Lev. 24. 2. c. Okes religiously respected Gen 21. 33. 35. 4. One for first Gen. 1. 5. Exod. 26. 4. for every one Exod. 26. 2. Opening of the wombe or first-borne sanctified Exod. 13. 2. 12. Over the house i. the Steward Gen. 41. 40. 43. 16. 19. Outspred-firmament whereof named Gen. 1. 6. P PAdan Aram called Mesopotamia Gen. 25. 20. Palme tree Exod. 15. 27. Boughes of Palm-trees and other the like used at the feast of Tabernacles Lev. 23. 40. Passeover what it signifieth Exod. 12. 11. the manner of eating it Exod. 12. 8 9 10. the sacrifices appointed for this Feast Numb 28. 16 19 c. The Passeover of sheep and oxen differing from the Paschall Lambe Deut. 16. 2. The Passeover in the second month with the rites of it Numb 9. 11 12 13. Peace for salvation Gen. 29. 6. for welfare Gen. 37. 14. 41. 16. 43. 27. Peace-offerings with the Law and signification of them Lev. 3. 7. 11 c. The shoulder and brest of the Peace-offerings were the Priests Levit. 7. 34. Peculiar treasure Exod. 19. 5. Pentecost a Feast of the Iewes called weeks Lev. 23. 15. Deut. 16. 9. Perfect Gen. 6. 9. 25. 27. Perfect or unblemished for sacrifice Exod. 12. 5. Lev. 1. 3. Perfection required in Israel Deut. 18. 13. Pestilence described by the Hebrewes Exod. 5. 3. Pharan the wildernesse Gen. 21. 21. Pharaoh Gen. 12. 15. Philistims Gen. 10. 14. Phinehas his zeale and reward Numb 25. 7 c. Phylacteries or frontlets what they were and upon what ground they were used Exod. 13. 9. 15. Pillar or Statue Matsebah Gen. 28. 18. Lev. 26. 1. Deut. 16. 22. Pillar of cloud and fire Exod. 13. 21. Pillars a signe of stability Exod. 27. 10. Pledges or Pawnes of their taking and restoring Exod. 22. 26. Deut. 24. 6 10 17. Plenty for multitude Gen. 48. 19. Polluted thing Pigul what it was Lev. 7. 18. Possession what it meaneth Gen. 22. 17. Deut. 9. 1. Plowing with an Oxe and an Asse for bidden Deut. 22. 10. Poore to be releeved Deut. 15. 7 c. Praying what it signifieth Gen. 20. 7. Prayer is the service of God Deut. 6. 13. Priest what it signifieth Gen. 14. 18. Priest or Prince Gen. 41. 45. The high Priests offering for his sinne Lev. 4. 3 c. The high Priests daily oblation Lev. 6. 20. Lawes for the Priests mourning and for their holinesse and marriage Lev. 21. 1 c. Of their blemishes Lev. 21. 17 c. How in their uncleannesse they must abstaine from the holy things Lev. 22. 2 c. The Priests portion of the peoples offerings Numb 18. 9. Foure and twenty gifts for the Priests Numb 18. 19. Priests and Levites had no part or inheritance with Israel Deut. 10. 8 9. 18. 1 2 c. Prince of slaughter-men what officer Gen. 37. 36. Prophaning of Gods Name forbidden Lev. 18. 21. 19. 12. Prophet what it signifieth Gen. 20. 7. Exod. 7. 1. A Prophet promised to Israel and their duty to heare him Deut. 18. 25 c. Purple Exod. 25. 4. Put for Make Gen. 13. 16. 21. 13. 27. 37. Q QVailes sent unto Israel Exod. 16. 13. Numb 11. 31. R RAamses a Citie Exod. 1. 11. Rameses a Citie Gen. 47. 11. Exod. 12. 37. Ram a sheepe of two yeeres Lev. 1. 10. Raine
the veil c. that he died not because God would appeare in the cloud upon the Mercie-seat Lev. 16. 2. Vers. 36. journeyed in all their journeyes and in the place where the cloud abode there the sons of Israel pitched their tents Al the daies that the cloud dwelled upon the Tabernacle whether it were a day or daies or a Moneth or a yeere they rested in the tents and journeyed not when the cloud was taken up whether it were by day or by night then they journeyed At the mouth of the Lord they pitched their tents and at the mouth of the Lord they journeyed they kept the charge or watch of the Lord Num. 9. 17. 23. This token of Gods guidance and protection of his people continued with Israel whiles they travelled in the wildernesse which grace the generations following remembred to the praise of God Neh. 9. 19. Ps. 78. 14. and 105. 39. V. 38. the cloud of Iehovah which in Thargum Ierusalemy is called the cloud of the glorie of Shecinah the Divine presence of the Lord. and fire At evening there was upon the Tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire untill the morning so it was alway the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night Numb 9. 15. 16. Hereby was figured the guidance and protection of the Church by Christ under the Gospel whereof it is written The Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Sion and upon her assemblies a Cloud and smoake by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glorie shall be a defence Esay 4. 