When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border.... — This and the following verses (20-25) are perfectly intelligible as an expansion of Deuteronomy 12:15, and a modification of the strict rule introduced in Leviticus 18:2, &c. The distance from the central place of worship to the borders of the land would be manifestly too great for all feasting to be limited to that one spot.

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