Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou shalt furnish him liberally,.... Not only to supply his present wants, but for his future use, and to set him up in the world: "loading thou shall load him" (h), so some render the words; give…
Barnes' Notes
Thou shalt furnish him liberally - The verb in the Hebrew is remarkable. It means “thou shalt lay on his neck,” “adorn his neck with thy gifts.”
Here is, I. A repetition of the law that had been given concerning Hebrew servants who had sold themselves for servants, or were sold by their parents through extreme poverty, or were sold by the…
Cambridge Bible
thou shalt furnish him liberally Lit. make-him-a-necklace (with emphatic repetition of the vb.). In this metaphor is the idea of loadingor that of ornamenting(embellishing, equipping) the governing…
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