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申命记 26:14

我守喪的時候,沒有吃這聖物;我不潔的時候,沒有把它除去,也沒有把它送給死人;我聽從了耶和華我的 神的話,都照著你吩咐我的一切行了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Mourning;   Necromancy;   Tithes;   Thompson Chain Reference - Generosity;   Liberality;   Liberality-Parsimony;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dead, the;   Tithe;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Feasts;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Funeral;   Giving;   Tithes;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Legalism;   Tithe, Tithing;   Work;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Burial;   Mourning;   Pentateuch;   Prayer;   Tithes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ancestors;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ancestor-Worship;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Poverty;   Prayer;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Decease, in the Old Testament and Apocyphra;   Fatherless;   Hosea;   Resurrection;   Tithe;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abrogation of Laws;   Alexandri;   Ancestor Worship;   Commandments, the 613;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 守 丧 的 时 候 , 没 有 吃 这 圣 物 ; 不 洁 净 的 时 候 , 也 没 有 拿 出 来 , 又 没 有 为 死 人 送 去 。 我 听 从 了 耶 和 华 ─ 我   神 的 话 , 都 照 你 所 吩 咐 的 行 了 。

Contextual Overview

12 Bring a tenth of all your harvest the third year (the year to give a tenth of your harvest). Give it to the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows so that they may eat in your towns and be full. 13 Then say to the Lord your God, "I have taken out of my house the part of my harvest that belongs to God, and I have given it to the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows. I have done everything you commanded me; I have not broken your commands, and I have not forgotten any of them. 14 I have not eaten any of the holy part while I was in sorrow. I have not removed any of it while I was unclean, and I have not offered it for dead people. I have obeyed you, the Lord my God, and have done everything you commanded me. 15 So look down from heaven, your holy home. Bless your people Israel and bless the land you have given us, which you promised to our ancestors—a fertile land."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

eaten: Deuteronomy 16:11, Leviticus 7:20, Leviticus 21:1, Leviticus 21:11, Hosea 9:4, Malachi 2:13

the dead: Psalms 106:28, Ezekiel 24:17

Reciprocal: Leviticus 10:19 - should Deuteronomy 12:17 - the tithe Nehemiah 8:9 - mourn not Jeremiah 16:7 - tear themselves

Cross-References

Genesis 12:16
the king was kind to Abram because he thought Abram was her brother. He gave Abram sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
Genesis 13:2
Abram was very rich in cattle, silver, and gold.
Genesis 26:13
and he became rich. He gathered more wealth until he became a very rich man.
Genesis 26:14
He had so many slaves and flocks and herds that the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 37:11
Joseph's brothers were jealous of him, but his father thought about what all these things could mean.
1 Samuel 18:9
So Saul watched David closely from then on, because he was jealous.
Job 1:3
He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred teams of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys. He also had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.
Job 5:2
Anger kills the fool, and jealousy slays the stupid.
Job 42:12
The Lord blessed the last part of Job's life even more than the first part. Job had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand teams of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
Psalms 112:3
Their houses will be full of wealth and riches, and their goodness will continue forever.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have not eaten thereof in my mourning,.... When in grief and sorrow on account of any afflictive circumstance, for these were to be eaten with joy, Deuteronomy 16:11; and especially of the loss of relations by death, when holy things were not to be eaten by such persons; see Leviticus 10:19; and particularly tithes, though it is said n,

"What is doubtful of tithing (whether it has been tithed or no) might be eaten by a mourner;''

and a man was reckoned such an one until his dead was buried. So Maimonides o observes,

"a mourner may not eat holy things, as it is written, Deuteronomy 26:14; he is one whose relation is dead, when he is obliged to mourn; for he is called by the law a mourner as long as the dead lies upon the face of the earth (above ground), or as long as he is not yet buried he is called a mourner; and so likewise on the day of burial:''

neither have I taken away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean [use]; or common use, or any other use than it was designed for, and devoted to; or for any unclean person, who by the law might not eat thereof; or, as Jarchi interprets it, that he had not removed it, or taken it away from being eaten, on account of any unclean person, because I am unclean and he pure, or he pure and I unclean:

nor given ought thereof for the dead; for the necessities of the dead, as Aben Ezra; more particularly Jarchi, to make for him a coffin and grave clothes; and so the Targum of Jonathan interprets it of grave clothes for the dead; though that of Jerusalem of clothes for those that are polluted by the dead. It may have respect also to the parentalia, or funeral feasts made at the interment of the dead; though Aben Ezra says, there are some that say it was for idolatry, and so the person here speaking denies that he had made use of any of the holy things in honour of idols, of dead men deified; and some are of opinion that all the above things may have some respect to idolatrous practices p:

[but] I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, [and] have done according to all that thou hast commanded me; observed his word, and kept close to it, and not swerved from it, but acted according to it in all things before referred to.

n Misn. Demai, c. 1. sect. 2. o Maimon. in Misn. Pesachim, c. 8. sect. 6. p Vid. Patrick in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have not eaten thereof in my mourning - When the Israelite would be unclean (compare the marginal references).

Nor given ought thereof for the dead - The reference is not so much to the superstitious custom of placing food on or in tombs as to the funeral expenses, and more especially the usual feast for the mourners (compare Jeremiah 16:7; Ezekiel 24:17; Hosea 9:4; Tobit 4:17). The dedicated things were to be employed in glad and holy feasting, not therefore for funeral banquets; for death and all associated with it was regarded as unclean.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 26:14. I have not - given aught thereof for the dead — That is, I have not consecrated any of it to an idol which was generally a dead man whom superstition and ignorance had deified. From 1 Corinthians 10:27-28, we learn that it was customary to offer that flesh to idols which was afterwards sold publicly in the shambles; probably the blood was poured out before the idol in imitation of the sacrifices offered to the true God. Perhaps the text here alludes to a similar custom.


 
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