In this video listen to Deuteronomy 14 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In Deuteronomy 14 the speech of Moses continues, now relating specific things they should and should not do much of which has already been discussed in earlier books, such as in Leviticus 11. We then discuss practical matters relating to travel and sacrifices.

If the distance from where a worshiper lived ws too far to go to the temple, to conveniently take the sacrifices, they could instead buy the sacrifice on location. This is exactly what happened at the temple, with an industry booming supplying lambs for sacrifices at the temple. It is almost certain that the shepherds in the fields at Bethlehem, just ten miles or so from Jerusalem, who saw the glorious Christmas angels, were raising sheep that would be used in temple sacrifices, and ulti ...