John Gill's Exposition on Nehemiah 10:36

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Also the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, etc.] Such as were unclean, as Aben Ezra notes, as the ass, etc. and are distinguished from clean ones mentioned in the following clause; now both these, their sons, and this sort of cattle, were to be redeemed by a price paid to the priests: as it is written in the law, (<021302>Exodus 13:2,13 <041815>Numbers 18:15,16), and the firstlings of our herds, and of our flocks; clean cattle, which were to be offered, (<041817>Numbers 18:17,18), to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God; a price for the one sort, and the other for sacrifice.

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