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The Burnt-Offering. - Lev 1:2. “If any one of you present an offering to Jehovah of cattle, ye shall present your offering from the herd and from the flock.” קָרְבָּן (Corban, from הִקְרִיב to cause to draw near, to bring near, or present, an offering) is applied not only to the sacrifices, which were burned either in whole or in part upon the altar (Lev 7:38; Num 18:9; Num 28:2, etc.), but to the first-fruits (Lev 2:12), and dedicatory offerings, which were presented to the Lord for His sanctuary and His service without being laid upon the altar (Num 7:3, Num 7:10., Num 31:50). The word is only used in Leviticus and Numbers, and two passages in Ezekiel (Eze 20:28; Eze 40:43), where it is taken from the books of Moses, and is invariably rendered δῶρον in the lxx (cf. Mar 7:11 “Corban, that is to say a gift”). הַבְּהֵמָה מִן (from the cattle) belongs to the first clause, though it is separated from it by the Athnach; and the apodosis begins with הַבָּקָר מִן (from the herd). The actual antithesis to “the cattle” is “the fowl” in Lev 1:14; though grammatically the latter is connected with Lev 1:10, rather than Lev 1:2. The fowls (pigeons) cannot be included in the behemah, for this is used to denote, not domesticated animals generally, but the larger domesticated quadrupeds, or tame cattle (cf. Gen 1:25).