If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses you, then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose. You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
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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, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always. If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses you, then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose. You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. 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 you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
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If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses you,
then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose.
You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
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And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
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And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set His name there, when the LORD thy God shall bless thee;
then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose.
And thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy household.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:7 (v26) Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
- Deuteronomy 12:21 (v24) If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock,…
- Deuteronomy 12:5 (v24) 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 12:7 (v26) 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…
- Deuteronomy 12:20-21 (v26) When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat…
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- Deuteronomy 26:11 (v26) You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is…
- Psalms 106:14 (v26) but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
- Matthew 21:12 (v26) Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’…
- 1 Corinthians 6:12-13 (v26) “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power…
- Exodus 23:31 (v24) I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the…
- Deuteronomy 11:24 (v24) Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates,…
- Deuteronomy 12:12 (v26) You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who…
- Deuteronomy 12:15 (v26) 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…
- Ezra 7:15-17 (v26) and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in…
- Ezra 7:22 (v26) up to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred cors of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil,…
- Mark 11:15 (v26) They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and…
- John 2:14-16 (v26) He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. He made a whip of cords, and threw all out…
- 1 Corinthians 10:6 (v26) Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- Deuteronomy 12:18 (v26) 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…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv24–26 When he shall give thee ability.
When he shall give thee ability.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On v25 Bind up the money in thine hand, i.e. in…
Bind up the money in thine hand, i.e. in a bag to be taken into thy hand and carried with thee.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv24–26 And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou…
And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him,.... As not from giving him the first tithe, as Jarchi remarks, so he was not to forget him in this; he was not to leave him behind, but take him with him to partake of this entertainment:
for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee in the land: see Deu 12:12.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v25 In thine hand - That is, in a bag…
In thine hand - That is, in a bag to be taken into thy hand and carried with thee.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v26 Verse 26. Or for strong drink] What the sikera…
Verse 26. Or for strong drink] What the sikera or strong drink of the Hebrews was, See Clarke on Le 10:9. This one verse sufficiently shows that the Mosaic law made ample provision for the comfort and happiness of the people.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv24, 26 Deu 14:24-25. When the Lord thy God hath blessed…
Deu 14:24-25. When the Lord thy God hath blessed thee — Hath given thee so great an increase that the tenth thereof is more than thou canst carry to the sanctuary. Bind up the money in thy hand — That is, in a bag, to be taken in thy hand and carried with thee.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v26 Herds. Hebrew, "oxen." --- Sheep; under which name are…
Herds. Hebrew, "oxen." --- Sheep; under which name are comprised goats.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v24 24. If the way be too long for thee…
24. If the way be too long for thee — If they lived at so great a distance from the appointed place that it would be difficult to carry the prescribed tithes they were allowed to sell them and buy provision at the sanctuary.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v26 26. and thou shalt bestow the money] It was…
26. and thou shalt bestow the money] It was this law, which with other customs led to the rise of markets for cattle and other commodities in the Temple Courts with the consequent abuses, fostered by the priests for their own enrichment, which our Lord chastised. Cp. Jer_6:13; Jer_7:11; Jer_23:11.
for whatsoever thy soul desireth … asketh of thee] On the soul as seat of the appetite see Deu_12:20; on desireth, Deu_5:21. The emphatic liberality of this provision is striking. Though the tithe is a vegetable one, flesh may be substituted for it: cp. Deu_14:23 according to which it was to be eaten with the firstlings.
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or for wine, or for strong drink] The attempt is sometimes made to argue that the juice of the vine when praised or prescribed in the O.T. is never an intoxicating liquor. That is clearly contradicted here; strong drink is a true transl. of the Heb. shekar, ‘omne quod inebriare potest’ (Jerome), which because of its effects is condemned in Isa_5:11; Isa_5:22; Isa_28:7; Mic_2:11; 1Sa_1:15; Pro_20:1, and is forbidden to priests on duty, Lev_10:9; cp. Pro_31:4, prescribed to invalids. The adj. from it shikkor = drunkard. In Israel there was the same difference of opinion as to its use which prevails among ourselves.
and thou shalt rejoice] See on Deu_12:7.
thou and thine household] As in Deu_12:7; Deu_12:12; Deu_12:18 : the tithes or their equivalent are to be enjoyed, not as in P by the Temple Levites and Priests but by the offerers and their families including—
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On v26 (26) Thou shalt bestow that money.—The Jews were very…
(26) Thou shalt bestow that money.—The Jews were very particular in not permitting the second tithe to be expended upon anything not permitted here. The rules as to its disposal form a separate treatise in the Talmud, called Ma’aser Shênî, “second tithe.”
Or for strong drink.—From this it is clear that the use of strong drink is not sinful in itself. The same word appears in its Greek form (Heb., shêcar; Greek, sikêr) in Luk_1:15.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv24, 26 In the land of Canaan, as the people would…
In the land of Canaan, as the people would be dispersed over a wide tract, it might happen that the place which the Lord should choose was at such a distance from the usual residence of many that to observe this injunction would be to them very difficult, if not impossible. To meet this, therefore, it was enacted that the tithe might be commuted into money, and with this the things required for the sacrificial meals at the sanctuary might be purchased.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv24, 26 carry it
carry it
Here "it" refers to the tithe of crops and livestock.
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you will convert the offering into money
"you will sell your offering for money"
tie up the money in your hand, and go
"put the money in a bag and take it with you"
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bless
sacrifice
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v26 14:26 Both wine and other alcoholic drink were used…
14:26 Both wine and other alcoholic drink were used in worship ceremonies (Gen 14:18; 35:14; Exod 29:40-41; Matt 26:27) and in celebrations; they signified God’s blessing (Gen 27:25, 28; 49:11; 1 Chr 12:40; Ps 104:15; Song 4:10; 5:1; Isa 25:6; Matt 26:29).
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