SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:19
Y respondió Aarón a Moisés: He aquí hoy han ofrecido su expiación y su holocausto delante del SEÑOR; con todo eso me han acontecido estas cosas; pues si comiera yo hoy de la expiación, ¿Hubiera sido acepto al SEÑOR?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 10:19
Verse 19. And such things have befallen me, &c.] The excuse which Aaron makes for not feasting on the sin-offering according to the law is at once appropriate and dignified; as if he had said: "God certainly has commanded me to eat of the sin-offering; but when such things as these have happened unto me, could it be good in the sight of the Lord? Does he not expect that I should feel as a father under such afflicting circumstances?" With this spirited answer Moses was satisfied; and God, who knew his situation, took no notice of the irregularity which had taken place in the solemn service. To human nature God has given the privilege to weep in times of affliction and distress. In his infinite kindness he has ordained that tears, which are only external evidences of our grief, shall be the outlets to our sorrows, and tend to exhaust the cause from which they flow. See on "Leviticus x. 3".
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. And Aaron said unto Moses , etc.] For what Moses had said was said in his presence, though not addressed to him directly, but to his sons; and he was sensible that he was pointed at, and that if there was any blame in this affair, it lay as much or more on him than on his sons; and therefore he takes it upon him to give an answer, and to excuse the fact as well as he could: behold, this day they have offered their sin [offering] and their burnt offering before the Lord ; that is, the people of Israel had brought a kid of the goats for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb for burnt offering, and he and his sons assisting him, had offered them for them, even on the very day his two eldest sons were removed by death in an awful manner: and such things have befallen me ; at this very time, soon after the above sacrifices were offered, happened the death of his two sons, which occasioned great anguish and distress, grief and sorrow, so that he could not eat of the sin offering; he had no appetite for it, and if he had, he thought in his present circumstances it would not have been right, as follows: and [if] I had eaten the sin [offering] today, should it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord ? he being a mourner. The Jews say f211 , an high priest may offer, being a mourner, but not eat; a common priest may neither offer nor eat; and which they illustrate by this passage, that Aaron offered and did not eat, but his sons did neither.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-20 - Afflictions should rather quicken us to our duty, than take us from it But our unfitness for duty, when it is natural and not sinful, wil have great allowances made for it; God will have mercy, and no sacrifice. Let us profit by the solemn warning this history conveys When professing worshippers come with zeal without knowledge, carna affections, earthly, light, vain, trifling thoughts, the devices of will-worship, instead of the offering of soul and spirit; then the incense is kindled by a flame which never came down from heaven, whic the Spirit of a holy God never sent within their hearts __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וידבר 1696 אהרן 175 אל 413 משׁה 4872 הן 2005 היום 3117 הקריבו 7126 את 853 חטאתם 2403 ואת 853 עלתם 5930 לפני 6440 יהוה 3068 ותקראנה 7122 אתי 853 כאלה 428 ואכלתי 398 חטאת 2403 היום 3117 הייטב 3190 בעיני 5869 יהוה׃ 3068
