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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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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 15:19–23
18th Century
Theologian
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…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 15:20
19th Century
Bishop
You shall eat it before the Lord your God year by year. —This connects the eating of the firstlings with the “second” tit…
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 15:20
17th Century
Pastor
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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Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 15:19–23
17th Century
Minister
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…