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Chinese Union (Simplified)

利未记 17:3

凡 以 色 列 家 中 的 人 宰 公 牛 , 或 是 绵 羊 羔 , 或 是 山 羊 , 不 拘 宰 於 营 内 营 外 ,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Oxen;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Life;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Discipline;   Kill, Killing;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bullock;   High Place;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   High Places;   Ox;   Unclean and Clean;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Crimes and Punishments;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Priests and Levites;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ox;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Altar;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Leviticus;   Maccabees, Books of;   Sanctuary;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandments, the 613;   Sacrifice;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
以色列家的任何人,不論在營內,或在營外,宰殺公牛、綿羊或山羊,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

be of: Leviticus 17:8, Leviticus 17:12, Leviticus 17:13, Leviticus 17:15

that killeth an: Deuteronomy 12:5-7, Deuteronomy 12:11-15, Deuteronomy 12:20-22, Deuteronomy 12:26, Deuteronomy 12:27

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:6 - your burnt Deuteronomy 12:15 - the unclean 1 Kings 3:2 - the people

Gill's Notes on the Bible

What man soever [there be] of the house of Israel,.... Whether high or low, rich or poor:

that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat in the camp; which are particularly mentioned, as Gersom observes, because of these the offerings were; for the law respects the killing of them not for common food, but for sacrifice, as appears from the following verses; for this law was to be a statute for ever, whereas in that sense it was not, and could not be observed, especially when they were come into the land of Canaan; nor would it have been decent or convenient to have brought such vast numbers of cattle every day to be killed at the door of the tabernacle, and must have made the service of the priests extremely laborious to kill them, or even to see that they were killed aright:

or that killeth [it] out of the camp; which furnishes out another reason against the same notion, since it was not usual to kill for common food without the camp, but in their own tents within it; whereas to sacrifice without the camp was commonly done.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Every domesticated animal that was slain for food was a sort of peace-offering Leviticus 17:5. This law could only be kept as long as the children of Israel dwelt in their camp in the wilderness. The restriction was removed before they settled in the holy land, where their numbers and diffusion over the country would have rendered its strict observance impossible. See Deuteronomy 12:15-16, Deuteronomy 12:20-24.

Leviticus 17:4

Blood shall be imputed unto that man - i. e. he has incurred guilt in shedding blood in an unlawful manner.

Cut off - See Exodus 31:14 note.

Leviticus 17:5

Rather, May bring their beasts for slaughter, which they (now) slaughter in the open field. even that they may bring them before Yahweh to the entrance of the tent of meeting unto the priests, and slaughter them as peace-offerings to Yahweh.

Leviticus 17:7

Devils - The word in the original is the “shaggy goat” of Leviticus 4:23. But it is sometimes employed, as here, to denote an object of pagan worship or a demon dwelling in the deserts 2 Chronicles 11:15; Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 34:14. The worship of the goat, accompanied by the foulest rites, prevailed in Lower Egypt; and the Israelites may have been led into this snare while they dwelt in Egypt.

This law for the slaughtering of animals was not merely to exclude idolatry from the chosen nation. It had a more positive and permanent purpose. It bore witness to the sanctity of life: it served to remind the people of the solemnity of the grant of the lives of all inferior creatures made to Noah Genesis 9:2-3; it purged and directed toward Yahweh the feelings in respect to animal food which seem to be common to man’s nature; and it connected a habit of thanksgiving with the maintenance of our human life by means of daily food. 1 Timothy 4:3-5. Having acknowledged that the animal belonged to Yahweh the devout Hebrew received back its flesh as Yahweh’s gift.


 
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