5. The number of the Sections or Lectures in Exodus are eleven the verses 1209. The middest is at Exodus 22. 28. Remember the Law of Moses my servant which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel with the Statutes and Iudgements Malach. 4. 4. By the Law is the knowledge of Sinne Rom. 3. 20. The Law worketh wrath for where no Law is there is no transgression Rom. 4. 15. By the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified Gal. 2. 16. The Law was our Schoolemaster to bring us unto Christ Gal. 3. 24. Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that beleeveth Rom. 10. 4. ANNOTATIONS VPON THE THIRD BOOKE OF MOSES CALLED LEVITICVS VVHEREIN BY CONFERRING THE HOly Scriptures by comparing the Greeke and Chaldee versions and mouments of the Hebrewes the Sacrifices and other legall Ordinances heretofore commanded of God to the Church of Israel are explained BY HENRY AINSWORTH HEB. 7. 19. The Law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope by the which wee draw nigh unto God HEB. 10. 14. By one offring Christ hath perfected for ever the m that are sanctified HEB. 13. 15. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually that is the fruit of our lips confessing to his name LONDON ¶ Printed by Miles Flesher for John Bellamie and are to be sold at his shop neere the ROYALL EXCHANGE 1626. The Summe of LEVITICVS THis third Booke of Moses containeth the Law of Sacrifices and rites concerning them of Sacrificers and their holy ministration in the Sanctuary of the peoples sanctification from all outward and inward pollutions of religious actions to be done by the body of the Church and all the members thereof publikely and privately of the place where and times when Gods worship was chiefly to be performed with a confirmation of the whole Law by promises and threatnings All which God speaking out of the Tabernacle in the wildernesse declared unto Israel by the hand of Moses in the first moneth of the second yeere after their deliverance out of the land of Egypt which was in the yeere from the creation of the World 2514 More particularly GOD teacheth Israel how to sacrifice their Burnt offrings Chap. 1 The Meat-offring of flowre cakes wafers and first fruits 2 The Sacrifice of Peace-offrings of the herd or flocke 3 Sin-offrings for the Priest Congregation Ruler and private man 4 Trespass-offrings of sundry sorts for sundrie sinnes 5 Lawes more particularly touching the former sacrifices 6 Lawes touching the Trespass-offring and Peace-offrings Fat and Blood 7 The consecration of Aaron and his sons to the Priesthood 8 Aarons first offrings for himselfe and the people consumed by fire 9 Aarons sonnes transgress and are slaine of God Lawes for the Priests 10 The Law for cleane and uncleane beasts fowles fishes c. 11 Of a womans purification after child-birth 12 Of discerning Leprosie and judging it in men and in garments 13 Of clensing Lepers that are healed Of Leprosie in houses 14 Of the uncleane by runningyssues and their purification 15 Of the high Priests service on Atonement day to cleanse the Sanctuarie and reconcile the Church unto God once in the yeere 16 The place of sacrificing Against eating blood torne things c. 17 Against unlawfull copulations idolatrie and heathenish customes 18 Sundry lawes for holiness and righteousnes and against sins 19 Punishments for idolaters fornicators and other the like 20 Special holiness and perfection required in the Priests 21 Vncleane priests may not minister Sacrifices must be unblemished 22 The solemne feasts at certaine times of the yeere 23 Provision for Lamp oile and Shew-bread A blasphemer is stoned 24 Of the seventh or Sabbath yeere and Iubile with their rites 25 Promises and threatnings to confirme the Law of God 26 A law concerning Vowes devoted things and tithes 27 Ye shall be holy for I Iehovah your God am holy Lev. 19. 1. THE THIRD BOOKE OF MOSES CALLED LEVITICVS CHAPTER I. 1 God giveth by Moses a Law unto Israel touching the Burnt-offerings 3 of the herd 10 of the flock 13 of the fowles AND hee called unto Moses and Iehovah spake unto him out of the Tent of the Congregation saying Speake unto the sons of Israel say unto thē when any man of you shal offer an oblation to Iehovah of the cattell of the herd of the flock ye shall offer your oblation If his oblation be a Burnt-offring of the herd let him offer it a male perfect at the doore of the Tent of the congregation shall he offer it for his favourable acceptation before Iehovah And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the Burnt-offring and it shall be favourably accepted for him to make-atonement for him And hee shall kill the yongling of the herd before Iehovah and the sons of Aaron the Priests shall bring neere the blood and shall sprinkle the blood upon the Altar round about which is by the doore of the Tent of the congregation And he shall flay the Burnt-offring and shall cut it into the peices therof And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the Altar and shall lay the wood in-order upon the fire And the sonnes of Aaron the priests shall lay in order the pieces the head the fat upon the wood w ch is on the
