suffer their locks to grow long; they shall surely poll 21 their heads. Neither shall any priest drink wine, when 22 they enter into the inner court. Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, or her that is put away: but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a 23 widow that is the widow of a priest. And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the prophane, and cause them to discern between the defiled 24 and the clean. And in controversy they shall stand to judge; after my judgments shall they judge it; and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all * mine assem25 blies, and they shall hallow my sabbaths. And they shall come unto no dead person † to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, or for brother, or for sister that hath no husband, they may 26 defile themselves. And after his cleansing, they shall 27 reckon unto him seven days. And in the day when he goeth into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin-offering, saith the *Or, my solemn feasts. + H. for defilement. 21. 22. 23. -drink wine.-See Lev. x. 9, 10, 11. for their wives.-See Lev. xxi. 14. -the holy &c.—What places, according to the ceremonial law, are holy, and what common; what things are defiled, and what clean. 24. -to judge.— is the reading of ó. Syr. Chald. Houb. and vo, to judgment, has the authority of MSS. edd. and Keri. read a controversy of blood. But ó. ——after my judgments shall they judge it.-, in judgment, 2 MSS. Perhaps, 'wo. Nine or ten MSS. read 110w'. they shall come.-1' may be distributive: but 1 MS. and 25. Houb. read plurally. 26. -dead person.-Lev. xxi. 1, 2, 3. —or for brother.—пæb1 MSS. 6. Ar. Syr. V. reckon. -they shall reckon.-DD 6. Ar. Syr. 1 MS. originally: he shall 28 Lord Jehovah. They shall have no inheritance; I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in 29 Israel; I am their possession. They shall eat the offering of flour, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering: 30 and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. And the first fruits of all things, the first born of all things, and every heave-offering of all things from all your heaveofferings, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause a 31 blessing to rest on thine house. The priests shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself, or that is * torn; whether it be of fowl or of beast. *Or, a prey. היתה 28. They shall have no inheritance.-Read and пn, with V. Cornelius a Lapide, Houbigant, and Dathius: for thus the former part of the verse corresponds to the latter. The two latter critics remove saith the Lord Jehovah from the end of the foregoing verse, and place that clause after inheritance. Perhaps, And I will be unto them an inheritance; even I will be their inheritance. "And their priesthood shall be &c. This I have added from Josh. xviii. 7." Michaelis. See Numb. xviii. 20. Deut. x. 9. xviii. 2. 29. -devoted thing.-As a field, or a beast. See Lev. xxvii. 28. Numb. xviii. 14, 18. 30. -the first fruits.So n is used Deut. xxvi. 10. See the law, Exod. xxiii. 19. xxxiv. 26. Numb. xviii. 13. Neh. x. 35. The punctuation is adopted from ó, where the reading is, '71221. -the first born.-See Exod. xxii. 29, 30. Neh. x. 36. -every heave-offering.-See Exod. xxix. 28. Lev. x. 15. Numb. v. 9. Neh. x. 37. Dy in Chald. is commiscuit. -your dough.—Numb. xv. 19, 20, 21. 31. dieth of itself.-Lev. xvii. 15. xxii. 8. -torn.-Of beasts in the field. Exod. xxii. 31. Lev. xxii. 8. CHAPTER XLV. * Moreover, when ye shall divide the land by lot for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation to Jehovah, an an holy portion of the land; the length shall be five and twenty thousand cubits, and the breadth ten thousand; this shall betan holy portion in all the borders thereof round 2 about. [And] of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred cubits in length by five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits for the suburbs thereof round about. Even of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand; and therein shall be the sanctuary, even 3 *H. holiness. + H. holiness. 1. -divide―by lot.-See Josh. xxiii. 4. -ye shall offer an oblation.-Ye shall heave, as it were, an heaveoffering, as the first fruits of the land itself. Mr. Lowth. See c. xliv. 30. —cubits.