Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 15:13
All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD.
13. homeborn ] i.e. native Israelites.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
13-16. a strangerone who hadbecome a proselyte. There were scarcely any of the nationalprivileges of the Israelites, in which the Gentile stranger mightnot, on conforming to certain conditions, fully participate.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner,…. Meaning that all Israelites should with their sacrifices bring their meat and drink offerings of the quantity directed to as above:
in offering an offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord; when they offered any burnt offerings or peace offerings: the Jews say, that all sacrifices, whether of the congregation or of a private person, require drink offerings, excepting the firstborn, the tithes, the passover, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; but the sin offering of the leper, and his trespass offering, require them h: the Targum of Jonathan is,
“all that are born in Israel, and not among the people, shall make these drink offerings thus;”
for though an uncircumcised Gentile might bring burnt offerings and peace offerings, yet not meat offerings and drink offerings with them;
[See comments on Le 22:18]; only such as were proselytes of righteousness, as in Nu 15:14.
h Misn. Menachot, c. 9. 6.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Verses 13-16:
The sacrificial laws applied alike to native-born Israelites and to non-Israelites.
“Stranger,” gar, “sojourner;” proselutos (Septuagint) from which “proselyte” comes. The term likely applies to those who were not Israelites but who were living as residents in the Land, and not to those who were merely passing through on business.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(13) All that are born of the country.The Targum of Jonathan is, all that are born in Israel, and not among the people. It seems clear, however, from Num. 15:14 that the reference in this verse is to the indigenous Israelites.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
13-16. These rules apply to the sacrifices of aliens living in the Holy Land as well as to the native-born Israelite.
These things The meat and drink offerings.
A stranger Septuagint, proselyte. The position of the Israelites as a distinct nation under special divine protection powerfully attracted the neighbouring peoples. Hence the law provides for their incorporation into Israel. Circumcision was the condition of any fellowship with the proselyte or stranger, as rendered in the Authorized Version. He is required to keep the sabbath, to be present at the passover, the feast of weeks, of tabernacles, and the day of atonement, to observe the laws of prohibited marriages, to abstain from blood, from Molech worship, and blasphemy. But he could not hold land (see Lev 25:23, note) nor intermarry with the descendants of Aaron. See Lev 21:14, note. The instances of wholesale proselytism are the Shechemites, Kenites, Gibeonites, Cherethites, Pelethites, and Nethenim. Instances of individuals are Doeg, the Edomite; Uriah, the Hittite; Araunah, the Jebusite; and two in the face of an express prohibition Zelek, the Ammonite, and Ithmah, the Moabite. Deuteronomy 23, 3. Later rabbins regarded the following classes unfit for admission within the covenant: (1.) Love-proselytes, drawn by the hope of gaining the beloved one; (2.) Man-for-woman or woman-for-man proselytes, where either follows the religion of the other as a matter of convenience; (3.) Esther-proselytes, to escape danger; (4.) King’s-table-proselytes, mere office-seekers; (5.) Lion-proselytes, persons impelled by a superstitious dread of some divine judgment, as were the Samaritans. 2Ki 17:26. See Lev 23:22, note.
Before the Lord Equal in religious privileges.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
It is very striking to observe, even in the wilderness state of the church, and while the LORD was seemingly governing his people, to the exclusion of all other nations, how here and there we find distant allusions made to the gospel state, when the LORD would gather his people both Jew and Gentile into one fold. Though in the relations of civil society, very different was the law to strangers compared to that shown to Israel, yet in religion one ordinance was to be for both, Yes l one LORD JESUS CHRIST, one GOD and FATHER of all, who is above all, and through ally and in all; one precious salvation is enough for all. Delightful to this purport was the prophet’s prediction when led by the HOLY GHOST, to look into the gospel church and describe its leading principle; when the LORD should be king over all the earth, then there should be one LORD and his name one. Zec 14:9 .