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Commentaries on Exodus 29:23

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Exodus 29 This chapter gives an account of the form and order of the consecration of Aaron and his sons to the priestly office; preparatory to which Moses is ordered to take a young bullock, two rams, bread, cakes, and wafers unleavened, and bring them and Aaron and his sons to the door of the congregation, where the ceremony was to be publicly performed, and which began with...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And one loaf of bread,.... Of unleavened bread, as in Exodus 29:2 large bread is meant, as Ben Melech observes, for the rest were cakes and wafers, as follows: and one cake of oiled bread; which was made of flour and oil mixed and tempered together: and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread; which was anointed with oil and crossed, as the Jewish writers say: that [is] before the Lord;...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

Particular orders are given in this chapter, I. Concerning the consecration of the priests, and the sanctification of the altar, ver. 1-37. II. Concerning the daily sacrifice, ver. 38-41. To which gracious promises are annexed that God would own and bless them in all their services, ver. 42, &c. The Consecration of the Priests. (b. c. 1491.) 1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to...