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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 26:14

I have not eaten thereof in my mourning - When the Israelite would be unclean (compare the marginal references).

Nor given ought thereof for the dead - The reference is not so much to the superstitious custom of placing food on or in tombs as to the funeral expenses, and more especially the usual feast for the mourners (compare Jeremiah 16:7; Ezekiel 24:17; Hosea 9:4; Tobit 4:17). The dedicated things were to be employed in glad and holy feasting, not therefore for funeral banquets; for death and all associated with it was regarded as unclean.

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See also Deuteronomy 26:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 26:14. _I HAVE NOT - GIVEN AUGHT THEREOF FOR THE DEAD_] That is, I have not consecrated any of it to an _idol_ which was generally a dead man whom superstition and ignorance had dei...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹא ־אָכַ֨לְתִּי בְ אֹנִ֜י מִמֶּ֗נּוּ וְ לֹא

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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