Verse 24
With three bullocks - The Septuagint, the Syriac, and the Arabic, read, a bullock of three years old; and this is probably correct, because we read, 1 Samuel 1:25 , that they slew הפר את eth happar , The bullock. We hear of no more, and we know that a bullock or heifer of three years old was ordinarily used, see Genesis 15:9 .
One ephah of flour - Seven gallons and a half.
A bottle of wine - יין נבל nebel yayin , a skin full of wine. Their bottles for wine and fluids in general were made out of skins of goats, stripped off without being cut up; the places whence the legs were extracted sewed up, as also the lower part; and the top tied. She the notes on Genesis 21:14 , and Matthew 9:17 . These three things, the ox, the flour, and the wine, probably constituted the consecration-offering.
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