fire which is upon the altar And the inwards thereof and the legs thereof hee shall wash in water and the priest shall burne all upon the Altar it is a Burnt-offring a Fire offring of a favour of rest unto Iehovah And if his oblation be of the flocke of the sheepe or of the goats for a Burnt-offring he shall offer it a male perfect And he shall kill it at the side of the altar northward before Iehovah and the sonnes of Aaron the priests shall sprinkle the blood therof upon the altar round about And hee shall cut it into the pieces thereof and the head therof and the fat thereof and the Priest shall lay them in order upon the wood which is on the fire which is upon the altar And the inwards and the legs he shall wash in water and the Priest shall offer all and burne it upon the altar it is a Burnt-offring a Fire offring of a savour of rest unto Iehovah And if the Burnt-offring his oblation to Iehovah be of the fowle then hee shall offer his oblation of turtle-doves or of yong pigeons And the Priest shall bring it neere unto the altar and he shall cut-with his naile the head thereof and burne it on the altar and the blood thereof shall bee wrung out upon the side of the altar And hee shall plucke away the crop thereof with the feathers of the same and shall cast it beside the altar eastward into the place of the ashes And he shall cleave it with the wings therof he shal not divide it-asunder and the Priest shall burne it upon the altar upon the wood which is upon the fire it is a Burnt-offring a Fire offring of a savour of rest unto Iehovah Annotations LEviticus this name the booke hath from the Greeke translation because it chiefly treateth of the service and sacrifices which the Levites used in the Tabernacle The Hebrew name is of the first word of the booke Vajikra that is And he called See the like noted upon Genesis Exodus Vers. 1. And he namely the Lord whose glory had filled the Tabernacle Exod. 40. 35. called unto Moses So the Greeke also explaineth it and Thargum Ierusalemy thus And the word of the Lord called unto Moses This booke is by the word And joyned to the former as a continuance of the historie And here beginneth the 24. Section or lecture of the Law wherof see Gen. 6. 9. called The last letter of this word in Hebrew is written extraordinarily small where in the Hebrew Doctors suppose some mystery to bee implyed The manner of calling was by a voice from the mercy-seat upon the Arke Numb 7. 89. Exod. 25. 22. that being a figure of Christ signified how God by him would teach Israel how they should serve him in spirit and truth Ioh. 1. 17. Heb. 1. 1. And God spake not with a lowd thundering voice as he did on mount Sinai but with a soft low voice which the small letter seemeth to intimate The phrase he called and Iehovahs name being mentioned after is like that in Exod. 24. 1. he said come up unto Iehovah Tent or as the Chaldee translateth it Tabernacle where God and his people met at appointed times as he promised Exodus 25. 22. and 30. 36. In Greeke it is the Tent or Tabernacle of testimonie by which name Moses also calleth it in Numb 1. 53. and Stephen in Act. 7. 44. As the Tabernacle principally figured Christ Heb. 9. 11. Ioh. 2. 19 21. so God speaking now from it who before had spoken on mount Sinai signified how in the last dayes hee would speake unto us in the Sonne who by himselfe should purge our sins Heb. 1. 1. 2. 3. Vers. 2. offer an oblation or an offring or bring neere a gift called in Hebrew Korban of comming neere unto God thereby the Greek usually translateth it doron a gift and so doth the Holy Ghost in Mark 7. 11. Mat. 5. 23. and 8. 4. and 23. 18. Hebr. 5 1. And to bring-neere to weet unto God is to offer unto him for one of these is used for another as in 1 Chor. 16. 1. they brought neere Burnt-offrings for which in 2 Sam. 6. 