Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... At the same time, as before, in a continued discourse, the subject being of the same kind, relating to sacrifices:
saying, as follows.
Barnes' Notes
A stranger’s hand - The word here rendered “stranger”, is not the same as that in Lev 22:10, Lev 22:18 : it means literally, “the son of the unknown”, and probably refers to one dwelling in another…
Adam Clarke
Their corruption is in them - Viz., they are bruised, crushed, broken, etc.
Here are four laws concerning sacrifices: -
I. Whatever was offered in sacrifice to God should be without blemish, otherwise it should not be accepted. This had often been mentioned in the particular…
Cambridge Bible
The case apparently is that of a foreigner who desires to offer sacrifice, and is forbidden to present an animal with a blemish. So Dillm. It is much less probable that the prohibition is directed…
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