Deuteronomy 14

Deuteronomy 14:1

CHAPTER 14

Heathenish rites of mourning prohibited, ,2; and the eating of any abominable thing, . All unclean beasts, , fish, ,10, and birds, prohibited, . True tithing commanded, ; and where it was to be eaten, . A command about the third year’ s tithing, ; and who should eat it, .

Of the Lord your God; whom therefore you must not disparage by unworthy or unbecoming practices, such as here follow, and whom you must not disobey. Ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes, which were the practices of idolaters, both in the worship of their idols, as ; or in their funerals, as here, and ; or upon occasion of public calamities, as 47:5. See Poole “”, See Poole “”. See Poole “”. For the dead; through excessive sorrow for your dead friends, as if you had no hope of their happiness after death, .

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i.e. Unclean and forbidden by me, which therefore should be abominable to you.

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Of which see Leviticus 11. The small differences between some of their names here and there are not proper for this work. The learned reader may find them cleared in my Latin Synopsis. For others, they may well enough want the knowledge of them, both because these are the smaller matters of the law, and because this distinction of clean and unclean beasts is now out of date.

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Unto the stranger; not to the proselyte, for such were obliged by this law, , but to such as were strangers in religion as well as in nation.

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This is to be understood of the second tithes, which seem to be the same with the tithes of the third year, mentioned here below, 26:12, on which see above, on . And to confirm this opinion, (though I would not lay too great a stress upon criticisms,) yet I cannot but observe that this tithing is spoken of only as the people’ s act here, and , and the Levites are not at all mentioned in either place as receivers or takers of them, but only as partakers of them together with the owners, and therefore they are so severely charged here upon their consciences,

thou shalt truly tithe all thine increase, because the execution of this was left wholly to themselves, whereas the first tithes were received by the Levites, who therefore are said to take or receive those tithes, .

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See Poole on “”, See Poole on “”.

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Bind up the money in thine hand, i.e. in a bag to be taken into thy hand and carried with thee.

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Thou shalt not forsake him; thou shalt give him a share in such tithes, or in the product of them.

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At the end of three years, i.e. in the third year, as it is expressed, . So, in the end of three years, or of seven years, is the same with in the third or seventh year, as appears by comparing ,17 ,10 17:6.

All the tithe of thine increase. I join with those expositors who make this the same tithe with the former, , as being called by the same title without any distinction between them, save only as to the place of eating them. See Poole “”, and See Poole “”.

The same year: this is added to show that he speaks of the third year, and not of the fourth year, as some might conjecture from the phrase, at the end of three years.