Deut.12.1
These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
Deut.12.1
These are the rules and regulations that you must diligently observe for as long as you live in this country that GOD, the God--of-Your-Fathers, has given you to possess.
Deut.12.1
These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess-as long as you live in the land.
Deut.12.1
"These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
Deut.12.1
"These are the laws and regulations you must obey as long as you live in the land the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.
Deut.12.2
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
Deut.12.2
Ruthlessly demolish all the sacred shrines where the nations that you're driving out worship their gods--wherever you find them, on hills and mountains or in groves of green trees.
Deut.12.2
Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains and on the hills and under every spreading tree where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.
Deut.12.2
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Deut.12.2
"When you drive out the nations that live there, you must destroy all the places where they worship their gods--high on the mountains, up on the hills, and under every green tree.
Deut.12.3
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Deut.12.3
Tear apart their altars. Smash their phallic pillars. Burn their sex-and-religion Asherah shrines. Break up their carved gods. Obliterate the names of those god sites.
Deut.12.3
Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.
Deut.12.3
And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.
Deut.12.3
Break down their altars and smash their sacred pillars. Burn their Asherah poles and cut down their carved idols. Erase the names of their gods from those places!
Deut.12.4
Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
Deut.12.4
Stay clear of those places--don't let what went on there contaminate the worship of GOD, your God.
Deut.12.4
You must not worship the LORD your God in their way.
Deut.12.4
You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things.
Deut.12.4
"Do not worship the LORD your God in the way these pagan peoples worship their gods.
Deut.12.5
But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
Deut.12.5
Instead find the site that GOD, your God, will choose and mark it with his name as a common center for all the tribes of Israel. Assemble there.
Deut.12.5
But you are to seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go;
Deut.12.5
"But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go.
Deut.12.5
Rather, you must seek the LORD your God at the place he himself will choose from among all the tribes for his name to be honored.
Deut.12.6
And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
Deut.12.6
Bring to that place your Absolution-Offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and Tribute-Offerings, your Vow-Offerings, your Freewill-Offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
Deut.12.6
there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
Deut.12.6
There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
Deut.12.6
There you will bring to the LORD your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your special gifts, your offerings to fulfill a vow, your freewill offerings, and your offerings of the firstborn animals of your flocks and herds.
Deut.12.7
And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
Deut.12.7
Feast there in the Presence of GOD, your God. Celebrate everything that you and your families have accomplished under the blessing of GOD, your God.
Deut.12.7
There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the LORD your God has blessed you.
Deut.12.7
And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
Deut.12.7
There you and your families will feast in the presence of the LORD your God, and you will rejoice in all you have accomplished because the LORD your God has blessed you.
Deut.12.8
Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
Deut.12.8
Don't continue doing things the way we're doing them at present, each of us doing as we wish.
Deut.12.8
You are not to do as we do here today, everyone as he sees fit,
Deut.12.8
"You shall not at all do as we are doing here today--every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes--
Deut.12.8
"Today you are doing whatever you please, but that is not how it will be
Deut.12.9
For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
Deut.12.9
Until now you haven't arrived at the goal, the resting place, the inheritance that GOD, your God, is giving you.
Deut.12.9
since you have not yet reached the resting place and the inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.
Deut.12.9
for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.
Deut.12.9
when you arrive in the place of rest the LORD your God is giving you.
Deut.12.10
But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
Deut.12.10
But the minute you cross the Jordan River and settle into the land GOD, your God, is enabling you to inherit, he'll give you rest from all your surrounding enemies. You'll be able to settle down and live in safety.
Deut.12.10
But you will cross the Jordan and settle in the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you will live in safety.
Deut.12.10
But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety,
Deut.12.10
You will soon cross the Jordan River and live in the land the LORD your God is giving you as a special possession. When he gives you rest and security from all your enemies,
Deut.12.11
Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
Deut.12.11
From then on, at the place that GOD, your God, chooses to mark with his name as the place where you can meet him, bring everything that I command you: your Absolution-Offerings and sacrifices, tithes and Tribute-Offerings, and the best of your Vow-Offerings that you vow to GOD.
Deut.12.11
Then to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name-there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the LORD.
Deut.12.11
then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD.
Deut.12.11
you must bring everything I command you--your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your special gifts, and your offerings to fulfill a vow--to the place the LORD your God will choose for his name to be honored.
