Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Leviticus 7

Lev 7:7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.

atonement

See Scofield Exodus 29:33, note.

Lev 7:9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it.

meat [See also Lev 7:10, 37.]

Literally meal.

Lev 7:11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.

peace offerings

In the "law of the offerings," the peace-offering is taken out of its place as third of the sweet savour offerings, and placed alone, and after all the non-sweet savour offerings. The explanation is as simple as the fact is beautiful. In revealing the offerings Jehovah works from Himself out to the sinner (see Scofield Exodus 25:10, note). The whole burnt-offering comes first as meeting what is due to the divine affections, and the trespass-offering last as meeting the simplest aspect of sin—its injuriousness. But the sinner begins of necessity with that which lies nearest to a newly awakened conscience—a sense, namely, that because of sin he is at enmity with God. His first need, therefore, is peace with God. And that is precisely the Gospel order. Christ's first message is, "Peace" (John 20:19), afterward He shows them His hands and His side. It is the order as 2 Corinthians 5:18-21: first "the word of reconciliation," Leviticus 7:19, then the trespass- and sin-offering, Leviticus 7:21. Experience thus reverses the order of revelation.

Lev 7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.

unleavened cakes

Leaven. vs. 12, 13; Lev 8:2, 26. (Gen 19:3; Mat 13:33.)

Lev 7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

leavened bread [See also Lev 7:12 above.]

The use of leaven here is significant. Peace with God is something which the believer shares with God. Christ is our peace-offering (Ephesians 2:13). Any thanksgiving for peace must, first of all, present Him. In verse 12 we have this, in type, and so leaven is excluded. In verse 13 it is the offerer who gives thanks for his participation in the peace, and so leaven fitly signifies, that though having peace with God through the work of another, there is still evil in him. This is illustrated in Amos 4:5, where the evil in Israel is before God.

Lev 7:18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.

abomination

Lev 11:10, 41; 19:7.

Lev 7:20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

his uncleanness upon him

Lev 15:3.

Lev 7:21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

soul that shall touch any unclean thing

Lev 11:24, 28.

Lev 7:27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

cut off from his people

Lev 7:20.

Lev 7:30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.

wave offering

Lev 8:27; 9:21; Exo 29:24, 27.

Lev 7:32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest

Num 6:20.

Lev 7:36 Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.

he anointed them

Lev 8:12, 30; Exo 40:13, 15.

Lev 7:37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;

law of the burnt offering

Lev 6:9, 14, 25.