Deuteronomy 12 (NET)

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Deuteronomy 12:1¹These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:40 Job 7:1 Deut 12:19 Deut 4:1-2 Deut 4:19 Deut 4:45 Deut 4:5 Deut 4:9-10 Deut 6:1-2 Ps 104:33

Deuteronomy 12:2²You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods—on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 7:5 2 Kgs 16:4 Num 33:51-52 2 Kgs 17:10-11 Deut 7:25-26 Exod 34:12-17 Ezek 20:28-29 Jer 3:6 2 Kgs 23:13 Exod 23:24

Deuteronomy 12:3³You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 2:2 Num 33:52 Zech 13:2 Ps 16:4 Deut 7:5 Exod 23:13 1 Kgs 15:13 2 Chr 19:3 2 Chr 31:1 2 Chr 34:3

Deuteronomy 12:4⁴You must not worship the Lord your God the way they worship.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 20:23 Deut 20:18 Deut 12:30-31 Deut 16:21-22

Deuteronomy 12:5⁵But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:11 2 Chr 7:12 Deut 26:2 Deut 16:2 1 Kgs 8:29 Deut 12:13 Ps 132:13-14 Ps 78:68 Isa 66:1-2 Ps 87:2-3

Deuteronomy 12:6⁶And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 15:19-20 Deut 12:17 Deut 14:22-26 Deut 26:2 Ezek 20:40 Lev 17:3-9 Lev 27:32-33 Luke 11:42 Luke 18:12 Mal 3:10

Deuteronomy 12:7⁷Both you and your families must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:18 Deut 14:26 Lev 23:40 Deut 12:12 Phil 4:4 Ps 128:1-2 Deut 14:23 Deut 15:20 Deut 16:11-15 Deut 27:7

Deuteronomy 12:8⁸You must not do as we are doing here today, with everyone doing what seems best to him,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 21:25 Judg 17:6 Prov 21:2 Acts 7:42 Num 15:39 Amos 5:25

Deuteronomy 12:9⁹for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:56 Deut 25:19 Ps 95:11 Heb 4:8-9 Mic 2:10 1 Chr 23:25 1 Pet 1:3-4

Deuteronomy 12:10¹⁰When you do go across the Jordan River and settle in the land he is granting you as an inheritance and you find relief from all the enemies who surround you, you will live in safety.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 34:28 Jer 33:11 Deut 11:31 Deut 3:27 Deut 4:22 1 Kgs 4:25 1 Sam 7:12 Deut 33:12 Deut 33:28 Deut 9:1

Deuteronomy 12:11¹¹Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you—your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings that you devote to him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:5 Deut 15:20 Deut 16:2-8 Deut 17:8 Deut 18:6 John 4:20-23 1 Kgs 8:13 1 Kgs 8:29 Deut 12:14 Deut 12:18

Deuteronomy 12:12¹²You shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:7 Deut 10:9 Deut 26:12 Deut 12:19 Deut 14:29 1 Kgs 8:66 2 Chr 29:36 2 Chr 30:21-26 Josh 13:33 Josh 14:4

Deuteronomy 12:13¹³Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 12:28-32 1 Kgs 15:34 2 Chr 15:17 Deut 12:6 Lev 17:2-5

Deuteronomy 12:14¹⁴for you may do so only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas—there you may do everything I am commanding you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:19 Deut 12:11 Deut 12:5 Heb 10:19-22 Heb 13:15 Ps 5:7 Ps 9:11

Deuteronomy 12:15¹⁵On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 14:5 Deut 12:20-23 Deut 14:26 Deut 15:22-23 Lev 17:3-5

Deuteronomy 12:16¹⁶However, you must not eat blood—pour it out on the ground like water.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 9:4 Deut 15:23 Acts 15:29 Deut 12:23-24 1 Tim 4:4 Lev 17:10-13 Lev 7:26-27

Deuteronomy 12:17¹⁷You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 26:14 Deut 12:6 Deut 14:22-29 Deut 12:11 Deut 12:26 Deut 26:12 Lev 27:30-32 Num 18:21-24

Deuteronomy 12:18¹⁸Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:7 Deut 14:23 Deut 12:5 1 Cor 10:31 Acts 16:34 Acts 2:46 Deut 12:11-12 Deut 12:19 Deut 15:20 Gal 5:22

Deuteronomy 12:19¹⁹Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 31:4-21 Neh 10:34-39 1 Cor 9:10-14 2 Chr 11:13-14 Deut 14:27-29

Deuteronomy 12:20²⁰When the Lord your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say, “I want to eat meat just as I please,” you may do so as you wish.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 19:8 Deut 11:24 Exod 34:24 1 Chr 4:10 Gen 28:14 Deut 12:15 Exod 23:31 Gen 15:18-21 Ps 107:9 Ps 63:1

Deuteronomy 12:21²¹If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:5 1 Kgs 14:21 2 Chr 12:13 Deut 12:11 Deut 12:15 Deut 14:23-24 Deut 16:11 Deut 16:6 Deut 26:2 Exod 20:24

Deuteronomy 12:22²²As you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:15-16

Deuteronomy 12:23²³However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself —you must not eat the life with the meat.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 17:11 Gen 9:4 Lev 17:13-14 Deut 12:16 Lev 3:16-17

Deuteronomy 12:24²⁴You must not eat it! You must pour it out on the ground like water.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:16 Deut 15:23

Deuteronomy 12:25²⁵You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the Lord ’s sight.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:38 Deut 4:40 Exod 15:26 Isa 3:10 Deut 13:18 Deut 6:18 Deut 12:28 Deut 5:16 Eccl 2:26 Ezek 33:25

Deuteronomy 12:26²⁶But the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the Lord will choose.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 18:19 Num 5:9-10 1 Sam 1:21-24 Deut 12:11 Deut 12:17-18 Deut 12:21 Deut 12:6 Gen 28:20 Lev 22:18-33 Ps 66:13-15

Deuteronomy 12:27²⁷You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 1:13 Lev 1:9 Lev 17:11 Lev 1:5 Lev 4:30

Deuteronomy 12:28²⁸Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 4:40 John 15:10 John 15:14 2 Chr 7:17 Deut 12:25 Deut 24:8 Exod 34:11 Ezek 37:24 John 15:3 Lev 19:37

Deuteronomy 12:29²⁹When the Lord your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 23:4 Deut 19:1 Deut 9:3 Exod 23:23 Ps 78:55

Deuteronomy 12:30³⁰After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 20:32 Jer 10:2 Deut 7:16 Eph 4:17 Exod 23:31-33 Ezek 20:28 Ps 106:34-38 1 Pet 4:3-4 2 Kgs 17:15 Judg 2:2-3

Deuteronomy 12:31³¹You must not worship the Lord your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:35 2 Kgs 17:15-17 2 Kgs 21:2 Deut 18:9-10 Jer 7:31 Deut 12:4 Deut 9:5 Exod 23:2 Lev 18:3 2 Chr 33:2

Deuteronomy 12:32³²(13:1) You must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 4:2 Rev 22:18-19 Josh 1:7 Prov 30:6 Deut 13:18 Matt 28:20

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