You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.
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You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.
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And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
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And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 16:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 35:13 They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.
- Exodus 12:8-9 They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
- Deuteronomy 16:2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
- Deuteronomy 16:6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.
- 2 Kings 23:23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, this Passover was kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
- Psalms 22:14-15 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
- John 2:13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- John 2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
- John 11:55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thou shalt roast; so that word is used also…
Thou shalt roast; so that word is used also 2Ch 35:13.
In the morning; either,
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1. The morning after the seventh day, as appears, partly, by the following verse, which is added to explain and limit this ambiguous word; partly, by the express command of God that the people should come to Jerusalem to keep this feast, which by God’s appointment lasted for seven days; partly, from the examples of the people staying there the whole time of the feast, 2Ch 30:21; 35:17; and partly, from the nature and business of this feast, wherein there being so many extraordinary sacrifices to be offered, and feasts made by the people upon the sacrifices, and two days of solemn assemblies, it is not probable that they would absent themselves from these solemn services, for the performance whereof they came purposely to Jerusalem. Or,
2. The morning after the first day, and so they were permitted to go then, and possibly some that lived near Jerusalem might go and return again to the last day of the solemn assembly. But the former seems more probable.
Thy tents, i.e. thy dwellings, which he calls tents, as respecting their present state, and withal to put them in mind afterwards when they were settled in better habitations, that there was a time when they dwelt in tents.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt roast and eat it in the…
And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose,.... The word for "roast" signifies to "boil", and is justly so used, and so Onkelos here renders it, and the Septuagint version both roast and boil; but it is certain that the passover lamb was not to be boiled, it is expressly forbidden, Exo 12:8 wherefore some think the Chagigah is here meant, and the other offerings that were offered at this feast; and so in the times of Josiah they roasted the passover with fire, according to the ordinance of God; but the other holy offerings sod or boiled they in pots, cauldrons and pans, and divided them speedily among the people, Ch2 35:13, but the passover lamb seems plainly to be meant here by the connection of this verse with the preceding verses; wherefore Jarchi observes, that this is to be understood of roasting with fire, though expressed by this word:
and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents; not in the morning of the fifteenth, after the passover had been killed and eaten on the fourteenth, but in the morning, after the feast of unleavened bread, which lasted seven days, was over; though some think that they might if they would depart home after the passover had been observed, and were not obliged to stay and keep the feast of unleavened bread at Jerusalem, but march to their own cities; and so Aben Ezra observes, that some say a man may go on a feast day to his house and country, but, says he, we do not agree to it; and it appears from the observation of other feasts, which lasted as long as these, that the people did not depart to their tents till the whole was over; see Kg1 8:66 and with this agrees the Targum of Jonathan,"and thou shall turn in the morning of the going out of the feast, and go to thy cities.''Jarchi indeed interprets it afterwards of the second day.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain In the morning - The morning after the seventh…
In the morning - The morning after the seventh day. Thy tents - That is, thy dwellings, which he calls tents, as respecting their present state, and to put them in mind afterwards when they were settled in better habitations, that there was a time when they dwelt in tents.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 16:7. Thou shalt turn in the morning —…
Deu 16:7. Thou shalt turn in the morning — The words are only a permission, not an absolute command. After the solemnity was over, they might return to their several places of abode. Some think they might return, if they pleased, the very morning after the paschal lamb was killed and eaten, the priests and Levites being sufficient to carry on the rest of the week’s work. But this is evidently a mistake; for the first day of the seven was so far from being the day of their dispersion, that it was expressly appointed for a holy convocation. Nor was it their practice to disperse on that day, but to keep together the whole week, 2Ch 35:17. The meaning, therefore, is, as the paraphrase of Jonathan expounds it, In the morning, after the end of the feasts, thou shalt go to thy tents; that is, thy dwellings, which Moses calls here tents, referring to their present state, and to put them in mind afterward, when they were settled in better habitations, that there was a time when they dwelt in tents.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Dress, (coques.) Hebrew bashal means frequently, to boil, and…
Dress, (coques.) Hebrew bashal means frequently, to boil, and sometimes to roast, as it must here, if it refer to the paschal lamb; the other victims might however be boiled, and the Septuagint use both expressions, "Thou shalt boil and roast." See 2 Paralipomenon xxxv. 13. It seems that Moses speaks only of the lamb, the method of preparing which he had abundantly explained before. (Calmet) --- Hebrew has not it, and of course the passage may be understood of all the victims offered on this solemnity. On the morning after it was concluded, people might all depart to their respective homes. The Rabbins observe, that the could not do this on the morning of the 15th Nisan, as it was a solemn festival, on which long journeys were prohibited, and they ought to wait till the end of the seventh day, to make their offering. Under Ezechias and Josias the people appear to have continued together during the whole octave, 2 Paralipomenon xxx., and xxxv. 17. (Haydock) --- Others are of opinion that the people might retire home after the 15th, (Tostat) or in the morning after they had eaten the paschal lamb. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain thou shalt roast and eat it--(See on Exo 12:8;…
thou shalt roast and eat it--(See on Exo 12:8; compare Ch2 35:13).
thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents--The sense of this passage, on the first glance of the words, seems to point to the morning after the first day--the passover eve. Perhaps, however, the divinely appointed duration of this feast, the solemn character and important object, the journey of the people from the distant parts of the land to be present, and the recorded examples of their continuing all the time (Ch2 30:21 Ch2 35:17), (though these may be considered extraordinary, and therefore exceptional occasions), may warrant the conclusion that the leave given to the people to return home was to be on the morning after the completion of the seven days.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7. Thou shalt roast — The Hebrew word בשׁל…
7. Thou shalt roast — The Hebrew word בשׁל (bashal) may mean to boil, but it is also used in a general sense of preparing food for use by cooking.
Go unto thy tents — Or, dwellings. The term tents may have been used to remind them of their long dwelling in tents through the years of their wandering.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. And thou shalt seethe] The Heb. bashal may…
7. And thou shalt seethe] The Heb. bashal may be used in the general sense of cooking, but it usually means to boil (Deu_14:21; 1Sa_2:13; 1Sa_2:15). The R.V. roast is due to the effort to harmonise this law with that of P, Exo_12:9, which directs that the sacrifice shall be roast with fire; but P expressly adds that it shall not be boiled in water, and uses for this the same vb bashal as D does. Clearly D and P enjoin different methods of preparing the paschal lamb. Boiling appears to have been the earlier preparation of the part of victims eaten by the worshippers (Jdg_6:19 ff.; 1Sa_2:13 f.) and roasting was at first regarded as an innovation (1Sa_2:15). See however Driver’s note.
thou shalt turn] See on Deu_3:1.
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and go unto thy tents] An interesting survival from the nomadic period of Israel’s history; cp. (also for the time after the settlement in towns) Jdg_7:8; Jdg_19:9 (EVV. home); 1Sa_13:2; 2Sa_19:8; 2Sa_20:22; 1Ki_12:16. The people then are to return to their homes on the morning after the Passover feast.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thou shalt roast. The verb here primarily signifies to…
Thou shalt roast. The verb here primarily signifies to be matured by heat for eating; hence to be ripened as by the sun"s heat (Gen_40:10; Joe_3:13; Heb_4:13) and to be cooked, whether by boiling, seething, or roasting. Here it is properly rendered by roast, as it was thus only that the Paschal lamb could be cooked. And go unto thy tents; return to thy place of abode; not necessarily to thy proper home (which might be far distant), but to the place where for the time thou hast thy lodging. The phrase, "thy tents," which originally came into use while as yet Israel had no settled abodes in Canaan, came afterwards to be used as a general designation of a man"s home or usual place of abode (cf. 1Sa_13:2; 2Sa_20:1; 1Ki_8:66, etc.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 You must roast it
You must roast it
"You must cook it"
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six days
"6 days" (See: Numbers)
seventh day
"seventh" is the ordinal number for seven. (See: Ordinal Numbers)
solemn assembly
"special gathering"
translationWords
tent
day
unleavened bread
assembly
works
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