John Gill Commentary Numbers 15

The Lord spoke unto Moses
After the murmurings of the Israelites by reason of the spies, (Numbers 14:2) ; and their being threatened with a consumption of them in the wilderness on that account, (Numbers 14:12) ; and their defeat at Hormah, (Numbers 14:45) : and lest their posterity should be discouraged, and despair of ever enjoying the good land:

saying ;
as follows.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them
The younger sort of them, such as were under twenty years of age; for those of that age and upwards, who had murmured against the Lord, had been assured by him with an oath that they should die in the wilderness, and not see the land of Canaan, (Numbers 14:29) ; whereas those Moses is here bid to speak to were such that should possess it:

when you come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto ,
you ;
the land of Canaan, the grant of which is here renewed to them, and an assurance given of their coming into it and settlement in it; and that they should have dwelling places there for their several tribes and families.

And will make an offering by fire unto the Lord, a burnt
offering
The first of these respects such offerings by fire, which were not wholly burnt, but part of them were eaten by the priests, (Deuteronomy 18:1) ; and the latter such as were wholly burnt, unless the latter can be thought to be only an explanation of the former:

or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering ;
these were peace offerings, some of which were for thanksgiving, and others were either a vow or a freewill offering, as here: see (Leviticus 7:11Leviticus 7:12Leviticus 7:16) ;

or in your solemn feasts ;
as the passover, pentecost of which, and the offerings in them, see (Leviticus 23:4–37) (Numbers 28:1–29:40) ;

to make a sweet savour unto the Lord ;
for acceptance with him:

of the herd or of the flock ;
a bullock of the one, a lamb or kid of the goats of the other; fowls are not mentioned, because burnt offerings of them required no drink offerings ^F6 .

FOOTNOTES:

• F6: Maimon. Maaseh Hakorbanot, c. 2. sect. 2.

Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the Lord
Be it of either kind before mentioned:

bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour, mingled with the
fourth [part] of an hin of oil ;
this was made of the tenth part of an ephah, or of an omer of fine wheaten flour, which was the quantity of about three quarts; and which was mixed and macerated with the fourth part of an hin, or with a quart and more than half a pint of oil: see (Exodus 29:40) ; rather this should be called a bread offering.

And the fourth [part] of an hin of wine
The same measure with the oil, and this was wine of the grapes, as the Targum of Jonathan; other sorts of wine might not be used for the purpose mentioned:

for a drink offering shalt thou prepare ;
with the meat offering, to go along with every burnt offering and peace offering; which, as they were the food of God and the provision of his house, it was proper there should be of every kind fit for an entertainment, as flesh, bread, and wine. These were to go

with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb ;
if there were more than one, then a greater quantity in proportion was required.