Deuteronomium 16:5

Staten Vertaling

Gij zult het pascha niet mogen slachten in een uwer poorten, die de HEERE, uw God, u geeft.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Gij moogt het Pascha niet slachten in enige van uwe poorten, welke de Heer, uw God, u geven zal,

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Het is u niet geoorloofd het paaschoffer te slachten in een uwer steden, die de Heer, uw god, u geeft;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sacrifice: or, kill, Deuteronomy 16:2, Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:10 - General Exodus 12:15 - Seven Exodus 12:25 - when Exodus 12:27 - It is the sacrifice Exodus 20:24 - in all places

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The cardinal point on which the whole of the prescriptions in this chapter turn, is evidently the same as has been so often insisted on in the previous chapters, namely, the concentration of the religious services of the people round one common sanctuary. The prohibition against observing the great Feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and tabernacle, the three annual epochs in the sacred year of the Jew, at home and in private, is reiterated in a variety of words no less than six times in the first sixteen verses of this chapter Deuteronomy 16:2, Deuteronomy 16:6-7, Deuteronomy 16:11, Deuteronomy 16:15-16. Hence, it is easy to see why nothing is here said of the other holy days.

The Feast of Passover Exodus 12:1-27; Numbers 9:1-14; Leviticus 23:1-8. A re-enforcement of this ordinance was the more necessary because its observance had clearly been intermitted for thirty-nine years (see Joshua 6:10). One Passover only had been kept in the wilderness, that recorded in Numbers 9:0, where see the notes.

Deuteronomy 16:2

Sacrifice the passover - “i. e.” offer the sacrifices proper to the feast of the Passover, which lasted seven days. Compare a similar use of the word in a general sense in John 18:28. In the latter part of Deuteronomy 16:4 and in the following verses Moses passes, as the context again shows, into the narrower sense of the word Passover.

Deuteronomy 16:7

After the Paschal Supper in the courts or neighborhood of the sanctuary was over, they might disperse to their several “tents” or “dwellings” 1 Kings 8:66. These would of course be within a short distance of the sanctuary, because the other Paschal offerings were yet to be offered day by day for seven days and the people would remain to share them; and especially to take part in the holy convocation on the first and seventh of the days.