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LA~VS REGULATING DIVINE WORSI;ZIP. 85
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Rlessccl nro they that tl~vell is Thy hor~ne, 0 Lord: thay 811all praise
Thco fo19cver and ever.-PS. 88, B.
Y Gorl's co~mnrtncl Moses norv prescribed ~ ~rl~nt sg~rificcs
B were to bc oflcred, togdhor with the mnnner of oflering
thaln, mcl the times when they were to Inc offered. Some
of theso sacrifiecs vere bloody, 0th-
4: r.-; ers nnhloocly. TIlc former consisted
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of sheep, gonts and oxen; the latter
r-:- t . of flour, ii-nits, oil and mine. When
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the thing ofired ans rvholly masumed
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or \vl~olo-burnt offering, nl~d repro-
, : scntt:tl thc highest act of adoration.
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, most delicr~tn part, was bnnrccl, and
the rest eaten, it was cnllcd either n
sacrifice of tl~nnksgiving for benefits
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sins committed. &loses also institutcc1
the feasts of the Imrd ; for the Lord
had told hixn to cstablisl~, first, tho
feast of the Pascl], or Pnssovcr, in
lr~ulr Plass~ 11r.y rnelnory of tl~e pascl-~al lamb eaten hy
VICS'PJI PKTS,
the chilrlrcn of Israel on thc night
i\rlicn tllo first-born of the Egyptia~ls were dnin, and also in
mcrno1.y of thcir delivcrai~ce frorn Egyptian bondage. For
scveu di~ys they were to eat unnleavencd bread while celebraL
ing tl~nt feast.
3. Secondly, they were to keep holy, seven weeks after,
the fenfit nf Pentecost, in remembrance of the 1i11v given thcm
on Mouut Silmi, On that clay they werc to -bring the first-
fruits of their I~arvcst ns a.11 offcring to the Lwtl. Thirdly,
mhcn the l~nrvost was all gnthercrl in, t11cy tvcre to solemnize