Deuteronomy 16

Deuteronomy 16:1

Observe. Compare Exodus 13:3, Exodus 13:4. Leviticus 23:5, Leviticus 23:6. Numbers 28:16.

Abib is Egyptian and means “green ears”. Compare Exodus 9:31. Leviticus 2:14. Not found again after this passage. “Nisan” substituted for it.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.

Deuteronomy 16:2

to place = to make a habitation for.

Deuteronomy 16:3

bread of affliction. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject) = bread which is the symbol of their affliction in Egypt.

in haste. Not the reason given in Exodus 12:17 for the Exodus. But here the reason why the bread was un-. leavened. There was no time for it to “rise” by fermentation.

Deuteronomy 16:4

leavened = fermented. Compare Exodus 13:7; Exodus 12:18-20.

Deuteronomy 16:5

gates. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part), App-6, put for the cities themselves. Note the Introversion of the lines of this member, verses: Deuteronomy 16:5, Deuteronomy 16:6.

Deuteronomy 16:7

roast = -cook.

Deuteronomy 16:8

seventh day. Compare Exodus 12:16; Exodus 13:6.

Deuteronomy 16:9

corn = standing corn.

Deuteronomy 16:11

And. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton in this verse. See App-6.

Deuteronomy 16:12

in Egypt. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, have “in the land of Egypt”.

Deuteronomy 16:13

corn = threshing-floor Put by Figure of speech Metonymy,

wine = winepress. for what is produced from them.

Deuteronomy 16:14

And. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton. App-6.

Deuteronomy 16:16

appear. See note on Exodus 23:15, Exodus 23:17.

Deuteronomy 16:17

man. Hebrew. ’ish. See App-14.

Deuteronomy 16:19

thou shalt not. A special reading, known as Sevir, has “neither shalt thou”. See App-34.

gift = bribe.

Deuteronomy 16:20

altogether just. This is the rendering of the Figure of speech Epizeuxis (App-6). Hebrew “just, just”, i.e. perfectly just.

Deuteronomy 16:21

grove. Hebrew. ’asherah. See App-42. Here in the feminine gender.

Deuteronomy 16:22

image = pillar.