Deuteronomy 16:5

_THOU MAYEST NOT SACRIFICE THE PASSOVER WITHIN ANY OF THY GATES, WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE:_ Thou mayest not sacrifice ... within any of thy gates, х_ ZEBACH_ (H2077), a sacrifice]. This word, which is applied (Jeremiah 7:22) to a great and solemn sacrifice, is used by Moses himself for the Passover. The instructions here given respecting the celebration of the Passover were to the effect that the Israelites were, after their settlement in the promised land, no longer to be at liberty to kill it at home, but in the place which God should choose to put His name there. The precise time when this change was introduced into the practice of the Israelites is not mentioned; but it was, in all probability, not until the sanctuary was erected in an appointed place, because the Passover was to be offered nowhere but i

1-17 The laws for the three yearly feasts are here repeated; that of the Passover, that of the Pentecost, that of Tabernacles; and the general law concerning the people's attendance. Never should a believer forget his low estate of guilt and misery, his deliverance, and the price it cost the Redeemer; that gratitude and joy in the Lord may be mingled with sorrow for sin, and patience under the tribulations in his way to the kingdom of heaven. They must rejoice in their receivings from God, and in their returns of service and sacrifice to him; our duty must be our delight, as well as our enjoyment. If those who were under the law must rejoice before God, much more we that are under the grace of the gospel; which makes it our duty to rejoice evermore, to rejoice in the Lord always. When we rejoice in God ourselves, we should do what we can to assist others also to rejoice in him, by comfo...

The cardinal point on which the whole of the prescriptions in this chapter turn, is evidently the same as has been so often insisted on in the previous chapters, namely, the concentration of the religious services of the people round one common sanctuary. The prohibition against observing the great Feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and tabernacle, the three annual epochs in the sacred year of the Jew, at home and in private, is reiterated in a variety of words no less than six times in the first sixteen verses of this chapter Deuteronomy 16:2, Deuteronomy 16:6, Deuteronomy 16:11, Deuteron

EXPOSITION CELEBRATION OF THE PASSOVER FESTIVAL, THE FEAST OF PENTECOST AND OF TABERNACLES. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND PREVENTION OF IDOLATRY. DEUTERONOMY 16:1 (Comp. Exodus 23:14-2; Exodus 34:18,...

THOU MAYEST NOT SACRIFICE THE PASSOVER WITHIN ANY OF THY GATES,.... Or cities, as the Targum of Jonathan, so called because they usually had gates to them, in which public affairs were transacted; but in none of these, only in the city of Jerusalem, the place the Lord chose, might they kill the passover and eat it, and other passover offerings: WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE; in the land of Canaan, and which land was given them of God....

12. THE FIRSTLINGS AND THE THREE FEASTS Chapter S 15:19-16:17 _ 1. Concerning the firstlings (Deuteronomy 15:19)_ 2. Passover (Deuteronomy 16:1) 3. Feast of weeks (Deuteronomy 16:9) 4. Feast of tabernacles (Deuteronomy 16:13) What is said in the closing verses of chapter 15 is supplementary to the law given concerning the first-born in Exodus 13:2; Exodus 13:12 and...

DEUTERONOMY 16. THE DEUTERONOMIC LAWS OF THE THREE ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE FEASTS. These are adaptations of the older laws in Exodus 23:18 *, Exodus 34:18; Exodus 34:22 f. (general regulations); Deuteronomy 12:21 (Passover); Deuteronomy 13:3 (Unleavened Bread), all J or E (see also Leviticus 23* (H) and Numbers 28 f., Numbers 9:1; Exodus 12:1 *,...

GATES. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, put for the cities themselves. Note the Introversion of the lines of this member, verses: Deuteronomy 16:5; Deuteronomy 16:6....

The Passover (with Maṣṣôth) To be kept in Abib for in that month Israel was brought out of Egypt by the sacrifice of a victim from herd or flock at the One Altar (Deuteronomy 16:1 f.). For seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten Israel's food in the haste of quitting Egypt, and no leaven shall be found in their borders, nor any of the Passover flesh after the first evening (Deuteronomy 16:3 f.). The Passover shall be boiled and eaten, the people returning next morning to their tents (Deuteronomy 16:5-7); for six days Israel shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh hold a convocation and do no work (Deute

LESSON THIRTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:1-17; DEUTERONOMY 21:22; DEUTERONOMY 17:1 d. HOLY FESTIVALS (Deuteronomy 16:1-17; Deuteronomy 21:22; Deuteronomy 17:1) (These three yearly feasts are also discussed in Exodus 23:14-17; Exodus 34:23