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gates

Meaning of “gates”

Movable barriers and the entrances they close in walls, cities, courts, houses, or enclosed places; by extension, the city, jurisdiction, public place, or access represented by those entrances.

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First occurrence: Exodus 20:10

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Deuteronomy 14:21
¶ Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 14:21 · retained source text

¶ Ye shall not eate of any thing that dieth of it selfe: thou shalt giue it vnto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eate it, or thou mayest sell it vnto an alien: for thou art an holy people vnto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kidde in his mothers milke.

1611 marginal noteExod. 23.19. and 34.26.

Deuteronomy 14:27
And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 14:27 · retained source text

And the Leuite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him: for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

1611 marginal noteChap. 12.19.

Deuteronomy 14:28
¶ At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 14:28 · retained source text

¶ At the end of three yeres thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same yeere, and shalt lay it vp within thy gates.

Deuteronomy 14:29
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 14:29 · retained source text

And the Leuite, because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widowe which are within thy gates, shall come and shal eate, and be satisfied, that the LORD thy God may blesse thee, in all the worke of thine hande which thou doest.

Deuteronomy 15:7
¶ If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 15:7 · retained source text

¶ If there be among you a poore man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates, in thy lande which the LORD thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poore brother:

Deuteronomy 15:22
Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 15:22 · retained source text

Thou shalt eate it within thy gates: the vncleane and the cleane person shall eat it alike, as the Roe bucke, and as the Hart.

Deuteronomy 16:5
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 16:5 · retained source text

Thou mayest not sacrifice the Passeouer within any of the gates, which the LORD thy God giueth thee.

1611 marginal noteOr, kill.

Deuteronomy 16:11
And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 16:11 · retained source text

And thou shalt reioyce before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy man seruant and thy maid seruant, and the Leuite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his Name there.

Deuteronomy 16:14
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 16:14 · retained source text

And thou shalt reioice in thy feast, thou, and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy man seruant, and thy maid seruant, and the Leuite, the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

Deuteronomy 16:18
¶ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 16:18 · retained source text

¶ Iudges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates which the LORD thy God giueth thee throughout thy tribes: and they shall iudge the people with iust iudgement.

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