You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you,
The three yearly feasts kept up communion between God and His people and preserved the face of religion in the nation. One week only was festival, yet their solemn preparation before and serious reflection afterward amounted to observance of the whole month; thus the ceremonies themselves became the means by which God's truth took root in their hearts.
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Commenting on Deuteronomy 16:1-17
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates,.... Or cities, as the Targum of Jonathan, so called because they usually had gates to them, in which public affairs were transacted; but in none of these, only in the city of Jerusalem, the place the Lord chose, might they kill the passover and eat it, and other passover offerings: which the Lord thy...
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates--The passover was to be observed nowhere but in the court of the tabernacle or temple, as it was not a religious feast or sacramental occasion merely, but an actual sacrifice (Exo 12:27; Exo 23:18; Exo 34:25).