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- Chapter 15
- Verse 14
Numbers 15:14
And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
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Commentary
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation,.... Or "O congregation" (i), as Ben Melech, and so the Targum of Jonathan, "O whole congregation"; though Aben Ezra denies it to be vocative:…
Here we have,
I. Full instructions given concerning the meat-offerings and drink-offerings, which were appendages to all the sacrifices of animals. The beginning of this law is very encouraging: When…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
a stranger a sojourner. For this word and the -homeborn," see on Num 9:14.
or whosoever be among you This appears to mean one who is residing in the land but has not been granted the definite status…