Question XI. Whether, the tabernacle being transferred to Shiloh and the camp being fixed in that same place, the observance of the Mosaic ceremonies and of the whole law began?

Many [things] indeed of the ceremonies, and of the whole law which Moses had brought from the Lord, had begun to be observed at Gilgal. For among these, circumcision and the Pasch began, as we saw above (ch. 5). Nor [is it] to be doubted that sacrifices — either daily, or very many which the Israelites offered of their own accord — were made. In the first division of the land too, the Sabbatical and Jubilee years began. Perhaps also in the wilderness, when the tabernacle clung fixed somewhere, some victims [were] at times sacrificed. But at Shiloh, the tabernacle being once established, all [things] began to be brought into use and custom — even [those] from which [they] had abstained up to this [point] of time — and [they] began [to observe them] out of obligation. Which [thing] Abulensis writes briefly and clearly, thus, in this place (q. 1): “It is to be considered that at this time, when the tabernacle was fixed in Shiloh, the ceremonial [precepts] of the old testament began to bind. For before the Israelites entered into the land of Canaan, they were not bound to any ceremonial [observances], as is clear [from] Deut. 12, where it is said that in the desert each one did what seemed right to himself; but after they should pass into the possession which the Lord was about to give them, they ought not so to do. Likewise, after they entered into the land of Canaan, they were not immediately bound to the observance, but after peace [was] obtained, the enemies [being] vanquished, as is clear from the aforecited chapter. Likewise, granted that peace were given from the enemies, [they] still were not bound to the ceremonies immediately; but first a place was to be assigned for sacrifice, and then daily and votive and spontaneous sacrifices could be made, and oblations and the other ceremonies which pertained to the sanctuary might be observed. Even then the festivities could be observed. For all the feasts had some ceremony of sacrifices, and without them there was not a full observance of the law, as is handed down in the same ch. 12 of Deut.” Thus far the Tostatus [Abulensis].