Numbers 15:1-31 - An Offering From The Dough: Domestic Religion

II. A DOMESTIC OFFERING . Thus religion was brought into the house to sanctify a common homely duty. There was something to excite the curiosity of children. It was an opportunity of explaining to them, from whose loving-kindness came their daily bread; teaching them lessons of dependence and gratitude in the seed-time and the harvest, by the mill and the oven. Contrast with this the melancholy picture by Jeremiah of the children gathering the wood, the fathers kindling the fire, and the women kneading dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven ( Deuteronomy 28:5 ; Nehemiah 10:37 ; Psalms 104:14 , Psalms 104:15 ; Jeremiah 7:18 ; Ezekiel 44:30 ; Haggai 1:9 ).—Y.