17. is written David offred Burnt offrings These offrings under the Law were figures of Christs offring who gave himselfe for us Heb. 10. and by whom wee also present our bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God Rom. 12. 1. and doe draw nigh unto God Heb. 7. 19. and offer by him the sacrifice of praise unto God continually Heb. 9. 11. 12. 14. and 13. 15. For the legal sacrifices could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience Heb. 9. 9. And so the wise among the Hebrewes doe acknowledge their ignorance concerning the truth of these mysteries untill the spirit from above be powred out upon them yet supposing that they signified the offrings which Michael offreth of the soules of the just as saith R. Menachem on Levit. 1. But unto us the Apostles have opened these parables and shewed their full accomplishment by Michael that is Christ Heb. 7. and 8. and 9. and 10. Rev. 12. 7. the herd or the Beeves or Bulls as the Chaldee expounds them These cattel of the herd and flock were the principall sacrifices both among Iewes and Gentiles as the law here and Balaams historie Numb 23. 1. 14. 29. and heathen writers manifest Homer Iliad 1. flocke the word comprehendeth sheepe and goats as is explained in verse 10. No beasts might bee sacrificed to God but these three sorts beeves sheepe or goats nor any fowles but turtle-doves and pigeons verse 14. These five kindes of living creatures which onely might bee offred to God are of the most tame and meeke profitable and serviceable harmelesse sociable c. and so were fittest to signifie the like things in Christ and his people God appointed not that men should bee killed for sacrifices although the heathens and idolatrous Israelites sometimes killed such Psalme 106. 37. 38. because as it was not possible that the blood of Bulls and of Goats should take away sins Heb. 10. 4 so neither could the blood of men but God that is Christ was to purchase his Church with his owne blood Act. 20. 28. Verse 3. Burnt-offring called in Hebrew G 〈…〉 lah that is an Ascension in Greeke Holocautoma Hebrewes 10. 6. that is an whole-burnt-offring this was the first and principall sacrifice wherewith God was served every day by the Church of Israel Numbers 28. 3. The reason of the name is shewed on Genesis 8. 20. where also it appeareth that this kinde of sacrifice was not now first instituted but observed from the beginning and kept among the Gentiles Numbers 23. 1. 2. 3. 2 Kings 3. 27. and 5. 17. The signification was of Christ that through the eternall spirit offred himselfe unto God Hebrewes 9. 14. and 10. 8. 10. and of Christians that present their bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God
curious girdle of the Ephod and fitly-girded him therewith And he put the Breast-plate upon him and he put in the Breastplate the Vrim and Thummim And he put the Miter upon his head and hee put upon the Miter even upon his forefront the plate of gold the crowne of holinesse as Iehovah commanded Moses And Moses took the anointing oile and anointed the Tabernacle and all that was therein and sanctified them And he sprinkled there of upon the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all the vessels thereof and the laver and the foot thereof to sanctifie them And he poured of the anointing oile upon Aarons head and anointed him to sanctifie him And Moses brought-neere Aarons sons and clothed them with costs and girded them with girdles and bound bonnets upon them as Iehovah commanded Moses And hee brought nigh the bullocke for the Sinne offring and Aaron and his sons layed their hands upon the head of the bullocke for the Sin offring And he killed it and Moses tooke the blood and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger and purified the altar and the blood he poured at the bottome of the altar and sanctified it to make-atonement upon it And he tooke all the fat that was upon the inwards and the caule of the liver and the two kidneyes and their fat and Moses burned them upon the altar And the bullocke and his skin and his flesh and his dung he burnt with fire without the campe as Iehovah commanded Moses And hee brought-neer the ram for the Burnt-offring and Aaron and his sons laid their handsupoÌ„ the head of the ram And hee killed it and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about And hee cut the ram into his peeces and Moses burnt the head and the peeces and the fat And hee washed the inwards and the legs in water Moses burnt all the ram upon the altar it was a Burnt-offring for a