Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God, year by year,.... Which, if understood of male firstlings, as in connection with the preceding verse, only priests might eat of them, being devoted to the…
Compare Exo 13:11 ff. The directions of the preceding legislation (see Num 18:15 ff) are here assumed, with the injunction added, that the animals thus set apart to God Deu 15:19 were not to be used…
Here is, 1. A repetition of the law concerning the firstlings of their cattle, that, if they were males, they were to be sanctified to the Lord (Deu 15:19), in remembrance of, and in thankfulness for,…
Cambridge Bible
thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God See on Deu 12:7; Deu 12:12; Deu 12:18.
year by year At one of the feasts, probably the Passover, hence the place of this law of firstlings; in D immediately…
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