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Deuteronomy 12:24

Deuteronomy 12:24
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

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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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Deuteronomy 12:5-32

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Deuteronomy 12:20-28

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…

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