—Houbigant reads thus for the second 778. Michaelis prefers cubits to rods. It may be collected from v. 2 that the cubit was the measure to be used. Duplex 778 non agnoscunt ó Syr. Vulg. Videtur vel prius ortum ex ps, vel posterius ex : non geminatur v 3." Secker. 66 -the borders thereof.-16. 2. [And].—', the ancients, except Chald. 3 MSS. and 1 in the margin; and Houbigant. -five hundred.-This agrees with c. xlii. 16-20, as amended. -suburbs.—Pomærium, spatium sine ædibus. Houb. A part excluded or cast out of walls or precincts. Tayl. conc. 3. Even of this measure.-Igitur secundum mensuram hanc (paulo ante indicatam) metitor &c. Corn. a Lapide. This verse is a repetition of v. 1, 2. --shalt thou measure. 9 MSS. 3 edd. Houb. 4 the most holy place. This holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, that draw near to minister unto Jehovah; and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanc5 tuary. And five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be for the Levites the ministers 6 of the house for a possession, for cities to dwell in. And ye shall appoint the possession of the city, five thousand in breadth and in length five and twenty thousand, overagainst the oblation of the holy portion : it shall be for all the house of Israel. And portions shall be for the prince on this side and on that side of the oblations of the holy portions and of the possession of the city, before the oblations of the holy portions and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward and from the east side eastward and the length shall be overagainst every one of the portions, from the border of the west to the 7 4. This holy &c.—Or thus: “This is the holy portion of the land: it shall be for the priests" &c. —and an holy place for the sanctuary.-wipp seems an explanation of p, to shew that the preposition is omitted. 5. -for cities to dwell in.—nwboy, is the reading of 6. But Houbigant prefers yw, gates. Civitatem. Th. See the note in Montf. Hex. 6. ———five thousand &c.—This rectangle contained an area of about seventeen miles in circuit; which was more than four times the circuit of Jerusalem. See Jos. B. J. v. iv. 3; where that city is said to be thirty-three stadia in circumference. Much therefore is here allowed for the convenience of the inhabitants. 7. -oblations.—In ó. we find drapɣás and ȧñaрxŵv; and therefore they read on twice, comprehending the portions of the priests and also of the Levites. from the east side eastward.-Perhaps we should read DP. See c. xl. 6. -length &c.—As one of the portions. ó. -overagainst every one of the portions.—To be assigned to the adjoin ing tribes. See c. xlviii. 8. 8 border eastward. As for the land, it shall be unto him a possession in Israel, that my princes may no more oppress my people and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes. 9 10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your oppressions from my people, saith the Lord Jehovah. Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just 11 bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure; that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof 12 shall be according to the homer. And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: the pieces of silver of twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be together your maneh. 13 This is the heave-offering which ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah out of an homer of wheat, and the sixth 8. As for the land.-See Nold. §. 30. But Chald. reads . to the border eastuard .6 לארץ : והיה .MSS 2 תהיה-it shall be of the land. And it shall be &c. 9. -oppressions.—Houbigant derives the word from the Syr. w, traxit, raptavit. The Arab. root signifies comminuit, like the Hebr. D, and also diripuit rem. Michaelis derives it from the Arab. Da deposcere, and thinks that it refers to servitutem juris pascendi in subditorum agris. However, in his version he renders, expulsiones ex patriis agris. See suppl. ad lex. Hebr. 10. -just balances &c.-See Lev. xix. 36. Deut. xxv. 15. 11.————of one measure. The bath for things liquid, and the ephah for things dry: the bath containing about 75 gallons, and the ephah about 32 pecks. See Arbuthnot. 12. -twenty gerahs.-See Exod. xxx. 13. maneh. We may well suppose that three of the usual current coins among the Jews answered to the three numbers of shekels here mentioned. The amount of the three was sixty shekels; which made a maneh, μvâ, or mina. 13. and the sixth part.-All the ancients read ww; instead of |