Deuteronomy 14

Deuteronomy 14:1-21

Major teaches them, 1. To distinguish themselves from their neighbours, in their mourning, vers. 1, 2. 2. In their most, vers. 3—21. 3. Religiously to devote their tythes to God, vers. 22—9.

1. YE are the children of the LORD your God: ‘Ye shall not eat yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2. For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. 3. ¶ Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4. ‘These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5. The hart, and the roe-buck, and the fallow-deer, and the wild goat, and the ++ pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chanzo. 6. And every beast that pareth the hoof, and cleaveth the clerk into two claws, and cheweth the cud amongst the beasts; that ye shall eat. 7. Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof: therefore they are unclean unto you. 8. And the twine, because it divaleth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, ’nor touch their dead car-cade. 9. ¶ ‘These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: 10. And whatsoever hath not fins and scales, ye may not eat: it is unclean unto you. 11. ¶ Of all clean fowls ye shall eat. 12. But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the offisage, and the ofspray, 13. And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, 14. And every raven after his kind, 15. And the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, 16. The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, 17. And the pelican, and the gier-eagle, and the cormorant, 18. And the store, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. 19. ¶ And every creeping thing that doth, it unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. 20. But of all clean fowls ye may eat. 21. ¶ Ye shall not eat of any thing that doth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it, or thou mayst sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. ‘Thou shalt not feethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

God having chosen Ifeast for his own, of sovereign grace separated them from the nations, adopted them as his children, and designed them for his glory, he has a right to expect from them that they should answer these purposes of his grace, and approve them-

Before Christ 1415.

Deuteronomy 14:13-17

The feast of tabernacles was the last holy solemnity, during which they dwelt in booths, in memory of their dojourning in the wilderness; and with feasting and holy joy commemorated God’s mercies towards them. They were enjoined to invite, as before, the neoclassical to partake with them, that none might be mourning for want in these days of rejoicing. Nate, When we are happy ourselves, we should call our neighbours to rejoice with us, and seek to communicate that gladness of heart which we enjoy. On each of these three solemnities, all the males appeared before God, each with his free-will-offering, according to the blessing of God upon his labours. God expects a grateful acknowledgment, and he is little or much, it is alike accepted, according to our several abilities.