Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 21:24
And Moses told [it] unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
And Moses told [it] to Aaron, and to his sons,…. What God had said to him concerning the priests defiling themselves for the dead, both common priests and high priest, and concerning their marriages and their blemishes; that they might be careful not to transgress the laws and rules given them concerning those things:
and to all the children of Israel; to the heads of the tribes and elders of the people, and by them to the whole, that they might know who were fit, and who not, to put their sacrifice into their hands, to offer for them: Jarchi thinks this was to warn the sanhedrim concerning the priests, whose business it was to examine and judge who were fit for service and who not; for so we are told k, that in the chamber Gazith, or of hewn stone, the great sanhedrim of Israel sat and judged the priests, and rejected some and received others.
k Misn. Middot, c. 5. sect. 3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Moses communicated these instructions to Aaron and his sons.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(24) And unto all the children of Israel.These regulations about the conduct and qualifications of the priesthood, which God imparted to Moses, the latter not only communicated to the high priest and his sons the priests, but to the representatives of the people, who, as the community, had the supervision of the priests. The sacerdotal laws were administered and enforced by the elders or Sanhedrim, who were the representatives of the people. (See Lev. 21:21.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
REFLECTIONS
READER! let you and I pause over this chapter, and with an eye of faith, behold that great high priest of our profession sweetly pointed out. Let us not forget that this JESUS of ours, is, and hath been, our Priest forever; for he hath an unchangeable priesthood. And while, therefore, we read of these priests, taken from among men, who were not suffered to continue priests, by reason of death, thus prohibited from all ceremonial uncleanness; let you and I look beyond the letter of the law to him who is the Spirit of it, and contemplate his immaculate unspotted holiness, whose human nature united to the GODHEAD, forever separated him from all uncleanness. He could and did bear our sins, in his own body on the tree, and while borne down on the cross with the burden of sin, partook of none of its defilements. His church he betrothed to himself, as a chaste virgin: and all the mystical members of it, are now as chaste virgins presented unto CHRIST: without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; being brought before him as holy in his holiness, and without blemish, before him in love. Dearest JESUS! be thou my holiness, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. And since thou hast so loved all thy people, as not only to wash them from their sins in thine own blood, but hast made them kings and priests to GOD and the FATHER; Oh! give both to thy ministers and people, grace to separate themselves from the pollutions of the world, and to come out from among them, touch no unclean thing. We would pray to be holy, as thou art holy, and that through thy righteousness and salvation, the gracious acceptation of our persons and our prayers, may come up before GOD; that that sweet promise may be our portion, in which the LORD hath said; I will be a Father you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the LORD Almighty.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Lev 21:24 And Moses told [it] unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
Ver. 24. And to all the children of Israel. ] Who were to see that these things were thus done.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
children. Hebrew sons.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Aaron: Mal 2:1-7, Col 4:17, 1Ti 1:18, 2Ti 2:2
Reciprocal: Lev 23:44 – General