Deuteronomy 16:10

Verse 10. Hand. Hebrew and Septuagint “as much as thy hand is able;” an offering, bearing a due proportion with what God has bestowed upon thee. Bible.—Each one was exhorted to make peace-offerings and feasts, at Jerusalem, in honour of God, verse 11. On these festival days the first-born, fattened animals, were brought to be slain. Calmet. 12:17 and 14:23. The Jews think that by these feasts their solemnities are very much honoured. But the intention of the lawgiver, was only to keep them at a distance from the profane rejoicings of the pagans, and to raise their thoughts and their hearts, by degrees, to the more solid spiritual delights. There were, however, too much inclined to stop at the gratification of the senses, and understood in that sense the sabbath, which Isaias (58:13,) calls delightful, or delicate. Buxt. Syn. x.