5To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them for peace offerings unto the LORD.
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For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)This statute obliged all the people of Israel to bring all their sacrifices to God’s altar, to be offered there. And as to this matter we must consider, I. How it stood before. 1. It was allowed to all people to build altars, and offer sacrifices to God, where they pleased. Wherever Abraham had a tent he built an altar, and every master of a family was a priest to his own family, as Job 1:5. 2. Th…
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