You must not offer any of these as the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner, because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 25. Bread, which always accompanies the sacrifices for sin. Holocausts might be offered by the Gentiles, 2 Maccabees 3:3. 1 Ezra 6:9. Josep. Ant. xviii. 7. Seld. Jur. 4. 7.—Them. To reconcile this with verse 18, we must understand because in the sense of in as much as; they are all corrupted, when contrary to these regulations. The strangers shall not be allowed to offer any blemished victim. Hebrew “Neither from the hand of a stranger shall you offer the bread (or victims) of your God of any of these; because … blemishes are in them: they shall not be accepted (by God) for you (or them).” The Chal. and other versions explain it in the same sense. Presents of gold, and so forth were accepted, and kept in the temple. The family of Augustus shewed their generosity in this respect. Philo Legat. Calmet.—Strangers, or pagans, could not offer victims, but they might give money to purchase them. Tirinus.