_YE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE LORD YOUR GOD: YE SHALL NOT CUT YOURSELVES, NOR MAKE ANY BALDNESS BETWEEN YOUR EYES FOR THE DEAD._ Ye are the children of the Lord your God - children or sons. Israel, in a national capacity, were called so (Deuteronomy 32:19; Exodus 4:22; Hosea 11:1; Matthew 2:15), alth... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THOU ART AN HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD, AND THE LORD HATH CHOSEN THEE TO BE A PECULIAR PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF, ABOVE ALL THE NATIONS THAT ARE UPON THE EARTH._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT NOT EAT ANY ABOMINABLE THING._ Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing - i:e., anything forbidden as unclean, (see the notes at Leviticus 11:1.) CONCERNING BEASTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE ARE THE BEASTS WHICH YE SHALL EAT: THE OX, THE SHEEP, AND THE GOAT,_ These are the beasts which ye shall eat. The specification of mammalia, whose flesh would be excellent, is full and particular here, because the Israelites were about to be settled in the land of promise, on the mountain pa... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE HART, AND THE ROEBUCK, AND THE FALLOW DEER, AND THE WILD GOAT, AND THE PYGARG, AND THE WILD OX, AND THE CHAMOIS._ The hart - (see the note at Deuteronomy 12:15.) FALLOW DEER, х_ WªYACHMUWR_ (H3180), from _ CHAAMAR_ (H2560), to be red] - does not represent the fallow deer, which is unknown in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND EVERY BEAST THAT PARTETH THE HOOF, AND CLEAVETH THE CLEFT INTO TWO CLAWS, AND CHEWETH THE CUD AMONG THE BEASTS, THAT YE SHALL EAT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_OF ALL CLEAN BIRDS YE SHALL EAT._ Of all clean birds ye shall eat - (see the note at Leviticus 11:21.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THESE ARE THEY OF WHICH YE SHALL NOT EAT: THE EAGLE, AND THE OSSIFRAGE, AND THE OSPRAY,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE GLEDE, AND THE KITE, AND THE VULTURE AFTER HIS KIND,_ Glede, х_ WªHAARAA'AAH_ (H7201)] - thought to be the same kind as that rendered vulture, Leviticus 11:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND EVERY RAVEN AFTER HIS KIND,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE OWL, AND THE NIGHT HAWK, AND THE CUCKOW, AND THE HAWK AFTER HIS KIND,_ The owl, х_ BAT_ (H1323) _ HAYA`ªNAAH_ (H3284)] - daughter of the female ostrich; i:e., the female ostrich herself (Gesenius). THE CUCKOW, х_ HASHAACHAP_ (H7828)] - more probably the sea gull.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LITTLE OWL, AND THE GREAT OWL, AND THE SWAN,_ The swan - rather the goose (Michaelis) or the kite (Gesenius).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PELICAN, AND THE GIER EAGLE, AND THE CORMORANT,_ Gier eagle, х_ HAARAACHAAMAAH_ (H7360)] - is manifestly identical with Rachamah, the name which the Arabs give to the common vulture of Western Asia and Egypt (Neophron perenopterus). CORMORANT - rather the Plungeon, a sea fowl.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE STORK, AND THE HERON AFTER HER KIND, AND THE LAPWING, AND THE BAT._ The lapwing - the upupu or hoopoe, a beautiful bird, but of the most unclean habits.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND EVERY CREEPING THING THAT FLIETH IS UNCLEAN UNTO YOU: THEY SHALL NOT BE EATEN._ Every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you. 'The edible kinds of locusts are passed over, because it was not the intention of Moses to repeat every particular of the earlier laws in these addresses. But w... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT OF ALL CLEAN FOWLS YE MAY EAT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE SHALL NOT EAT OF ANY THING THAT DIETH OF ITSELF: THOU SHALT GIVE IT UNTO THE STRANGER THAT IS IN THY GATES, THAT HE MAY EAT IT; OR THOU MAYEST SELL IT UNTO AN ALIEN: FOR THOU ART AN HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD. THOU SHALT NOT SEETHE A KID IN HIS MOTHER'S MILK._ Ye shall not eat of any thi... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT TRULY TITHE ALL THE INCREASE OF THY SEED, THAT THE FIELD BRINGETH FORTH YEAR BY YEAR._ Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed. The dedication of a tenth part of the year's produce in everything was then a religious duty (see the notes at Deuteronomy 12:17; Deuteronomy 26:12... [ Continue Reading ]
_AT THE END OF THREE YEARS THOU SHALT BRING FORTH ALL THE TITHE OF THINE INCREASE THE SAME YEAR, AND SHALT LAY IT UP WITHIN THY GATES:_ At the end of three years ... the Levite ... shall come ... The Levites having no inheritance like the other tribes, the Israelites were not to forget them, but ho... [ Continue Reading ]