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the people, as the prophet long afterwards said to the widow of Sarepta (1Ki 17:13), Only make me thereof a little cake first. This offering was expressly kept up by the laws of Ezekiel's visionary temple, and it is a commandment with promise of family-mercies (Eze 44:30): You shall give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thy house; for, when God has had his dues out of our estates, we may expect the comfort of what falls to our share.
19 then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall
offer up a heave offering unto the Lord.
20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for a heave
offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the Lord a heave
offering in your generations.
22 And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments,
which the Lord hath spoken unto Moses,
We have here the laws concerning sacrifices for sins of ignorance; the Jews understand it of idolatry, or false worship, through the error of their teachers. The case here supposed is that they had not observed all these commandments, Nu 15:22,23. If they had failed in the offerings of their acknowledgment, and had not brought them according to the law, then they must bring an offering of atonement, yea, though the omission had been through forgetfulness or mistake. If they failed in one part of the ceremony, they must make it up by the observance of another part, which was in the nature of a remedial law.
1 The case is put of a national sin, committed through ignorance, and become customary through a vulgar error (Nu 15:24)--the congregation, that is, the body of the people, for so it is explained (Nu 15:25): All the congregation of the children of Israel. The ceremonial observances were so numerous, and so various, that, it might easily be supposed, some of them by degrees would be forgotten and disused, as particularly that immediately before concerning the heave-