Teks -- Leviticus 22:19 (NET)

22:19 if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Lev 22:19 - A male

For a burnt-offering, which was always of that kind: but the females were accepted in peace-offerings, and sin-offerings.

JFB: Lev 22:19 - Ye shall offer at your own will

Rather, to your being accepted.

JFB: Lev 22:19 - a male without blemish

This law (Lev 1:3) is founded on a sense of natural propriety, which required the greatest care to be taken in the selection of animals for sacrifice. The reason for this extreme caution is found in the fact that sacrifices are either an expression of praise to God for His goodness, or else they are the designed means of conciliating or retaining His favor. No victim that was not perfect in its kind could be deemed a fitting instrument for such purposes if we assume that the significance of sacrifices is derived entirely from their relation to Jehovah. Sacrifices may be likened to gifts made to a king by his subjects, and hence the reasonableness of God's strong remonstrance with the worldly-minded Jews (Mal 1:8). If the tabernacle, and subsequently the temple, were considered the palace of the great King, then the sacrifices would answer to presents as offered to a monarch on various occasions by his subjects; and in this light they would be the appropriate expressions of their feelings towards their sovereign. When a subject wished to do honor to his sovereign, to acknowledge allegiance, to appease his anger, to supplicate forgiveness, or to intercede for another, he brought a present; and all the ideas involved in sacrifices correspond to these sentiments--those of gratitude, of worship, of prayer, of confession and atonement [BIB. SAC.].

TSK: Lev 22:19

Lev 1:3, Lev 1:10, Lev 4:32; Exo 12:5; Mat 27:4, Mat 27:19, Mat 27:24, Mat 27:54; Luk 23:14, Luk 23:41, Luk 23:47; Joh 19:4; 2Co 5:21; Eph 5:27; Heb 9:14; 1Pe 1:19, 1Pe 2:22-24, 1Pe 3:18

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Lev 22:19 - A male

A male for a burnt-offering, which was always of that kind; but the females were accepted in peace-offerings, Lev 3:1 , and sin-offerings, Lev 4:32 5:6 .

Haydock: Lev 22:19 - Without blemish

Without blemish. To teach us to aim at perfection in all our offerings and performances.

Gill: Lev 22:19 - Ye shall offer at your own will // a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, and of the goats

Ye shall offer at your own will,.... For vows and freewill offerings were at their own option, and depended on their own will and pleasure, and when offered should be with a willing mind, and from their whole heart: or "for good will to you"; as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; or for gracious, acceptation, that is, that they might be well pleasing to God, and acceptable in his sight, so Jarchi; in order to which the following direction was strictly to be observed:

a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, and of the goats; bullocks, sheep, and goats, were the only sorts of beasts, out of which sacrifices were taken, and those that were for burnt offerings were always to be males, and unblemished, see Lev 1:3; but for other offerings, as peace offerings and sin offerings, females might be used, see Lev 3:1. Fowls are not mentioned, though burnt offerings were of them, because it was not required in them, only of beasts, that they should be males, and without blemish; for, as Jarchi observes, these were not rejected on account of a blemish, only for want of a member.