You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to. Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
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Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer. Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water. You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to. Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
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You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
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Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
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Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the offering of thy hand;
but thou shalt eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land.
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- Not to eat the flesh of a sin offering prepared within the sanctuary
- Not to eat sacrificial flesh that was not offered according to prescribed procedure
- Not to eat the second tithe of grain outside Jerusalem
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Cross-references (28)
- Deuteronomy 12:7 (v18) There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which…
- 2 Chronicles 31:4-21 (v19) Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves…
- Deuteronomy 14:23 (v18) You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine,…
- Deuteronomy 26:14 (v17) I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened…
- Nehemiah 10:34-39 (v19) We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our…
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- Deuteronomy 12:5 (v18) But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you…
- Deuteronomy 12:6 (v17) You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings,…
- Deuteronomy 14:22-29 (v17) You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year. You shall eat before Yahweh your God,…
- Deuteronomy 14:27-29 (v19) You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. At the end of every three years…
- 2 Chronicles 11:13-14 (v19) The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him out of all their territory. For the Levites left their pasture lands and…
- 1 Corinthians 9:10-14 (v19) or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes…
- Leviticus 27:30-32 (v17) “ ‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh. If a man…
- Numbers 18:21-24 (v17) “To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve,…
- Deuteronomy 12:11 (v17) then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that…
- Deuteronomy 12:11-12 (v18) then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that…
- Deuteronomy 12:19 (v18) Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
- Deuteronomy 12:26 (v17) Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose.
- Deuteronomy 15:20 (v18) You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
- Deuteronomy 26:12 (v17) When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to…
- Psalms 32:11 (v18) Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
- Psalms 68:3 (v18) But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
- Proverbs 3:17 (v18) Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
- Isaiah 12:3 (v18) Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
- Acts 2:46 (v18) Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and…
- Acts 16:34 (v18) He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
- 1 Corinthians 10:31 (v18) Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
- Galatians 5:22 (v18) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
- Philippians 3:1-3 (v18) Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe. Beware of…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v17 Meaning, whatsoever was offered to the Lord, might not…
Meaning, whatsoever was offered to the Lord, might not be eaten, but where he had appointed.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On v19 Deu 12:19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake…
Deu 12:19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
Ver. 19. That thou forsake not the Levite.] But look to his livelihood; since, Ad tenuitatem beneficiorum necessario sequitur ignorantia sacerdotum; small allowances make either ignorant or negligent ministers. {a}
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{a} Panormitan.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv17, 19 Thou; either,
Thou; either,
1. Thou, O Levite; or rather,
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2. Thou, O Israelite, whom he distinguisheth from the Levite, Deu 12:18, accordingly as the following particulars agree to the one or to the other of you. Within thy gates, i.e. in your private habitations, here opposed to the place of God’s worship, Deu 12:18.
The tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil. Here seems to be a great difficulty, not yet sufficiently observed nor cleared by interpreters. There were divers kinds of tithes:
1. The tithes given to the Levites out of all, of which Num 18:21,24; Deu 14:22; Neh 10:31.
2. The tithe of those tithes, which were to be given by the Levites to the priests, of which Num 18:21,24; Deu 14:29; Neh 10:37.
3. The third year’s tithe, of which Deu 14:28. To which some add another tithe, which they call the second tithe, which they say was taken after the Levites’ tithe was laid by. Now each of these hath its difficulty. It seems this place cannot be understood,
1. Of the Levites’ tithe; partly, because it might seem a great and wholly superfluous trouble to carry all their tithes up to Jerusalem, and to carry them back to their several habitations for their use; partly, because those were holy to the Lord, Lev 27:30, and not to be eaten by the people, Lev 27:31; whereas these belonged principally to the people, the Levites being only taken in as accessories to eat with them, as it is here, Deu 12:18; and partly, because those might be eaten in every place, as it is expressly affirmed, Num 18:31 Nor,
2. Of the tithe of the tithe, which was the priest’s; and neither Levites nor others might eat of it, except they were of or in the priest’s household. Nor,
