SEV Biblia, Chapter 22:27
El buey, o el cordero, o la cabra, cuando naciere, siete días estará mamando de su madre; mas desde el octavo día en adelante será acepto para ofrenda de sacrificio encendido al SEÑOR.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 22:27
Verse 27. When a bullock-is brought forth] This is a most unfortunate as well as absurd translation. The creature called an ox is a bull castrated; surely then a bullock was never yet brought forth! The original word rw shor signifies a bull, a bullock, or indeed any thing of the neat kind: here, even common sense required that it should be translated calf; and did I not hold myself sacredly bound to print the text of the common version with scrupulous exactness, I should translate the former clause of this verse thus, and so enter it into the text: When a CALF, or a LAMB, or a KID is brought forth, instead of, When a bullock, a sheep, or a goat is brought forth, the absurdity of which is glaring. Seven days under the dam] In vindication of the propriety of this precept it may be justly asserted, that the flesh of very young animals is comparatively innutritive, and that animal food is not sufficiently nourishing and wholesome till the animal has arrived at a certain growth, or acquired the perfection of its nature. There is something brutish in eating the young of beast or fowl before the hair and hoofs are perfect in the one, and the feathers and claws in the other. Before this period their flesh is not good for food. See the note on "chap. ix. 1".
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 27. When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth , etc.] Those three are only mentioned, because they were only made use of in sacrifice, to which this law refers: then it shall be seven days under the dam ; whether a calf, or a lamb, or a kid of the goats; it was not to be taken from its dam and killed, either for food or sacrifice, before it was seven days old: Fagius says, the Hebrews give two reasons why a creature might not be offered before the eighth day; one is, that a sabbath might pass over it, nothing being perfect and consistent without it, that giving, as they say perfection and consistence to all the things of the world; and the other, as the heavens and the earth being perfected in seven days, a creature which lives so long seems to be, as it were, perfect; but he observes, if we inquire after the mystical sense of it, a better reason is to be given, namely, that Christ, the type of all the sacrifices, was not to be offered, or suffer death in his infancy, which Herod contrived, but at man’s estate; and to show that no man is fit to be a propitiatory sacrifice, through weakness and inability, being unable to stand before the justice of God, only Christ, in whom is perfection of strength: and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the Lord ; become an acceptable burnt offering to God; so Pliny says, that the young of sheep are fit for sacrifice on the eighth day, and of an ox on the thirtieth day; (see Exodus 22:30).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Laws concerning the priests and sacrifices.
--In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests an sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let u recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindere by any thing from the discharge of his office. Let us also remember that the Lord requires us to reverence his name, his truths, his ordinances, and commandments. Let us beware of hypocrisy, and examin ourselves concerning our sinful defilements, seeking to be purifie from them in the blood of Christ, and by his sanctifying Spirit Whoever attempts to expiate his own sin, or draws near in the pride of self-righteousness, puts as great an affront on Christ, as he who come to the Lord's table from the gratification of sinful lusts. Nor can the minister who loves the souls of the people, suffer them to continue in this dangerous delusion. He must call upon them, not only to repent of their sins, and forsake them; but to put their whole trust in the atonement of Christ, by faith in his name, for pardon and acceptanc with God; thus only will the Lord make them holy, as his own people __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
שׁור 7794 או 176 כשׂב 3775 או 176 עז 5795 כי 3588 יולד 3205 והיה 1961 שׁבעת 7651 ימים 3117 תחת 8478 אמו 517 ומיום 3117 השׁמיני 8066 והלאה 1973 ירצה 7521 לקרבן 7133 אשׁה 801 ליהוה׃ 3068
