The Sacrifices, or Offerings.  They may be divided in several ways, among which the most instructive is as follows:  (1) National Sacrifices, which include (a) Serial, such as daily, weekly, and monthly offerings, (b) Festal, as the Passover, Cycle of Months, etc., (c) for the service of the Holy Place, as holy oil, precious incense, twelve loaves, etc. (2) Official Sacrifices, which include (a) those for the priests, (b) those for princes and rulers, and (c) those for the holy women, Ex. 38:8; 1 Sam. 2:22. (3) Personal Sacrifices, including (a) the blood offering-peace offering, sin offering and trespass offering, (b) the bloodless offerings-the meat, or meal, offering.

Besides this general division, the offerings are divided into two kinds, as follows:  (1) Sweet-savor Offerings.  These are atoning in nature and show that Jesus is acceptable to God because he not only does no sin, but does all good, upon which the sinner is presented to God in all the acceptableness of Christ.  These offerings are (a) the burnt offering, in which Christ willingly offers himself without spot to God for our sins, (b) the meal offering, in which Christ’s perfect humanity, tested and tried, becomes the bread of His people, (c) the peace offering representing Christ as our peace, giving us communion with God, and thanks. (2) Non-Sweet-Savor Offerings.  These are perfect offerings, overlaid with human guilt.  They are (a) the sin offering, which is expiatory, substitutional and efficacious, referring more to sins against God, with little consideration of injury to man, (b) the trespass offering, which refers particularly to sins against man, which are also sins against God.

Analysis.

I. Law of Sacrifices, Chs. 1-7.
  1.  Burnt offering, Ch. 1.

  2.  Meal offering, Ch. 2.

  3.  Peace offering, Ch. 3.

  4.  Sin offering, Ch. 4.

  5.  Trespass (or guilt) offering, 5:1-6:7.

  6.  Instructions to priests concerning the offerings, 6:8-7 end.

II.  Law of Purity.  Chs. 11-22.

  1.  Pure food, animals to be eaten, Ch.  II.

  2.  Pure body and house, rules for cleansing, Chs. 12-13.

3.  Pure nation, offering for sin on the day of atonement, Chs. 16-17.

  4.  Marriages, Ch. 18.

  5.  Pure morals, Chs. 19-20.

  6.  Pure priests, Chs. 21-22.

IV.  Law of Feasts, Chs. 23-25.

  1.  Sacred feasts, Ch. 23.

2.  Parenthesis, or interpolation, lamps of the Tabernacle, shew-bread, the blasphemer, Ch. 24.

  3.  Sacred years, Ch. 25.

V. Special Laws, Chs, 26-27.

  1.  Blessing and cursing, Ch. 26.