Deuteronomy - 16:5



5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you;

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 16:5.

Differing Translations

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Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God will give thee:
'Thou art not able to sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee,
The Passover offering is not to be put to death in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you:
You cannot immolate the Passover in any of your cities, which the Lord your God will give to you, that you wish,
Non poteris sacrificare Pesah in aliqua e portis tuis quas Jehova Deus tuus dat tibi.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Thou mayest (d) not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
(d) This was chiefly accomplished, when the temple was built.

Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates,.... Or cities, as the Targum of Jonathan, so called because they usually had gates to them, in which public affairs were transacted; but in none of these, only in the city of Jerusalem, the place the Lord chose, might they kill the passover and eat it, and other passover offerings:
which the Lord thy God giveth thee; in the land of Canaan, and which land was given them of God.

Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates--The passover was to be observed nowhere but in the court of the tabernacle or temple, as it was not a religious feast or sacramental occasion merely, but an actual sacrifice (Exodus 12:27; Exodus 23:18; Exodus 34:25). The blood had to be sprinkled on the altar and in the place where the true Passover was afterwards to be sacrificed for us "at even, at the going down of the sun"--literally, "between the evenings."

Of thy gates - That is, of thy cities.

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