These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Deuteronomy 12
Tanakh 32 verses
- 1 These are the statutes and the ordinances, which ye shall observe to do in the land which , the of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
- 2 Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that ye are to dispossess served their Elohims, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every leafy tree.
- 3 And ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their Elohims; and ye shall destroy their out of that place.
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Ye shall not do so unto your .
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But unto the place which your shall choose out of all your tribes to put His there, even unto His habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come;
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2 Chronicles 7:12 Deuteronomy 12:11 1 Kings 8:29 Deuteronomy 26:2 Deuteronomy 16:2 Psalm 78:68 Joshua 18:1 Colossians 2:9 Exodus 25:22 Acts 7:48-50 1 Kings 8:16 Ephesians 2:20-22 Exodus 15:2 Revelation 14:1 Numbers 7:89 Isaiah 66:1-2 1 Chronicles 22:1 1 Kings 14:21 John 4:20-22 1 Kings 8:27 Psalm 132:13-14 Deuteronomy 12:13 Joshua 9:27 Hebrews 12:22 1 Kings 8:20 Psalm 87:2-3 - 6 and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock;
- 7 and there ye shall eat before your , and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein thy hath blessed thee.
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Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;
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for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which your giveth thee.
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But when ye go over the , and dwell in the land which your causeth you to inherit, and He giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
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then it shall come to pass that the place which your shall choose to cause His to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto .
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Deuteronomy 12:5 Deuteronomy 15:20 Deuteronomy 18:6 Deuteronomy 17:8 John 4:20-23 Deuteronomy 31:11 Joshua 18:1 Psalm 78:68 Jeremiah 7:12 Deuteronomy 14:23 1 Kings 8:13 Deuteronomy 23:16 Deuteronomy 12:18 Deuteronomy 16:2-8 1 Kings 8:29 Deuteronomy 26:2 Deuteronomy 12:21 Deuteronomy 12:26 Deuteronomy 12:14 -
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And ye shall rejoice before your , ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the that is within your gates, forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inheritance with you.
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Deuteronomy 12:7 Deuteronomy 26:12 Deuteronomy 10:9 Numbers 18:20 Deuteronomy 12:19 Deuteronomy 14:29 2 Chronicles 29:36 Joshua 14:4 Psalm 147:1 Psalm 100:1-2 1 John 1:3-4 Nehemiah 8:10-12 Joshua 13:14 Numbers 18:23-24 1 Kings 8:66 2 Chronicles 30:21-26 Joshua 13:33 Deuteronomy 16:11 Deuteronomy 18:6 Deuteronomy 16:14 Deuteronomy 14:26-27 Numbers 18:26 Deuteronomy 18:1-2 -
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Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;
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but in the place which shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
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Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy , according to the of thy which He hath given thee; the unclean and the may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
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Only ye shall not eat the ; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
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- 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the of thy hand;
- 18 but thou shalt eat them before thy in the place which thy shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-, and thy maid-, and the that is within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice before thy in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.
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Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the as long as thou livest upon thy land.
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When thy shall enlarge thy border, as He hath promised thee, and thou shalt say: ‘I will eat flesh’, because thy desireth to eat ; thou mayest eat , after all the desire of thy .
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Deuteronomy 19:8 Deuteronomy 11:24 Exodus 34:24 Genesis 28:14 2 Samuel 13:39 Philippians 1:8 1 Chronicles 4:10 Deuteronomy 12:15 Numbers 11:20 Psalm 107:9 Genesis 31:30 Psalm 119:40 2 Samuel 23:15 2 Corinthians 9:14 Psalm 84:2 Psalm 119:20 Psalm 119:174 Numbers 11:4 Philippians 2:26 Exodus 23:31 Genesis 15:18-21 Numbers 11:34 Psalm 63:1 - 21 If the place which thy shall choose to put His there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy .
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Howbeit as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof; the unclean and the may eat thereof alike.
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Only be stedfast in not eating the ; for the is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the .
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Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
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- 25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of .
- 26 Only thy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which shall choose;
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and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the and the , upon the of thy ; and the of thy sacrifices shall be poured out against the of thy , and thou shalt eat the .
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- 28 Observe and all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the eyes of thy .
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When thy shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land;
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- 30 take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their Elohims, saying: ‘How used these nations to their Elohims? even so will I do likewise.’
- 31 Thou shalt not do so unto thy ; for every abomination to , which He hateth, have they done unto their Elohims; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their Elohims.
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All this which I command you, that shall ye observe to do; thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
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