Deuteronomy 26:14

I have not eaten thereof in my mourning Heb. -awen, sorrow; so in Hosea 9:4, the bread of sorrowsis unclean. If the mourner, unclean by contact with the dead, ate part of the tithe, he defiled it all.

neither have I put away thereof, being unclean Same vb. as in Deuteronomy 26:13. While separating this tithe to its charitable ends, a ritual act, he has to take care to be ritually clean.

nor given thereof for the dead or to the dead. The reference is obscure; either the custom of contributing to a mourning feast (2 Samuel 3:35; Jeremiah 16:7 f., Ezekiel 24:17); or that of offering food at the grave as if for consumption by the dead (Tob 4:17, Sir 30:18); or of sacrificing to the spirits of the dead, as is annually done by the Arabs, minshan el mawât, -for the sake of the dead," as the chief of the -Adwan once explained to the present writer.

I have hearkened, etc.] Cp. Deuteronomy 15:5; I have done, etc., cp. Deuteronomy 5:32, etc.