3. Of the third year’s tithe, because that was to be eaten within their gates, Deu 14:28,29, as this was not.
I do therefore humbly conceive that this is meant of the second tithe, spoken of Deu 14:22; and that this was the very same tithe with that third year’s tithe, with this only difference, that in the third year they were to eat them together with the Levites within their gates, Deu 14:28,29, but in the two first years they were to eat them, together with the Levites also, in the place of God’s worship, as it is prescribed here and Deu 14:23. And that it is one land the same tithe which is spoken of Deu 14:22, and Deu 12:28, seems more than probable, both because they are called by the same name, all the tithe of their increase, and because that Deu 12:28 manifestly looks back to that Deu 12:22, and because otherwise every third year the Israelites were to pay three several tithes one after another, which Scripture no where affirms, and it seems to make the people’s burdens and the Levites’ provisions too great. For the objection taken from Deu 26:12,13, it shall be considered in its place. And the reason of that difference of place, and why the same tithes were eaten for two years together in Jerusalem, and the third in their own gates, seems to be this, that in the two first years there was a more special regard had to the Levites, who were very much conversant in Jerusalem, where those tithes were then eaten, and in the third year there is a respect had to the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are mentioned as joint sharers with the Levites in this third year’s tithe, whose occasions and obligations of coming to Jerusalem were not so many nor strong as those of the Levites, and therefore they were to be found generally within their gates, where these were to be eaten. And whereas the objection made before against the chargeable and useless carrying of the first tithes to Jerusalem might be applied here, it is answered there, and it is provided, that when they lived at a great distance from Jerusalem they might turn it into money and bestow it there, Deu 14-26, which both confirms the objection as to the first tithe, for which no such provision was made, and answers it as to this, where such a remedy is expressed. And whereas it may be pleaded on the behalf of the first, or the Levitical tithe, that those tithes were brought to Jerusalem, and that there were store-houses or chambers in the temple appointed for the receiving of the tithes, 2Ch 31:5,6,11,12; Ne 10:37,38; 12:44, it may be answered, that those chambers, being only thirty-eight in number, and each of them, except two, but six cubits broad and twelve cubits long, were altogether incapable of all those tithes, and seem principally, if not solely, appointed for the priests’ tithes, and not for all them neither, but only for so much of them as would serve for the use and necessity of those priests and Levites too that were in the actual ministration.
The firstlings of thy herds, or of thy flock. As the tithes now mentioned were not the Levitical, but second tithes, as hath been discoursed; so these firstlings do not seem to be the first firstlings, which being appropriated to the Levites were not to be eaten by any of the people, except those of or in the Levites’ families, but the second firstlings, which were the first which the owner could dispose of, and which, in conformity to the second tithes, he is required to set apart for this use.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv17–19 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe…
Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil,.... This cannot be understood of the tithe given to the Levites, or of that which the Levites out of theirs gave to the priests, for that was only eaten by them; but of the tithe which every three years they were to lay up within their gates, and which they were to eat with their families and others; but the other two years they were to carry it to the place the Lord chose, or turn it into money, and when they came thither purchase with it what they pleased, and eat it, they and their household, and others with them, before the Lord; see Deu 14:22,
the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flocks; these also the firstborn males belonged to the Lord, and so to the priests, and could not be eaten by the people any where; and must be understood either of the next firstlings, which were the people's, or of the female firstlings, which they might devote to the Lord, and so not allowed to eat at home, but in the chosen place:
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nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings; which were species of peace offerings, and so to be eaten not in their own cities, but in the place appointed:
or heave offerings of thine hand; the firstfruits; see Deu 26:1 these were such they were not bound to bring, but brought them freely.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v17 Within thy gates - That is, in your private…
Within thy gates - That is, in your private habitations, here opposed to the place of God's worship.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v19 Verse 19. Forsake not the Levite] These had no…