savour of rest it was a Fire offring unto Iehovah as Iehovah commanded Moses And he brought-neere the second ram the ram of the Fillings of the hand and Aaron and his sonnes laid their hands upon the head of the ramme And he killed it and Moses tooke of the blood of it and put it upon the tip of Aarons right eare and upon the thumbe of his right hand and upon the great-toe of his right foot And he brought-neere Aarons sonnes and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right eare and upon the thumbe of their right hand and upon the great-toe of their right foot and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round-about And he tooke the fat and the rumpe and all the fat that was upon the inwards and the caule of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right shoulder And out of the basket of unlevened cakes that was before Iehovah he tooke one unlevened cake and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer and put them on the fats and on the right shoulder And hee put all on the palmes-of-the-hands of Aaron and on the palmes-of-the-hands of his sonnes and waved them for a Wave offring before Iehovah And Moses tooke them from off the palmes-of their hands and burnt them on the altar upon the Burnt-offring they were the Fillings of the hand for a favour of rest it was a â—â—re offring unto Iehvah And Moses tooke the brest and waved it for a Wave-offring before Iehovah of the ram of the Fillings of the hand it was Moses part as Iehovah commanded Moses And Moses took of the anoynting oile and of the blood which was upon the altar and sprinkled it upon Aaron upon his garments and upon his sonnes and upon his sonnes garments with him sanctified Aaron his garments and his sonnes and his sons garments with him And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sonnes Boyle the flesh at the doore of the Tent of the congregation and there eat it and the bread which is in the basket of the Fillings of the hand as I commanded saying Aaron and his sonnes shall eat it And the remainder of the flesh and of the bread ye shall burne with fire And ye shall not goe-out of the doore of the Tent of the congregation seven daies untill the day of fulfilling the dayes of your Filling of the hand for seven daies shall he fill your hand As he hath done in this day Iehovah hath commanded to doe to make-atonement for you And ye shall abide at the doore of the Tent of the congregation day and night seven dayes and shall keepe the charge of Iehovah that ye dye not for so I am commanded And Aaron and his sonnes did all the things which Iehovah commanded by the hand of Moses Annotations AAron who was before designed unto the Priests office Exod. 28. 1. Hitherto God hath given lewes for holy things now for holy persons 〈◊〉 ministers and others unto chap. 15. gar 〈…〉 the holy garments which were prescribed 〈◊〉 〈…〉 d. 28. 2. c. and made in Exod. 39. 1. c. So 〈◊〉 Thargum Ionathan it is explained the gar 〈…〉 which I commanded thee oile whereof see 〈◊〉 30. 23. c. a bullocke or bull as the 〈◊〉 explaineth it The Hebrew Par here and alwaies in the sacrifices meaneth a bull of the second yeere at the least Maimony treat of offring sacrif chap. 1. Sect. 24. for a sin offring Hebr. of sin which the Greeke translateth for sinne This and the other sacrifices were to sanctifie them unto the Priests office see Exod. 29. 1. 2. c. two rammes the one for a Burnt offring verse 18. the other for Consecration of the Priests or Filling their hand verse 22. These also were to bee above a yeere old for all tammes for sacrifice were to be of the second yeere as Lambs were of the first yeere Maimony ibidem Vers. 3. of the congregation in Greeke of testimony see Levit. 1. 1. Thus the presence of God and of the Church is here at the consecration of the Priests And by the doore of the Tent is meant the Courtyard of the same which was before the doore and all the Court was so called as Sol. Iâ—â—chi noteth on Exod. 29. Vers. 5. the thing Hebr. the word of this commandement see Exod. 29. 4. Vers. 6. water to wash away uncleannesse a signe of their sanctification from sinne by repentance and faith through the spirit of our Lord Iesus Christ who came by water and blood 1 Ioh. 5. 6. Ezek. 36. 25. Heb. 10. 22. Esay 1. 16. See the notes on Exodus 29. 4. Vers. 7. put Hebr. gave The putting off of his owne clothes signified the taking away of his iniquitie Zach. 3. 4. and these other garments signified the gifts of justice and salvation Psal. 132. 9. 16. See the particulars observed on Exod. 29. 5. c. the Coat the linnen coat which was next his skin save onely the linnen breeches under it upon
