- Bible
- Deuteronomy
- Chapter 12
- Verse 24
Deuteronomy 12:24
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
My Notes
Commentary
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Thou shalt not eat it,.... Neither with the flesh, nor separately:
thou shall pour it upon the earth as water; as the blood of sacrifices was poured upon the altar, the blood of common flesh was to…
There is not any one particular precept (as I remember) in all the law of Moses so largely pressed and inculcated as this, by which they are all tied to bring their sacrifices to that one altar which…
Practical Corollary to the Law of the One Altar
Originally among the Semites as among some other races all slaughter of domestic animals was sacramental 1 [132] : cp. the Heb. and Arab. word -for…