Verse 19. Forsake not the Levite] These had no inheritance, and were to live by the sanctuary: if therefore the offerings were withheld by which the Levites were supported, they of course must perish. Those who have devoted themselves to the service of God in ministering to the salvation of the souls of men, should certainly be furnished at least with all the necessaries of life. Those who withhold this from them sin against their own mercies, and that ordinance of God by which a ministry is established for the salvation of souls.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v17 Deu 12:17. Within thy gates — That is, in…
Deu 12:17. Within thy gates — That is, in your private habitations, here opposed to the place of God’s worship.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv17–18 Tithes. These were of an extraordinary nature, destined for…
Tithes. These were of an extraordinary nature, destined for feasts, chap. xiv. 22., and Leviticus xxvii. 30. The usual tithes belonged entirely to the Levitical tribe. (Calmet) --- First-born, or the most excellent, ver. 11., and Exodus xii. 11, 12. The first-born, if it proved to be without defect, and a male, was given to the priests, Numbers xviii. 15. --- Voluntarily. If the thing was vowed to the Lord without restriction, it fell to the share of the priests alone: but if the person specified that he intended it for a peace-offering, &c., the priest could only claim what was allotted to him by the law. (Calmet) --- Hands. The fruits of trees, in the fourth year, may be insinuated. (Josephus, [Antiquities?] iv. 8.) (Menochius)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v17 17. Thou mayest not eat… the tithe of thy…
17. Thou mayest not eat… the tithe of thy corn — The tithes mentioned differ from those in Lev_27:30-32. Those include all the products of the flock, the herd, and the field, and are spoken of as the Lord’s. The Deuteronomic tithes seem to be limited to the corn, wine, and oil. “They are nowhere characterized as the Lord’s, but are spoken of as belonging to the Israelites, to be eaten in sacrificial meals, or as a tithe to be set apart once in three years for the benefit of the poor.” — CURTISS, Levitical Priests, p. 38.
Firstlings — It is said that an unanswerable contradiction is found here to the regulations as to firstlings in Num_18:15-18. “There the Lord is represented as intimating to Aaron, in respect to the firstlings, that ‘the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and the heave shoulder, it shall be thine;’ but it is not said that the priests are to have all the flesh of the firstlings, nor is it said here that the people are to have all.” — CURTISS, Levitical Priests, p. 40.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv17–18 (17) The tithe.—This is understood by Jewish commentators of…
(17) The tithe.—This is understood by Jewish commentators of what is called “the second tithe.” The disposal of it is more particularly specified in Deu_14:22-29. (See also on Deu_26:12, &c.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv17, 19 Vers. 17-19. (Cf. vers. 6, 7, 12.) Thou mayest…
Vers. 17-19. (Cf. vers. 6, 7, 12.) Thou mayest not eat; literally, thou art not able to eat; i.e. there is a legal inability to this. So the verb to be able (lkOy) is frequently used. (cf. Ge 43; Num_9:6; Deu_16:5 Deu_17:15, etc.)
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Alexander MacLaren 1905 · Public Domain On v18
Deuteronomy
THE EATING OF THE PEACE-OFFERING
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Deu 12:18.
There were three bloody sacrifices, the sin-offering, the burnt-offering, and the peace-offering. In all three expiation was the first idea, but in the second of them the act of burning symbolised a further thought, namely, that of offering to God, while in the third, the peace-offering, there was added to both of these the still further thought of the offerer’s participation with God, as symbolised by the eating of the sacrifice. So we have great verities of the most spiritual religion adumbrated in this external rite. The rind is hard and forbidding, the kernel is juicy and sweet.
I. Communion with God based on atonement.
II. Feeding on Christ.
What was sacrifice becomes food. The same Person and facts, apprehended by faith, are, in regard to their bearing on the divine government, the ground of pardon, and in regard to their operation within us, the source of spiritual sustenance. Christ for us is our pardon; Christ in us is our life.
III. The restoration to the offerer of all which he lays on God’s altar.
The sacrifice was transformed and elevated into a sacrament. By being offered the sacrifice was ennobled. The offerer did not lose what he laid on the altar, but it came back to him, far more precious than before. It was no longer mere food for the body, and to eat it became not an ordinary meal, but a sacrament and means of union with God. It was a hundredfold more the offerer’s even in this life. All its savour was more savoury, all its nutritive qualities were more nutritious. It had suffered a fiery change, and was turned into something more rich and rare.
That is blessedly true as to all which we lay on God’s altar. It is far more ours than it ever was or could be, while we kept it for ourselves, and our enjoyment of, and nourishment from, our good things, when offered as sacrifices, are greater than when we eat our morsel alone. If we make earthly joys and possessions the materials of our sacrifice, they will not only become more joyful and richer, but they will become means of closer union with Him, instead of parting us from Him, as they do when used in selfish disregard of Him.