beasts which are borne to him into one fold together but every flocke by it selfe They may not tithe of the sheepe for the bullocks noâ— of the bul 〈…〉 for the sheepe but they may tithe of the sheepe for the goats and of the goats for the sheep for Tson the flock compreheÌ„deth them both They may not tithe them that are born this yeere from them that are borne in another yeere even as they may not tithe of the seed of the land of the new for the old or of the old for the new All that are borne in the first of Tâ—â—ri September untill the 29. of Elâ—â— August are alike and they may tithe of the one for the other If five lambs be borne the 29. day of August and five the first of September they are not alike or matches If a lamb bring forth a yong within her yeere then shee and her yong are put into the fold together to be tithed Maim in Becoroth ch 7. s. 1. 5. The tithes as also the First fruits in Israel which the Lord sanctified to himselfe besides their use for his honour the sustentation of his ministers and the poore had also a further signification of Gods elect people whom hee sanctifieth and reserveth unto himselfe for salvation as the tithes and first fruits of his creatures Esay 6. 13. Ier. 2. 3. Iam. 1. 18. Heb. 12. 23. Rev. 14. 4. Vers. 33. He shall not search the Greeke translateth Thou shalt not change them a good for a bad or a bad for a good the change thereof that is the beast put in the place thereof not be redeemed under this the Hebrewes understand also a prohibition to sell it if it were unblemished as Maimony in Becoroth c. 6. s. 5. c. saith It is unlawfull to sell the tithe beast if it be perfect without blemish for it is said It shall not bee redeemed Wee have beene taught that this is also a prohibition to sell it And it seemeth unto me that be thas selleth his tithe doth nothing his sale is of no force neither shall the buyer receive it By the doctrine of our Scribes it is unlawfull to sell the blemished tithe yea though it bee slaine But if a blemished tithe beast be slaine it is lawfull to â—ell the fat synewes skin or bones thereof and they have forbidden nothing to bee sold but the flesh onely T 〈…〉 tithes in Israel being thus sanctified by the commandement of God unto his honour the maintenance of his ministers and reliefe of his poore people it taught them and teacheth us to honouâ— the Lord with our substance Prov. 3. 9. acknowledging him to bee the author of all our increase and store Deut. 8. 13. 18. Hos. 2. 8. to honour his ministers and to communicate unto them in 〈◊〉 good things 1 Tim. 5. 17. 18. Galat. 6. 6. that they which sow unto us spirituall things should reape our carnall things 1 Cor. 9. 11. and to give almes of such things as wee have that all things may bee cleane unto us Luk. 11. 41. yea even to se 〈…〉 that we have and give almes to provide our selves bagges which waxe not old a treasure in the heaven that faileth not Luk. 12. 33. And as we beleeve that the purpose of God towards us in his election of grace standeth firme and unchangeable and hee loveth us unto the end Rom. 9. 11. Ioh. 13. 1. so ought our love againe unto him and his to be constant for ever and with purpose of heart we should cleave unto the Lord Act. 11. 23. HEB. 7. 11. 12. If perfection were by the Leviticall Priesthood for under it the people received the Law what further need was there that another Priest should rise after the order of Melchisedek and not be called after the order of Aaron For the Priesthood being changed there is made of necessitie a change also of the Law HEB. 8. 1. 2. We have such an high Priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majestie in the heavens a minister of the Holies and of the true Tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man HEB. 9. 28. Christ was once offred to beare the sinnes of many and unto them that looke for him shall he appeare the second time without Sinne unto salvation ANNOTATIONS VPON THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF MOSES CALLED NVMBERS WHEREIN BY CONFERENCE OF THE Scriptures by comparing the Greeke and Chaldee Versions and Testimonies of Hebrew Writers the Lawes and Ordinances given of old unto ISRAEL in this Booke are explained BY HENRY AINSWORTH IVDE vers 5. I will put you in remembrance though ye once knew this how that the Lord having saved a people out of the Land of Egypt afterward destroyed them that beleeved not PSALM 95. 