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v. 9. Thus saith the Lord God, in connecting up this paragraph with the last statement of the previous section, Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, so that they would no more be guilty of the Oppression formerly practiced, and execute judgment and justice, so as to make righteousness the guiding principle in all their actions; take away your exactions from My people saith the Lord God, for this had been done by expelling lawful possessors from their property, as in the case of Naboth.
v. 10. Ye shall have just balances, for weighing, and a just ephah, for dry measure, and a just hath, a correct measure also for liquids.
v. 11. The ephah and the hath shall be of one measure, of the same cubic content, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer and the ephah the tenth part of an homer, the homer thus being the larger standard; the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
v. 12. And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. "The threefold enumeration of shekels, twenty, twenty-five, fifteen, probably refers to coins of different value, representing, respectively, so many shekels, the three collectively making up a maneh. "
v. 13. This is the oblation that ye shall offer, made to the ruler as a gift consecrated to the Lord for purposes of worship: the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, about ten pints; and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley, the same amount of grain in either case.
v. 14. Concerning the ordinance of oil, the regulation concerning the gift of oil, the bath of oil: ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, a homer being equal to about sixty pints, which is an homer of ten baths, for ten baths are an homer;
v. 15. and one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel, of the rich blessings given by the Lord, for a meat-offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace-offerings, also known as thank-offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord God, for the making of an atonement for the sins of the people was the chief purpose of the sacrifices. Cf Lev_1:4.
v. 16. All the people of the land shall give this oblation, making it a special point to render it, for the prince in Israel, who would thereby be enabled to provide for the service of worship and also to give evidence of his representation of the people.
v. 17. And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, the special duty of his office, and meat-offerings, and drink-offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the Sabbaths, in all solemnities, upon all the great festal occasions, of the house of Israel, he furnishing the material for the sacrifices; he shall prepare the sin-offering, and the meat-offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace-offerings to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. In the Church of the New Testament all offerings are gifts of free love to acknowledge the reconciliation made by Jesus Christ.