Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 28:2

2 Command the children of Israel , and say unto them, My offering and * my bread for my sacrifices made by fire for a † sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.

God here repeats some of the former laws about sacrifices, not without great reason, partly because they had been generally discontinued for 38 years together; partly because the generation to which the former laws had been given about these things was wholly dead, and it was fit the new generation should be instructed about them, as their parents were; partly to renew the testimonies of Gods grace and mercy, notwithstanding their frequent forfeitures thereof by their horrid Apostacies and Rebellions; and principally because they were now ready to enter into that land, in which they were obliged to put these things in practise, Deut. 12. 8. &c.

According to this translation the sence is, My offering, i. e. my offerings or sacrifices, and my bread, i. e. either my shewbread, or rather my meat-offering made of bread or meal, for my sacrifices made by fire, i. e. which is to accompany my burnt-offerings. Or thus, My offering, to wit, my bread, (i. e.) my meat-offering, which was made of bread or meal, which is oft expressed by this very name of Korban, or offering as Levit. 2. 1. and 6. 20. but because korban signifies not onely a meat-offering but other offerings also, as Lev. 7. 37, 38. therefore he limits that general word by adding, my bread) with (so the Hebrew Lamed is oft used, as Gen. 46. 26. Ezra 1. 5. and 2. 63. &c.) my sacrifices made by fire, which may be understood either 1. generally for all the sacrifices, as that phrase is sometimes taken, as 1 Sam. 2. 28. where it must needs be so meant, because the burnt-offerings properly so called were not given to the Priest but reserved to God himself, and the Priests portion lay in the other sacrifices onely, or 2. specially and properly for burnt-offerings, and so under them, as the most eminent kind, are contained in all other sacrifices, as under the meat-offering here is contained the drink-offering. And according to this translation and explication these words contain a full and general rule comprehending all the particulars following in this chapter, as in reason they ought to do, and which otherwise they do not.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1+ letters]ev. 5. 11. & [illegible: 1 word] 6, 8.; [illegible: 1 word]. 1. [illegible: 1+ letters], 12. [illegible: 1 word]. a savor [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word].