I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
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Gill's Exposition
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning,.... When in grief and sorrow on account of any afflictive circumstance, for these were to be eaten with joy, Deu 16:11; and especially of the loss of relations…
Barnes' Notes
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning - When the Israelite would be unclean (compare the marginal references). Nor given ought thereof for the dead - The reference is not so much to the…
Concerning the disposal of their tithe the third year we had the law before, Deu 14:28, Deu 14:29. The second tithe, which in the other two years was to be spent in extraordinaries at the feasts, was…
Cambridge Bible
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning Heb. -awen, sorrow; so in Hos 9:4, the bread of sorrowsis unclean. If the mourner, unclean by contact with the dead, ate part of the tithe, he defiled it…
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