Exodus 29:40

Exo 29:40. A tenth-deal, or tenth part of an ephah, is about three quarts. A hin is five quarts.

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Which is about a pint.

That is, an Omer, read Exod. 16:16.

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Verse 40. A tenth deal of flour] Deal signifies a part, from the Anglo-Saxon [Anglo-Saxon], to divide; hence [Anglo-Saxon], a part, a portion taken from the whole. From Nu 28:5 we learn that this tenth deal was the tenth part of an ephah, which constituted what is called an omer. See Ex 16:36; and See Clarke on Ex 16:16 of the same chapter, where an account is given of different measures of capacity among the Hebrews. The omer contained about three quarts English.

The fourth part of a hin] The hin contained one gallon and two pints. The fourth part of this was about one quart and a half of a pint.

Drink-offering.] A libation poured out before the Lord. See its meaning, Le 7:1, &c.

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40. The minḥâh, or ‘meal-offering’ (see Leviticus 2), as it is expressly termed in the || Num_28:5, which in P is the regular concomitant of a burnt-offering (see Num_15:1-12; and cf. Num_28:9; Num_28:12-13, &c.).

a tenth part (of an ephah)] Heb. ‘issârôn, only in P (28 times). The ephah was probably about 8 gallons, so the ‘issârôn would be about 6½ pints (see further Kennedy, in DB. iv. 912b, near the bottom).

fine flour] Gen_18:6 and often: as the material of a meal-offering Lev_2:1; Lev_2:4-5; Lev_2:7, and elsewhere.

mingled with … oil] as v. 2, Lev_2:4-5 al. A ‘hin’ (Jos. Ant. iii. 8. 3) was 1/6 of the ‘bath’ (the equivalent for liquid measure of the ephah for dry measure, Eze_45:11) = about 1⅓ gallon; ¼ of a hin would thus be about 2⅔ pints. For the oil of superior quality called beaten oil, see on Exo_27:20 : this is the only minḥâh for which it is prescribed.

a drink offering] or libation; also a frequent concomitant of the burnt-offering (Num_15:5; Num_15:7; Num_15:10; cf. Num_28:9; Num_28:14; Num_29:18; Num_29:21, &c.). According to Sir_50:15 it was poured out at the base of the altar. The amount, ¼ hin for a lamb, is the same as in Num_15:5; Num_28:14; for larger animals the amount was greater.

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And with the one lamb a tenth deal,.... That is, the tenth part of an "ephah", as Jarchi and Aben Ezra, which is an "omer", and held as much as a man could eat in one day, or more, see Exo 16:18,

of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; this was a meat, or, rather bread offering, which went along with the daily sacrifice, and typified Christ the food of his people, who is compared to a corn of wheat; is the finest of the wheat, and the bread of God, which came down from heaven, and gives life, food; and nourishment to men; and the "beaten oil" may signify the graces of the Spirit in him, and the exercise of them through the many trials and sufferings he endured, and which make him savoury food to his people, as a crucified Christ is:

and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering; a "hin", Aben Ezra says, was an Egyptian measure, but what reason he had for it does not appear; according to Ainsworth, the fourth part of it was a pint and a half; but according to Bishop Cumberland (n), who has with great exactness calculated the Jewish measures, it was a quart and above half a pint; this was poured out upon the altar. Jarchi says there were two silver basins on the top of the altar, and there were bored in them like two small nostrils, and wine was put in the middle of them; and it flowed and went out by the way of the nostrils, and fell upon the top of the altar, and from thence descended to the bottom: this wine poured may either signify the blood of Christ shed, or poured out for the remission of sin; or the love of Christ very plentifully manifested in the offering up of himself for men, and the acceptableness of to God: and, moreover, as sacrifices are called the bread of God, and he makes as it were a feast of them, feeding on them with delight and pleasure, it was necessary there should be wine to complete the banquet; wherefore wine is said to cheer both God and man, Jdg 9:13, alluding to the libations of wine in sacrifices.

(n) Of Scripture Weights and Measures, c. 3. p. 86.

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Part of an epha, half of which was used in each sacrifice.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

A tenth deal; the tenth part of an ephah, as is evident from Num 28:5, which is an omer, Exo 16:36.

An hin was a measure for liquid things, as the ephah was for dry things, containing six pints of our measure.

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40. A tenth deal of flour — The tenth part of an ephah is probably meant, which was an omer. See Exo_16:36, note. Compare Num_5:15. Supposed to have been about three pounds in weight and not far from three quarts in measure. The hin was a liquid measure containing a little more than a gallon. The flour mingled with the beaten oil (Exo_27:20) constituted the meat offering, on which see notes at Leviticus 2, and the wine is here expressly called a drink offering. This was a form of worship old as the days of the patriarchs, (see on Gen_35:14,) and consisted in a devotional pouring out the wine as an oblation before or upon the altar of burnt offerings. It was not to be poured out on the altar of incense, (Exo_30:9.)

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A tenth deali.e. , a "tenth part." The tenth part of an ephah is no doubt meant. This was sometimes called "an omen", (Exo_16:36) and would be about three pounds weight of flour, or a little more. One fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. The word hin is said to be Egyptian. It occurs here for the first time. The bin was the sixth part of a bath, and probably contained about one pint and a half English. The fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering. The application of the "drink-offerings" is uncertain. Josephus says (Ant. Jud: 3:9, that they were poured out round the brazen altar. But the analogy of the "meat offering" makes it probable that a portion only was thus treated, while the greater part belonged to the priests. In the entire provision by which burnt and peace-offering were to be necessarily accompanied with meat-offerings and drink-offerings, we can scarcely be wrong in seeing an arrangement made especially for the convenience of the priests.

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A tenth deal, or tenth part of an ephah, is about three quarts. A hin is five quarts.

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General Information:

Yahweh continues speaking to Moses.

a tenth ... the fourth part

"1/10 ... 1/4" (See: Fractions)

ephah

An ephah is 22 liters. (See: Biblical Volume)

hin

A hin is 3.7 liters. (See: Biblical Volume)

translationWords

lamb

tenth

oil

olive

wine

drink offering

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ועשרן סלת A TENTH DEAL OF FLOUR — i. e. a tenth part of an ephah: a capacity of forty three and a fifth eggs (cf. Rashi on Exodus 16:36).

בשמן כתית [MINGLED] WITH OIL, BEATEN — Not to make this obligatory is it stated “beaten” but to make it lawful if such oil be at all used. Since it is stated, (Exodus 27:20) “beaten for the light” and the implication is that for the light it must be beaten and not for the meal-offerings, one might think that this is expressly stated in order to declare it unfitting for the meal-offerings; therefore it states here “beaten”, meaning that for the meal-offerings beaten oil may be used if one so wishes. And it is stated “beaten for the light”, only to exclude the meal-offerings from the command: that beaten oil is not obligatory for them — that oil obtained from olives ground in a mill is also permissible for them (Menachot 86b).

רבע ההין THE FOURTH PART OF A HIN — three logs.

ונסך AND A LIBATION — for the bowls, as we learn in Treatise Sukkah 48a: there were two silver bowls above the altar pierced with holes, as it were like two slender nostrils. He poured the wine into these and it ran through and gushed forth by way of this “nostril”, falling upon the top of the altar. Thence it ran down into the subterranean channels in the case of the altar in the Temple, but in the case of the copper altar in the Tabernacle it ran down from the altar to the ground.

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