10. Fortie yeeres was I grieved with this generation HEB. 3. 17 18 19. 4. 11. But with whom was he grieved fortie yeeres Was it not with them that had sinned whose carkasses fell in the wildernesse And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest but to them that beleeved not So wee see that they could not enter in because of unbeleefe Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest lest any man fall after the same example of unbeleefe LONDON ¶ Printed by John Haviland for John Bellamie and are to be sold at his shop neere the ROYALL EXCHANGE 1626. The summe of the Booke of NVMBERS THis fourth booke of Moses sheweth the numbers and order of the Tribes of Israel as they camped about Gods Sanctuarie and journeyed thorow the Wildernesse with the many troubles rebellions punishments favours deliverances conquests c. in their travels during the time of almost 39. yeeres With additions and explanations of sundry Lawes given of God for their sanctification and preparation to the inheritance of the Land of Canaan More particularly THe numbring of the Tribes of Israel except the Levites Chap. 1 The order of the Tribes when they encamped and journeyed 2 The numbers order charges of the Priests and Levites 3. and 4 Lawes for the sanctifying of the Campe for jealousie Nazirites and blessing of the people 5. and 6 The Princes oblations at the dedication of the Tabernacle and Altar 7 The consecration of the Levites to their ministeries 8 The Passeover in the wildernesse The cloud that guided the people 9 Silver trumpets with their uses The campe ariseth and setteth forward 10 The people murmur and lust for flesh are fed and punished Seventie Elders are joyned with Moses 11 Mary murmureth against Moses and is striken with leprosie 12 Twelve men are sent to spie the Land of Canaan 13 They bring up an evill report of the Land the people murmur and rebell and are condemned to die in the wildernesse 14 Lawes how to sacrifice in Canaan 15 The rebellions and punishments of Korah Dathan Abiram and the Congregation of Israel 16 Aarons rod flourisheth for a signe to confirme the Leviticall priesthood 17 The Priests and Levites
charges with their portions for their livelihod Chap. 〈◊〉 The making and use of the water of purification 19 Mary dieth The people murmur for water and have it from the Rocke where Moses and Aaron offend Aaron dieth 2â— Israel conquer some Canaanites murmur and are bitten of fierie serpents but healead by a brasen Serpent Their conquest over S 〈…〉 and Og kings of the Amorites 2â— Balaam is hired of the Moabites to curse Israel but God turneth his curse into a 〈◊〉 fing 22 23 24 Israel joyneth to Baal-peor and iâ— plagu 〈…〉 25 The last numbring of the Israelites 〈◊〉 should possesse the land 26 A law for women to inherit Iosua is appointed successor to Moses 2â— The Oblations on Sabbaths and at sol 〈…〉 feasts 28. and 29 The law concerning vowes 30 Israel overcommeth the Midianites 31 Reuben Gad and halfe Manasses have their inheritance assigned in the land of S 〈…〉 and Og. 32 The 42. journies of Israel in the wildeâ—nesse 33 The bounds of the land of Canaan and 〈…〉 dividing it by lot 34 The 48. cities of the Levites and 〈◊〉 refuge for unwilling manslayers 〈◊〉 A law for mariage in their owne tribes 〈◊〉 inheritances should be removed Chap. 〈◊〉 THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF MOSES CALLED NVMBERS CHAPTER I. 1. In the second yeere after Israel was come out of Egypt God commandeth Moses to number all the males of the people from twenty yeeres old and upward 5. The Princes of the tribes that were joyned with Moses and Aaron for this businesse 17. The number of every tribe particularly 45. The summe of them all together 47. The Levites are not numbred among the tribes 50. but are exempted for the seruice of the Lord about the Tabernacle ANd Iehovah spake unto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinaâ— in the Tent of the congregation in the first day of the second moneth in the second yeere after their comming forth out of the land of Egypt saying Take ye the summe of all the congregation of the sonnes of Israel according to their families according to the house of their fathers by the number of the names every male according to their polles From twentie yeeres old and upward every one that goeth forth with the armie in Israel ye shall muster them by their armies thou and Aaron And with you there shal be a man of every Tribe every man shal