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Deuteronomy 12:6

Deuteronomy 12:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

To the appointed place all their sacrificial gifts and offerings were to be brought, and there they were to keep their holy feasts. The gifts are classified in groups.

1. Burnt offerings and sacrifices, the two principal kinds of altar offerings, with which meal offerings and drink offerings were united (, etc.).

2. Tithes and heave offerings (cf. Le 27:30-33; ). The heave offerings are described as of your hand, either because offered by the offerer's own hand, or to indicate such gifts as were made off-hand (so to speak), voluntary offerings made in addition to the legal offerings from an immediate impulse of grateful emotion.

3. Vows and freewill offerings, sacrifices which were offered in consequence of vows or of spontaneous impulse (cf. Le ; ; :38; ; ).

4. Firstlings of their herds and of their flocks (cf. , , etc.; , etc.).

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