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Deuteronomy 14 Introduction
英文原文
The whole life and walk of the people were to be regulated by the principle "ye are the children of the Lord your God" Deuteronomy 14:1.
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Deuteronomy 14:1
不可将额上剃光 - 即剃去头发的前部和眉毛。本节所提的这些习俗在外邦人中十分常见。它们之所以被禁止，不仅因为这样狂乱的哀恸过度（参 1 Kings 18:28）与那些作为天父儿女、拥有今生以外盼望的人不相称，也因为这些习俗本身源于拜偶像的观念。
英文原文
Make any baldness between your eyes - i. e. by shaving the forepart of the head and the eyebrows. The practices named in this verse were common among the pagan, and seem to be forbidden, not only because such wild excesses of grief (compare 1 Kings 18:28) would be inconsistent in those who as children of a heavenly Father had prospects beyond this world, but also because these usages themselves arose out of idolatrous notions.
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Deuteronomy 14:3
可与 Leviticus 11 比较。此处的差异——无论是省略还是补充——大概要由说话者所处的时代与处境来解释。
英文原文
Compare Leviticus 11. The variations here, whether omissions or additions, are probably to be explained by the time and circumstances of the speaker.
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Deuteronomy 14:5
“麋鹿”（pygarg）是瞪羚的一种；“黄羊”（wild ox）与“青羊”（chamois）则属于行动迅捷的羚羊类。
英文原文
The "pygarg" is a species of gazelle, and the "wild ox" and "chamois" are swift types of antelope.
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Deuteronomy 14:21
这一禁令是重复 Leviticus 22:8 的规定。关于尸体如何处置的指示则为申命记所独有，其动机很清楚：若禁止百姓自己吃自死的，或禁止他们让别人吃，必造成财产上的损失，从而引人违犯这命令。如今首次准许的这些让步，在旷野原属无用。四十年的漂流期间，出卖这类尸体的机会必然很少；而营中居住的非以色列人，在这类事上也要受与以色列人相同的规例约束（Leviticus 17:15；Leviticus 24:22）。再者，这里对禁食自死之物的要求，似乎比先前更严格（参较 Leviticus 17:15）。大概在这一点上，也像在许多别的事情上一样，是顾及了百姓的处境。在旷野，肉食无疑常常短缺；若完全禁用未经宰杀而死的牲畜，必成为重担。然而，如今应许之地的丰饶已在他们面前，对这种不洁之食物有条件的宽容便撤销了。
英文原文
The prohibition is repeated from Leviticus 22:8. The directions as to the disposal of the carcass are unique to Deuteronomy, and their motive is clear. To have forbidden the people either themselves to eat that which had died, or to allow any others to do so, would have involved loss of property, and consequent temptation to an infraction of the command. The permissions now for the first time granted would have been useless in the wilderness. During the 40 years' wandering there could be but little opportunity of selling such carcasses; while non-Israelites living in the camp would in such a matter be bound by the same rules as the Israelites Leviticus 17:15; Leviticus 24:22. Further, it would seem (compare Leviticus 17:15) that greater stringency is here given to the requirement of abstinence from that which had died of itself. Probably on this, as on so many other points, allowance was made for the circumstances of the people. Flesh meat was no doubt often scarce in the desert. It would therefore have been a hardship to forbid entirely the use of that which had not been killed. However, now that the plenty of the promised land was before them, the modified toleration of this unholy food was withdrawn.
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Deuteronomy 14:22
这些话以概括的措辞提醒人早先立法中关于什一奉献的命令（参较 Leviticus 27:30；Numbers 18:26），但特别指第二种什一奉献，即节期的什一奉献，那是专指农产品的。
英文原文
These words recall in general terms the command of the earlier legislation respecting tithes (compare Leviticus 27:30; Numbers 18:26), but refer more particularly to the second or festival tithe, which was an exclusively vegetable one.
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Deuteronomy 14:28
参较旁注参考经文。这里所指示的第三年在家里用于慈善施舍的什一捐，并非在往年归圣筵之用的什一捐之外另行加纳，而是代替了它。这三年大概从安息年起计算（见下一章），因为在安息年，当然既不缴纳什一捐，也不在圣所守节。在七年周期的第三年和第六年，圣筵之节当由这几节所吩咐的个人款待代替。
英文原文
Compare the marginal references. The tithe thus directed in the third year to be dispensed in charity at home, was not paid in addition to that in other years bestowed on the sacred meals, but was substituted for it. The three years would count from the sabbatical year (see the next chapter), in which year there would of course be neither payment of tithe nor celebration of the feasts at the sanctuary. In the third year and sixth year of the septennial cycle the feasts would be superseded by the private hospitality enjoined in these verses.
百姓的整个生命与行事为人，都当受“你们是耶和华你们神的儿女”（Deuteronomy 14:1）这一原则的规范。