be head of the house of his fathers And these are the names of the men which shall stand with you Of Reuben Elizur the son of Shedeur Of Simeon Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai Of Iudah Naasson the son of Amminadab Of Issachar Nethaneel the son of Zuar Of Zabulon Eliab the son of Helon Of the sons of Ioseph of Ephraim Elishama the son of Ammihud of Manasses Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur Of Benjamin Abidan the son of Gideoni Of Dan Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai Of Aser Pagiel the son of Ocran Of Gad Eliasaph the son of Deguel Of Naphtali Ahira the son of Enan These be the called of the congregation Princes of the tribes of their fathers heads of the thousands of Israel And Moses and Aaron tooke these men which are expressed by names And they assembled all the congregation in the first day of the second moneth and they declared their genealogies according to their familes according to the house of their fathers by the number of the names from twentie yeeres old and upward according to their polles As Iehovah commanded Moses so he mustered them in the wildernesse of Sinai And the sons of Reuben the first-borne of Israel were by their generations according to their families according to the house of their fathers by the number of the names according to their polles every male from twentie yeeres old and upward every one that went forth with the armie Those that were mustered of them of the tribe of Reuben were six and forty thousand and five hundred Of the sonnes of Simeon by their generations according to their families according to the house of their fathers those that were mustered of him by the number of the names according to their polles every male from twentie yeeres old and upward every one that went forth with the armie Those that were mustered of them of the tribe of Simeon were nine and fifty thousand and three hundred Of the sonnes of Gad by their generations according to their families according to the house of their fathers by the number of the names from twentie yeeres old and upward every one that went forth with the armie Those that were mustered of them of the tribe of Gad were five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty Of the sonnes of Iudah by their generations according to their families according to the house of their fathers by the number of the names from twentie yeeres old and upward every one that went forth with the armie Those that were mustered of them of the tribe of Iudah were foure and seventy thousand and six hundred Of the sonnes of Issachar by their generations according to their families according to the house of their fathers by the number of the names from twentie yeeres old and upward every one that went forth with the armie Those that were mustered of them of the tribe of Issachar were foure and fifty thousand and foure hundred Of the sonnes of Zabulon by their generations according to their families according to the house of their fathers by the number of the names from twentie yeeres old and upward every one that went forth with the armie Those that were mustered of them of the tribe of Zabulon were seven and fiftie thousand and foure hundred Of the sonnes of Ioseph of the sonnes of Ephraim by their generations according to their families according to the house of their fathers by the number of the names from twentie yeeres old and upward every one that went forth with the armie Those that were mustered of them of the tribe of Ephraim were fortie thousand and five hundred Of the sonnes of Manasses by their generations according to their families according to the house of their fathers by the number of their names from twentie yeeres old and upward every one that went forth with the armie Those that were mustered of them of the tribe of Manasses were two and thirtie thousand and two hundred Of the sonnes of Benjamin by their generations according to their families according to the house of their fathers by the number of the names from twentie yeeres old and upward every one that went forth with the armie Those that were mustered of them of the tribe of Benjamin were five and thirtie thousand and foure hundred Of the sonnes of Dan by their generations according to their families according to the house of their fathers by the number of the names from twentie yeeres old and upward every one that went forth with the armie Those that were mustered of them of the tribe of Dan were two and sixtie thousand and seuen