law of the burnt-offering] That is, the ceremonies which ought to be observed therein. burnt-offering] Though other offerings were burnt, at least in part, this was called the burnt-offering before any other, because it was wholly burnt, and it was the daily sacrifice of a Lambe in the morning, and a Lambe in the evening. See Numbers 28:3. all night] The Priest was to burn it with a slow fire, and by so many pieces one after another, that it might last all night, which required his intentive vigilancie upon the service, and admonished withall, that God was not to be honoured by day, and dishonoured by works of darknesse in the night, but that men should set their waking thoughts towards him upon their beds, who watcheth over them all the night, Psalms 4:4. And the morning sacrifice was to be burned in the like leisurely manner, unlesse some other sacrifice to be performed after it, required a greater and quicker fire.