Although every sin-offering had a reference to the Lord Jesus Christ, the kid offered on this day by the masses of the people is treated in Heb. xiii. as having a very special application to Him, from the blood having been carried within the veil and sprinkled on the mercy seat, and from the body having been burned without the camp. So Jesus, having suffered without the gate, and having obtained eternal redemption for us, not by the blood of others, but by His own blood, having “given Himself a ransom for all,” entered not into the holy places made with hands, but into Heaven itself, there to appear in the presence of God for us.
Again, in the scape-goat, which was the complement of the sin-offering, we have a reference to the Lord Jesus bearing away our sins “in His own body on the tree,” so that they should be no more remembered against us (1 Pet. ii. 24).
9th. There remains one more appointed festival, the Feast of Tabernacles, or ingathering (Exod. xxiii. 16) on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when the crops of wine and oil had completed the harvest labours. It lasted seven days, during which numerous sacrifices were ordained, viz.,—
The 1st day, 13 bullocks, 2 rams, 14 lambs,
2nd „ 12 „ 2 „ 14 „
3rd „ 11 . „ 2 „ 14 „
4th „ 10 „ 2 „ 14 „
5th „ 9 „ 2 „ 14 „
6th „ 8 „ 2 „ 14 „
7th „ 7 „ 2 „ 14 „