OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 20:24

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You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

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Verse 24. Earth, which may be destroyed with ease, to prevent any profanation.—Place. Where the tabernacle shall be fixed, you shall offer sacrifice, and I will hear you. The ark was afterwards deposited in the temple, where alone the Jews were, consequently, allowed to sacrifice. Bible.—Samuel offered victims at Mespha and Ramatha, by the dispensation of God. 1 Kennicott. 7:9, 17. Menochius.

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