Deuteronomy 12:1-31
[the statues.]
long <03117> [all the days.]
destroy <06> [utterly.]
[posses. or, inherit.]
tear down ............... cut down <05422 01438> [ye shall.]
tear down <05422> [overthrow. Heb. break down. and burn.]
eliminate <06> [and destroy.]
place <04725> [But unto.]
residence <07933> [habitation.]
burnt offerings <05930> [your burnt.]
tithes <04643> [tithes.]
feast <0398> [And there.]
feast ......... rejoice <0398 08055> [ye shall.]
<0376> [every man.]
When ... do go across <05674> [But when.]
settle ......................... live <03427> [ye dwell.]
place <04725> [a place.]
choice <04005> [your choice. Heb. the choice of your.]
rejoice <08055> [And ye.]
Levites <03881> [the Levite.]
since <03588> [forasmuch.]
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This was directly opposed to the customs of the heathen idolaters, in offering their sacrifices on the tops of hills and mountains.
<05315> [whatsoever.]
ritually .... impure <02931> [the unclean.]
Of the propriety of eating clean animals there could be no question, but the blood must be poured out: yet there were cases when they might kill and eat in all their gates such as the roebuck and the hart, or all clean wild beasts; for these being taken in hunting, and frequently shot by arrows, their blood could not be poured out at the altar
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tithe <04643> [the tithe.]
eat <0398> [thou must.]
rejoice <08055> [rejoice.]
Be careful <08104> [Take.]
long <03117> [as long, etc. Heb. all thy days.]
extends <07337> [shall.]
said <01696> [as he hath.]
eat ...... please ........ wish <0398> [I will.]
locate <07760> [to put.]
<02388> [sure. Heb. strong. the blood is.]
well <03190> [that it.]
doing <06213> [when.]
holy <06944> [holy.]
votive offerings <05088> [thy vows.]
burnt offerings <05930> [thy burnt.]
blood ........... blood <01818> [and the blood.]
careful <08104> [Observe.]
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well <03190> [that it may.]
eliminates <03772> [cut off.]
dispossess <03423> [succeedest. Heb. inheritest. or, possessest.]
be ensnared ....... pursue <05367 01875> [that thou.]
After <0310> [by following. Heb. after. How did.]
worship ......... do .............. done <06213> [Thou.]
Lord ............ abhorrent <08441 03068> [abomination to the. Heb. abomination of the. even their sons.]
The unnatural and horrid practice of offering human sacrifices not only existed, but universally prevailed among ancient nations. We have already (Note on Lev 20:2) referred to the custom among the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, descendants from the Canaanitish nations, of sacrificing their children to Moloch, or Saturn; and we will now cite a passage from Diodorus Siculus, (lib. xx.) which immediately precedes that already produced relative to this barbarous custom. He states that the Carthaginians imputed their being besieged by Agathocles to the anger of Saturn, because, instead of sacrificing the best of their own children, as formerly, they had sacrificed children bought for that purpose. "In haste, therefore, to rectify their errors, they chose 200 of the noblest children, and publicly sacrificed them! Others, accused of irreligion, voluntarily gave themselves up, to the number of no less than 300!"
