The Confeſſion, Thankſgiving, and Rejoycing befere the Lord, of him who offereth firſt=fruits, 1-===-—=--11, £6 alſo of the three years Tythes, 12, 16. | The Covenant between God and his People ratified, 17----19.
AN Dit fhal be when thou 77 come in unto che land
-\vkich the LORD thy God giveth thee for an in- heritange, and polſeſſeſt ic, and dwelleſt therein.
- 2 * Thar thouſbalt rake 2of the firſt of all the fruit of the carth þ, which thou ſhalt bring of thy land: that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou ſhalt pur zt in a baskec,. and ſhalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God ſhal chuſe to place bis Name there.
a This ſeems to be required of each particular Maſter of a Family, citker upon; his firſt Settlement, or once every year at one of their three feaſts, when they were obliged togo up to eruſalem, as here they are. b Either of their Corn, or of the Fruit of Trees. ;
3 And thok ſhalt go unto the prieſt c that (bal be in thoſe days, and ſay unto him, I profeſs this day unto the LORD thy God, that I 2meome unto the countrey which the LORD {ware unto our fathers for to give us.
c (i.e.) To any of the Prieſts, who ſhall be appointed in God's ſtead to receive theſe oblations and acknowledgments.
k And the prieft ſhal rake the basker out of thine hand gd ſet it down. before the altar of the LORD
thy God, { © 5- And thou ſhalt ſpeak, and ſay before the LORD 'thy God, 4 Syrian d ready to periſh e was my father, and * he went down into Egypt, and ſojourned there
ay 'witha few, and became there a nation, great, mighty,
4 So Jacob was, partly by his original, as being born of Syrian Pa- -rents, as Were 4braham and Rebecca, both of Chaldes or Meſoporamnia, which was a part of Syria largely ſo called, as is confeffet by Strabo,
* 6.16.: an by Pliny, b. 5. c. 12. partly by his education and converſa- .tion, for which reaſon Chriſtis called a Nazarite, and a Capernaite; .and partly by:lis relations, his wives being ſuch, and his children too by their Mothers. e Either through want and poverty ; ſee Gen:-28. T1, 20, and 32. 10. or through the rage of his brother Eſau, . and the; rreachery and cruelty of his father in law Laban.
*Ex.23 19 Ch. 16. 10.
Ed ts, and laid upon us hard bondage. = Ex. 2.23. ::9 And * when we cried unto the LORD God of our
aMficion, and our labor, and our oppreffion.
8 And * the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand,and with an out-ftretched arm,and with great terribleneſs,and with ſigns,and with wonders. _ 9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, ever a land that floweth with milk and honey. - } Þ ;
x0 And now,behold, I have brought che firſt-frnits of
*Exod.12. 36, 37»
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DHEBUTRAROMNOM T.
*Ex.1,11:: 6 Afid *the-Egyptians evil intreated us, and afflit-
fathers, the LORD heaxd our voice,and tooked on our |
| thee to do the
the land, which thou, O LORD, haſt given me; and ;
thou ſhalt ſet e it f before the LORD thy God,and wor- ſhip before the LORD thy God.
e To wit, mediately, by the Prieſt who was to ſet it there, v. 4. F (5. e.) the basket of frſt-fruits, v. 2. 11 And thou fhalt rejoyceg in every good th7mg which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, &unto thine houſe, thou, and theLevite, and the ſtranger that zs among you.
£ (i. e.) Either 1. thou ſhalt hereby be cnabled to rejoyce and take comfort in all thy enjoyments, when thou haſt ſanftifhed them by giving God his portion. Or 2. thou ſhalt feaſt, ( which is oft ex- preſſed by rejoycing) with the Levites and ſtrangers upon the obla- tions which at theſe ſolemn times were offered. Which e> poſition is confirmed by comparing Den. 16. 10, 11, 14, 15.
12 When thou hatt made an end of tithing all the
tithes þ of thine increaſe, the third year, which is * the .
CES - p a h : year of cithings, and haſt given #7 unto the Levite, the .g "P14,
ſtranger, the fatherleſs, and the widow, that they may
eat within thy gates, and be filled :
h Of which ſee on Deur: 14: 28. i Heb: the year of that tithe, fo called,cither 1.becauſe theſe tithes were gathered only in that year. Or rather, 2.becauſe then only they were ſo beſtowed or uſed;and whereas theſe ſecond tithes for two years together were eaten only by the owners and Levites, and that in Jeruſalem, in the third year they were eaten alſo by the ſtrangers, fatherleſs, and widows, and . that in their own dwellings. The ſeventy joyn theſe words with the following, and for Shenath, the year, read Shenith, the ſecond, and take Yau for redundant, asſometimes it is, and read the place thus, The ſecond tithe thou ſhalt give, to the Levite, &Cc. :
13 Then thou ſhalt ſay beforethe LORD thy God &, I have brought away /the hallowed things »s out of mine houſg, and alſo have given them unto the Levite, and unto the ſtranger, to the fatherleſs, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou haſt commanded me : I have not tranſgreſſed thy command- ments, neither have I forgotten them.
k (i. e.) Either before the Tabernacle or Temple : or rather, in thy private and domeſtick Addreſſes to God ; for this is to be faid preſently upon the diſtribution of theſe tithes, which was not done at Feruſalem, but in their own private gates or dwellings; except we will ſuppoſe that after he had given away theſe tithes at home he ſhould go up to Jeruſalem meerly to make this acknowledgment, which ſeems improbable. And this is to be ſpoken befere the Lord, z:e: ſolemnly ; ſeriouſly, and in a religious manner, with due re- ſpe& ro God's preſence and will and glory, which ts a ſufficient ground for that Phraſe. 1 Or, ſeparated, or removed, to wit, from my own proper and private Fruits. m2 (7.e.) The tithes which have been ſan&ifiedand ſer apart for theſe uſes.
14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning », nei- ther have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean ſe o, nor given ought thereof for the dead p: but I have bear- kened to the voice of the LORD my God,and have done according to all that thou haſt commanded me.