Sacrifice peace offerings: these are sacrifices in which only part of the animal was burned on the altar; the rest was eaten by the worshipers. This sacrifice is not mentioned by name elsewhere in Deuteronomy (but see the comments on 12.27; also see Exo 20.34 and Lev 3.1-17). The purpose of the offering was to restore shalom or fellowship with someone else. Modern translations use different terms for it: Revised English Bible “shared-offering”; New Revised Standard Version “sacrifice of well-being”; Good News Translation “fellowship offering”; or we may say “offer sacrifices to restore fellowship with each other,” or even “kill animals before Yahweh to restore….”

For eat and rejoice see 26.11; Exo 32.6.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Deuteronomy. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2000. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .