Ver. 6. Or for a ram , etc.] Whether for a burnt offering or a peace offering; or rather and for a ram f194 , as many versions: thou shalt prepare [for] a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third [part] of an hin of oil : which was the quantity of six quarts of fine flour, and about three pints and a quarter of a pint of oil.
Verses 1-21 - Full instructions are given about the meat-offerings an drink-offerings. The beginning of this law is very encouraging, When y come into the land of your habitation which I give unto you. This was plain intimation that God would secure the promisedland to their seed It was requisite, since the sacrifices of acknowledgment were intende as the food of God's table, that there should be a constant supply of bread, oil, and wine, whatever the flesh-meat was. And the intent of this law is to direct the proportions of the meat-offering an drink-offering. Natives and strangers are placed on a level in this a in other like matters. It was a happy forewarning of the calling of the Gentiles, and of their admission into the church. If the law made s little difference between Jew and Gentile, much less would the gospel which broke down the partition-wall, and reconciled both to God.
