open field] Before the tabernacle was built, they used to offer sacrifices abroad, sometimes in fields, sometimes on mountains, and in groaves; but they are now charged to bring them unto the door of the Tabernaele. peace-offerings] The like is to be understood of sinne-offerings, and whole-burnt-offerings, though they be not expressed as these be; which are not therefore particularly named, because they were more limited for these Oblations then for others; but lest they should take more liberty in these then in others; because they were most frequent, and were in part applied to feast the offerer; and in this precise caution for that which was more common, the whole-burnt-offering was the better secured from contemptible communities which might befall it, if it should be offered any where but in an holy place appointed for that purpose.