(a) Standing public burnt-offerings were those used daily morning and evening (Num. xxviii :3; Exod. xxix :38), and on the three great festivals ( Lev. xxiii :37 ; Num. xxviii :t t-27 ; xxix :2-22 ; Lev. xvi :3; comp. 2 Chron. xxxv :12-16).
(b) Private and occasional burnt-offerings were those brought by women rising from childhcd (Lev. xii :6) ; those brought by persons cured of leprosy (ib. xiv :19-22) ; those brought by persons cleansed from issue (ib. xv:t4, sq.) ; and those brought by the Nazarites when rendered unclean by having come in contact with a dead body (Num. vi :9), or after the days of their separation were fulfilled (ib. vi:14)• (c) Nor were the burnt-offerings confined to these cases alone; we find them in use almost on all important occasions, events, and solemnities. whether private or public, and often in very large numbers (comp. Judg. xx :26; I Sam. vii :9; 2 Chron. xxxi :2; t Kings t Chron. xxix :2t ; 2 Chron. xxix :2I ; Ezra vi:t7; viii:35). Heath en also were allowed to offer burnt-offerings in the temple, and Augustus gave orders to sacrifice for him every day in the temple at Jerusalem a burnt-offering, consisting of two lambs and ox (Philo, Opp. ii, p• 592; Joseph, De Bell Jud.
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BUSH (bush), (Ileb. sen-eh', bramble).
This occurs only in the passages referring to Jehovah's appearance• to Moses (Ex. iii: Dcut. xxxiii:t6). The Sept. renders it Odros, bramble bush; which is the same word found Luke xx :37; Acts vii :35, and Luke vi :44. In the last case it is correctly rendered "bramble bush." Figurative. The bush burning and not consumed, which Moses saw near Mount Horeb, represented our earthly nature united to the Son of God, inflamed with the fire of Divine punish ment, and yet not consumed, but supported and refreshed; and the Hebrew nation in the fire of Egyptian cruelty, and the church in the fire of persecution and distress, and yet not in the least injured, because of the good will and favor of him that dwelt, i. e., appeared in the bush (Exod. iii :2,4 ; Acts vii :3o,35 ; Deut. xxxiii :16). ( Brown ).