Deuteronomy 14:5

_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 Western Asia, but an antelope (Oryx leucoryx) called by the Arabs, Jazmar. It is of a white colour, black at the extremities, and a bright red on the thighs. It was used at Solomon's table (1 Kings 4:23). Niebuhr describes it as frequenting the sandy deserts of Eastern Arabia, where it finds its favourite food from the leaves of the dwarfish acacias; and most probably it abounde

1-21 Moses tells the people of Israel how God had given them three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things, with which God has in Christ blessed us. Here is election; "The Lord hath chosen thee." He did not choose them because they were by their own acts a peculiar people to him above other nations, but he chose them that they might be so by his grace; and thus were believers chosen, Ephesians 1:4. Here is adoption; "Ye are the children of the Lord your God;" not because God needed children, but because they were orphans, and needed a father. Every spiritual Israelite is indeed a child of God, a partaker of his nature and favour. Here is sanctification; "Thou art a holy people." God's people are required to be holy, and if they are holy, they are indebted to the grace God which makes them so. Those whom God chooses...

Verse Deuteronomy 14:5. _THE HART_] איל _aiyal_, the deer, according to Dr. Shaw: Deuteronomy 12:15. _THE ROEBUCK_] צבי _tsebi_, generally supposed to be the _antelope_, belonging to the fifth order _Pecora_, genus MAMMALIA, and species 38. It has round twisted spiral horns, hairy tufts on the knees, browses on tender shoots, lives in hilly countries, is fond of climbing rocks, and is remarkable for its beautiful black eyes. The flesh is good and well flavoured. _THE FALLOW DEER_] יחמור _yachmur_, from חמר _chamar_, to be _troubled, disturbed, disordered_: this is supposed to mean, not the _fallow deer_, but the _bubalus_ or _buffalo_, which is represented by Dr. Shaw, and oth

Compare Leviticus 11. The variations here, whether omissions or additions, are probably to be explained by the time and circumstances of the speaker. Deuteronomy 14:5 The “pygarg” is a species of gazelle, and the “wild ox” and “chamois” are swift types of antelope. Deuteronomy 14:21 The prohibition is repeated from Leviticus 22:8. The directions as to the disposal of the carcass are unique to Deuteronomy, and their motive is clear. To have forbidden the people either themselves to eat that which had died, or to allow

EXPOSITION HEATHEN CUSTOMS OF MOURNING TO BE AVOIDED. NO ABOMINABLE THING TO BE EATEN. MEATS CLEAN AND UNCLEAN. TITHES. DEUTERONOMY 14:1 Israel, as the people of God, chosen by him to be his children by adoption, must not only abstain from idolatry, but also avoid all heathenish usages and practices, such as those connected with mourning for the dead, and those pertaining to the use of food. DEUTERONOMY 14:1 Ye a

THE HART, THE ROEBUCK, AND THE FALLOW DEER,.... All of the deer kind, and very agreeable food; harts were very common in the land of Canaan and parts adjacent; Aelianus says u harts are bred in the great mountains in Syria, Amanus, Lebanon, and Carmel: the roebuck, or "dorcas", from whence a good woman had her name, Acts 9:36 is spoken of by Martial w as very delicious food, and so are fallow deer; the word "jachmur", here used, having the signification of redness in it, may be used for that sort which are called red deer: it is observed that in the Arabic language it is used for an animal with two horns, living in the woods, not unlike an hart, but swifter than that; and it is asked, is it not the "aloe" or "elch" x? AND THE WILD GOAT, AND THE PYGARG, AND THE WILD OX, AND THE CHAMOIS; the wild goat is reckoned by Pliny y among the half wild creatures in Africa; according to the

10. THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THEIR SEPARATION CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The declaration of relationship: A holy people (Deuteronomy 14:1)_ 2. Their food as a separated people (Deuteronomy 14:3) 3. Concerning tithes (Deuteronomy 14:22) Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Because God had chosen them to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the other nations, they were to be an holy people. To them belongeth still “the adoption” (Romans 9:4). God called Israel His firstborn son and that nation holds that place, in the divine purpose, among the nations. Sonship, in the New Testamen

Heathen customs to be avoided. Deuteronomy 14:1_ f._ Heathen mourning rites. Deuteronomy 14:1. cut yourselves: Leviticus 19:28 *, _cf_. Leviticus 21:5. BALDNESS: the custom in mourning of shaving the hair between the eyes (_i.e._ on the top of the forehead). These are merely extreme forms of expressing grief; but most recent scholars regard them as survivals of acts of sacrifice, the blood and the hair being offered up to heathen deities or to dead but deified ancestors (p. 110). See Jeremiah 16:6

ROEBUCK. gazelle (Revised Version) FALLOW DEER. roebuck. PYGARG. mountain goat. WILD OX. antelope (Revised Version) CHAMOIS. mountain sheep (Revised Version)...

Of Clean and Unclean Beasts, Fishes and Birds Paralleled with elaborations in H, Leviticus 11:2-23 (see introductory note above p. 183; and cp. the comparative table in Driver's _Deut._157 ff.; the chief similarities and differences are noted in the notes below), and very summarily also in Leviticus 20:25, H: _ye shall separate between clean beast and unclean, and between unclean fowl and clean and shall not render your souls detestable_(cp. Deuteronomy 7:26; Deuteronomy 11:31; Deuteronomy 12:11) by be