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You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
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A Sacred Family Meal
This verse specifies that the consecrated firstborn animal was to be eaten in a sacred meal. Commentators explain this was not a private meal at home but a joyful, communal feast for the family at the central sanctuary, turning an agricultural law into an act of worship.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare to Exodus 13:11 and following. The directions of the preceding legislation (see Numbers 18:15 and following) are here assumed, with the inj…
19th Century
Anglican
You shall eat it before the Lord your God year by year. —This connects the eating of the firstlings with the “second” tit…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You shall eat it before the Lord your God, year by year Which, if understood of male firstlings, as in connection wi…
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Here is instruction on what to do with the firstlings. We are not now limited as the Israelites were; we make no difference between a first calf, o…
