Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood (m) [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
(m) Because the life of beasts is in their blood.
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood (m) [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
(m) Because the life of beasts is in their blood.
Verse Deuteronomy 12:23. _FOR THE BLOOD_ IS _THE LIFE_] And the _life_ being offered as an _atonement_, consequently the blood should not be eaten. Leviticus 17:11, where the subject of the _vitality_...
8. THE PLACE OF WORSHIP CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The overthrow of false worship (Deuteronomy 12:1)_ 2. The true place of worship (Deuteronomy 12:5) 3. Concerning eating and the blood (D
THE LAW OF ONE SANCTUARY. The local sanctuaries (originally Canaanite) with everything belonging to them, are to be destroyed, and all sacrifices are to be offered at the place which Yahweh should cho...
THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE. Hebrew "the blood it [is] the soul". Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. Compare Leviticus 17:11; Leviticus 17:14, and Deuteronomy 12:16 above. THE LIFE. the soul. Hebrew. nephes
I. First Division of the Laws: on Worship and Religious Institutions Deuteronomy 12:2 to Deuteronomy 16:17; Deuteronomy 16:21 to...
Practical Corollary to the Law of the One Altar Originally among the Semites as among some other races all slaughter of domestic animals was sacramental 1 [132] : cp. the Heb. and Arab. word -for alt...
DISCOURSE: 205 THE PROHIBITION OF EATING BLOOD Deuteronomy 12:23. Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh: thou shalt not e...
_VER._ 23. _EAT NOT THE BLOOD_— This is, says Mr. Locke, in opposition to the Zabii: for though, continues he, as Dr. Cudworth has remarked, _blood_ was very impure and unclean in the sight of the Zab...
LESSON NINE DEUTERONOMY 12:1-28 B. THE LAW (the Statutes and Ordinances) (Deuteronomy 12:1 to Deuteronomy 26:19) 1. ONE SANCTUARY ...
_ONLY BE SURE THAT THOU EAT NOT THE BLOOD: FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE; AND THOU MAYEST NOT EAT THE LIFE WITH THE FLESH._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
12:23 life, (a-15) Or 'soul.' see Leviticus 17:11 ....
THE ABOLITION OF IDOLATROUS PLACES. THE CENTRALISATION OF WORSHIP. ABSTINENCE FROM BLOOD The larger section of the Second Discourse begins here and extends to the end of Deuteronomy 26. It consists of...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 12 V1 ‘You must be careful to *keep these rules and laws for as long as you live in the country...
רַ֣ק חֲזַ֗ק לְ בִלְתִּי֙ אֲכֹ֣ל הַ דָּ֔ם
LAWS OF SACRIFICE Deuteronomy 12:1. IT is a characteristic of all the earlier codes of law-the Book of the Covenant, the Deuteronomic Code, and the Law of Holiness-that at the head of the series of l...
Having thus repeated the great words of the Law and called the people to obedience, Moses now proceeded to deal with the statutes and judgments, and, first, the statutes. In dealing with these he com...
_Soul. See Genesis ix. 4. Blood maintains the life of animals, and it would seem cruel to begin to eat them before they were perfectly dead. But the obligation of this positive law has long ago ceased...
The same observation meets us here as before, only with this addition, that as from its importance it is again repeated, our attention and regard to it should be but the more increased. If from the re...
In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
23._Only be _(21) _sure that thou eat not_. It is not without cause that he earnestly exhorts them to inflexible firmness, because it was both a matter trifling in appearance, and its observation trou...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 12 AND 13. The second division begins with chapter 12, and contains the statutes and ordinances they were bound to observe. It is not a repetition of the old...
ONLY BE SURE THAT THOU EAT NOT THE BLOOD,.... This is repeated again, that they might be careful to observe the law concerning that: FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE: which is the reason given for the prohi...
1 Monuments of Idolatrie are to be destroyed. 5 The place of Gods seruice is to be kept. 15.23 Blood is forbidden. 17.20.26 Holy things must bee eaten in the Holy place. 19 The Leuite is not to be f...
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood, they were to be strong enough to resist the temptation to use blood as food; FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE, AND THOU MAYEST NOT EAT THE LIFE WITH THE FLESH, Levit...
CONCERNING THE CARE OF THE LEVITES, THE EATING OF SACRIFICIAL MEAT, AND IDOLATRY...
ONE CENTER OF WORSHIP (vs.1-28) To prepare for proper worship in the land, Israel must utterly destroy those in which the nations before them served their idols. This was commonly done in high places...
BE SURE: _ Heb._ be strong...
5-32 The command to bring ALL the sacrifices to the door of the tabernacle, was now explained with reference to the promised land. As to moral service, then, as now, men might pray and worship every...
THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE; of which SEE POOLE ON "GENESIS 9:4". SEE POOLE ON "LEVITICUS 17:11". The animal life depends upon the blood....
We now enter upon a new section of our marvellous book. The discourses contained in the first eleven Chapter s having established the all-important principle of obedience, we now come to the practical...
Deuteronomy 12:23 sure H2388 (H8798) eat H398 (H8800) blood H1818 blood H1818 life H5315 eat H398 ...
AS LONG AS THE BLOOD IS NOT EATEN THEY MAY EAT OF THEIR HERDS AND THEIR FLOCKS WITHOUT GOING TO THE SANCTUARY IF THEY LIVE TOO FAR AWAY (DEUTERONOMY 12:20). Deuteronomy 12:20 ‘ When Yahweh your God s...
CONTENTS: Statements of conditions of blessing in the land. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We must not think that our religion is only for our years of servitude or our entertainment in the pla...
Deuteronomy 12:5. _The place which the Lord shall choose._ No place is here named; for the Lord was content, and most significantly, to dwell in the tent. He sojourned in the desert; and afterwards re...
CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses now begins an exposition of the principal laws which must govern the people in their ecclesiastical, civil, and domestic life in Canaan. The religious life of Israel is described...
EXPOSITION ANNOUNCEMENT OF PARTICULAR LAWS. CHAPTERS 12-26. Moses, having in his first address cast a glance at the events which had transpired between Sinai and the plains of Moab, and in his second...
In chapter twelve he gives the conditions whereby they should enjoy the blessings within the land. First of all they are to utterly destroy all of the places, where there the people that inhabited the...
Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:11; Leviticus 17:14; Leviticus 3:16;...