;b2 NUMBERS XXX their duty to grow in grace , and increafe in fan - ftification : that their lens decreafing,the number of their facrifices (wherby Atonement was made for their fins) thould alto dccreafe daily. Or it might fignific a diminishing and wearing away of the legal( offerings, to lead them unto the fpirituall and reafonable fervice by prelènting their owne bodies a living faerifice , holy, accep- table unto God, Rom. I 2.1 18 Verfè 18. and fir thelambes] the Hebrewes fay, that the Meat andDrink - offerings of thefe feve- rall facrifices, were never to be mixed together, but the Meat and Drink - elfBrings of the bullocks: were by them - feelves, and the Meat and Drin/- offerings of the Rammes by themfelver, andof the Lambe, by themfelves; whether they were the oblations of the congregation, or the oblations ofa particular perfon. Maimony in Tamidin, chap- ter to. feecion 15. 35 Ver.35.In the eighth by] Ghazkuni here obfer- reth, that it is not Paid (as was of the former dales) And jnthe eighth day; to teach that it war agood day (or feali)byitflfè. afolemneafmbly] or, ge- neraU of mbly : See the notes on Lev.23.36. 36 Verfè 36. one bullock] though this was the lath, and the great day of the feat!, Joh y.37. yet were-the facrifices fewer than on any other day; as if God would call them front the multitude of outward oblations to his fpiritualwortbip,as is noted on verf' 17. And :our Saviour 'on that day called the people front their many carnal( obfervations, (Tonic whereof are noted on Leviticus 23.4e.) unto ltintlelfe ,to drinke the waters of Isis Spi- rit, Joh. 7.38,39. 39 Verfe 39. befideyour voner, &c.] of the difference between Vowea and Voluntary- offerings , fee the An- notations on Lev. 7.16. The tcrifices fore-men- tioned,thecongregationof Ifraelwas bound to offer, every thing in his day : but all men as they hadeither vowed,or voluntarily would,brought their facrifices at the fealls, (efpecially Peace-of- ferings , which the owners did eat before the Lord)that according to the biding of God upon them, they, their children and their fervants,the Levites,the ftranger,the fatherleffe & the widow with them,might eat & drink, and rejoyce before the Lord , Deut.16.10.11,14,15. The truth and complement of al which folemnities arenow ful- filled unto us by Chrift, who by once offering of hitnfclf,hath reconciled us untoGod,&wrought our eternal redemption,and hat, given us of his Spirit, whereby we know that he ahideth in us, and hath placed in us the kingdom of God,which conifieth in righteoufneffe and peace, and joy in the holy Ghofl : That by him we fhould offer the faerifice of praìf to God continually that is , the fruit of our lips,confffmg to hit Name, and fbould not forget to doe good, and to communicate, for with fetch facrifices God is well pleafed, Colon. 2.16,17. Hebr.9. r 2,26, 28.1 Job -3.24. Rom.144..1g57. CHAP. XXX. 1 The Lord commanded, that mens vowes or oaths Ut Vowes. be not profaned, bur kept. '3 A maid in ber fathers b u fe , the father bath power to <flabl her vow or to difanull it. 6 Likwife a married woman is in her huf- bands piwir, lie may confirme or difamoll ber vow , in the day that 'he bearetb it. 9 But thevorees rf a wi- dow, or divorced woman, are to flaad. to An expla- nation of the cafe between moil and w f concerning vowel or oathes. 66tá ANd Mofes fpake unto the heads of the r Tribes, concerning the fons of Iliad, laying, This is the thing which Jeho- vah commanded. A man,when he !hall vow 2 a vow unto Jehovah, or fweare an oath to binde /bond upon his foule, he Thal not pro- fane his word, he !hall doe according to all that proceedeth ont of his mouth. And a woman,when the fhal vow avow unto Jeho. vah,and binde a bond in her fathers houle in her youth: And her father hear her vow and 4 her bond , which fhe hath bound upon her foule , and her father (hall hold his peace at her;then all her vowes (hall ftand,and every bond which the hath bound upon her foule !hall Rand. And if her father difanul l her in the day that he heareth,nor anyof her vows or of her bonds which the hashbound upon her foule !hall (land : and Jehovah will mer- cifully forgive her, becaufe her father difal- lowed her. And if having fl:e have an huf- band ,and her vowes be upon her,or the utte- rance of her lips,which fhe hath bound upon her foule; And her husband heare,and hold his peace at her in the day that he heareth; then hervowes'fhall (land, and her bonds which file hath bound upon her foule !hall (land. But if in the day that her husband 8 heareth he difallow her, then he !hall make void her vow which is upon her, and the ut- terance of her lips which flu hath bound up- on her foule; and Jehovah will mercifully forgive her..' But the vow ofa widow,and of her that is put away , whatfoever the hash bound upon her foule (hall (land upon her. And if fte vowed in her husbands houle, or bound a bond upon her foule with an oath : And her husband heard, and held his peace at her, and dilallowed her not ; then all her vowes (hall ftand,and every bond which the bath bound upon her foule (hall (land. But if her husband bath utterly made them void in. the day that he heard, whatfoever pro- ceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her foule, (hail sot (land; her husband bath made them void, and Jehovah will mercifully forgive. her. 3 5 6 7 9 IO II 12
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