Nor must we forget the wonderful thought, also mirrored in this piece of ancient ritual, that God delights in men’s sacrifices and surrenders and services. ‘If I were hungry, I would not tell thee,’ said the Psalmist in God’s name in regard to outward sacrifices; ‘Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?’ But he does ‘eat’ the better sacrifices that loving hearts or obedient wills lay on His altar. He seeks for these, and delights when they are offered to Him. ‘He hungered, and seeing a fig tree by the wayside, He came to it.’ He still hungers for the fruit that we can yield to Him, and if we will, He will enter in and sup with us, not disdaining to sit at the poor table which we can spread for Him, nor to partake of the humble fare which we can lay upon it, but mending the banquet by what He brings for our nourishment, and hallowing the hour by His presence.
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain On v17 Concerning the Care of the Levites, The Eating of…
Concerning the Care of the Levites, The Eating of Sacrificial Meat, and Idolatry
v. 17. Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy free-will offerings, or heave-offering of thine hand, whatever was taken from the possession of the Israelites as a gift to Jehovah; all these could not be consumed in the worshiper’s house or in his home town;
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v. 18. but thou must eat them before the Lord, thy God, in the place which the Lord, thy God, shall choose, the central Sanctuary, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord, thy God, in all that thou puttest thine hands unto, in any offering that might be made.
v. 19. Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth, literally, "all thy days upon thy land," Deu 14:27; Neh 13:10.
v. 20. When the Lord, thy God, shall enlarge thy border, as He hath promised thee, Exo 34:24. and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh, literally, "because the desire of thy soul is set upon eating flesh," indicating a very great, an overwhelming longing, thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, or, wherever they would choose.
v. 21. If the place which the Lord, thy God, hath chosen to put His name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock which the Lord hath given thee, as I have commanded thee; and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
v. 22. Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, namely, not in the form of sacrifices, so thou shalt eat them; the (Levitically) unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
v. 23. Only be sure that thou eat not the blood, they were to be strong enough to resist the temptation to use blood as food; for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh, Lev 17:11-14.
v. 24. Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
v. 25. Thou shalt not eat it, that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord, Exo 15:26.
v. 26. Only thy holy things which thou hast, those consecrated to the Lord, and thy vows, thou shalt take and go unto the place which the Lord shall choose;
v. 27. and thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the Lord, thy God; and the blood of the sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the Lord, thy God, as the Law provided, Lev 1:5, and thou shalt eat the flesh, Leviticus 7.
v. 28. Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee forever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord, thy God.
v. 29. When the Lord, thy God, shall cut off, eradicate, the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, by taking over their country, and dwellest in their land,
v. 30. take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, fall into the same snare of idolatry which caused their downfall, after that they be destroyed from before thee, for that judgment of the Lord should deter them from a similar foolhardy course; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? Even so will I do likewise. They should not even inquire about the form of worship used by the heathen, lest they be tempted to try it for themselves.
v. 31. Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord, thy God, not try to serve Him with a form of worship modeled after that of the heathen nations; for every abomination to the Lord which he hateth have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods, as the Moabites did in their service of Molech. It is a dangerous matter to Christianize heathen customs, for the superstition will cling to the rites after the Christian veneer is forgotten, as in many Christmas customs.
v. 32. What thing soever I command you, observe to do it; thou shalt not add thereto nor diminish from it, Jos 1:7. The Revelation of Scripture is sufficient for all purposes and teaches the way of salvation in a perfect manner. All books of modern antichristian sects which purport to be keys to the Bible are inventions of the Evil One.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv17–18 General Information:
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Moses describes to the people all the special offerings and sacrifices that are to be made at the tabernacle.
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within your gates
Here "gates" represents the whole city. AT: "inside your city" or "at your homes" (See: Synecdoche)
nor that of the offering you present with your hand
Here "hand" represents the whole person. AT: "nor that of any offering which you bring to Yahweh" (See: Synecdoche)
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12:18 The place he will choose was the central sanctuary—first the Tabernacle and then the Temple.
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