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Special Ordinances Concerning Some Offerings
v. 18. Thus saith the Lord God, In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, instead of the goat prescribed by Moses for similar occasions, Num_28:15, and cleanse the Sanctuary, by a sacrifice of purification according to the ancient rite;
v. 19. and the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering, as described in Eze_43:20, and put it upon the posts of the house, the gate-posts of the Sanctuary, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, its lower part and ledges, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.
v. 20. And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, transgressing by reason of human frailty, and for him that is simple, foolish, easily led astray. So shall ye reconcile the house. "Thus shall the year, newly consecrated by such a beginning, most truly represent the appearance of a holy year. " (Haevernick. )
v. 21. In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the Passover, according to the ancient rule commanding its celebration, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten, the festival of Unleavened Bread and that of the Passover being spoken of as one as early as this.
v. 22. And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin-offering, the idea of the Feast of Atonement thus being transferred also to the Passover.
v. 23. And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days, these sacrifices thus being much more numerous than those commanded in the Old Dispensation, Cf Numbers 28, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin-offering.
v. 24. And he shall prepare a meat-offering of an ephah for a bullock, this also being much more than that required by the Mosaic Law, and an ephah for a ram and an hin of oil for an ephah.
v. 25. In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, at the former time of the Feast of Tabernacles, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin-offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat-offering, and according to the oil. The entire description of the festivals is such as to remind one of the words of Luther: "In the New Testament all days are feast-days. " We are no longer under the Mosaic Law, but bring the sacrifices of our worship in a measure unhampered by the restrictions of a legalistic system.