Deut.12.12
And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
Deut.12.12
Celebrate there in the Presence of GOD, your God, you and your sons and daughters, your servants and maids, including the Levite living in your neighborhood because he has no place of his own in your inheritance.
Deut.12.12
And there rejoice before the LORD your God, you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites from your towns, who have no allotment or inheritance of their own.
Deut.12.12
And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Deut.12.12
You must celebrate there with your sons and daughters and all your servants in the presence of the LORD your God. And remember the Levites who live in your towns, for they will have no inheritance of land as their own.
Deut.12.13
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
Deut.12.13
Be extra careful: Don't offer your Absolution-Offerings just any place that strikes your fancy.
Deut.12.13
Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please.
Deut.12.13
Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
Deut.12.13
Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings just anywhere.
Deut.12.14
But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
Deut.12.14
Offer your Absolution-Offerings only in the place that GOD chooses in one of your tribal regions. There and only there are you to bring all that I command you.
Deut.12.14
Offer them only at the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.
Deut.12.14
but in the place which the LORD chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
Deut.12.14
You may do so only at the place the LORD will choose within one of your tribal territories. There you must offer your burnt offerings and do everything I command you.
Deut.12.15
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
Deut.12.15
It's permissible to slaughter your nonsacrificial animals like gazelle and deer in your towns and eat all you want from them with the blessing of GOD, your God. Both the ritually clean and unclean may eat.
Deut.12.15
Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the LORD your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
Deut.12.15
"However, you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike.
Deut.12.15
"But you may butcher animals for meat in any town, wherever you want, just as you do now with gazelle and deer. You may eat as many animals as the LORD your God gives you. All of you, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat that meat.
Deut.12.16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Deut.12.16
But you may not eat the blood. Pour the blood out on the ground like water.
Deut.12.16
But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
Deut.12.16
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.
Deut.12.16
The only restriction is that you are not to eat the blood. You must pour it out on the ground like water.
Deut.12.17
Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
Deut.12.17
Nor may you eat there the tithe of your grain, new wine, or olive oil; nor the firstborn of your herds and flocks; nor any of the Vow-Offerings that you vow; nor your Freewill-Offerings and Tribute-Offerings.
Deut.12.17
You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
Deut.12.17
You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, of your freewill offerings, or of the heave offering of your hand.
Deut.12.17
"But your offerings must not be eaten at home--neither the tithe of your grain and new wine and olive oil, nor the firstborn of your flocks and herds, nor an offering to fulfill a vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor your special gifts.
Deut.12.18
But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
Deut.12.18
All these you must eat in the Presence of GOD, your God, in the place GOD, your God, chooses--you, your son and daughter, your servant and maid, and the Levite who lives in your neighborhood. You are to celebrate in the Presence of GOD, your God, all the things you've been able to accomplish.
Deut.12.18
Instead, you are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose-you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites from your towns-and you are to rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you put your hand to.
Deut.12.18
But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God chooses, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all to which you put your hands.
Deut.12.18
You must eat these in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose. Eat them there with your children, your servants, and the Levites who live in your towns, celebrating in the presence of the LORD your God in all you do.
Deut.12.19
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
Deut.12.19
And make sure that for as long as you live on your land you never, never neglect the Levite.
Deut.12.19
Be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.
Deut.12.19
Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
Deut.12.19
Be very careful never to forget the Levites as long as you live in your land.
Deut.12.20
When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deut.12.20
When GOD, your God, expands your territory as he promised he would do, and you say, "I'm hungry for meat," because you happen to be craving meat at the time, go ahead and eat as much meat as you want.
Deut.12.20
When the LORD your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, "I would like some meat," then you may eat as much of it as you want.
Deut.12.20
"When the LORD your God enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, "Let me eat meat,' because you long to eat meat, you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.
Deut.12.20
"When the LORD your God enlarges your territory as he has promised, you may eat meat whenever you want.
Deut.12.21
If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deut.12.21
If you're too far away from the place that GOD, your God, has marked with his name, it's all right to slaughter animals from your herds and flocks that GOD has given you, as I've commanded you. In your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.
Deut.12.21
If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.
Deut.12.21
If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock which the LORD has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your gates as much as your heart desires.
Deut.12.21
It might happen that the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to be honored is a long way from your home. If so, you may butcher any of the cattle or sheep the LORD has given you, and you may eat the meat at your home as I have commanded you.
Deut.12.22
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
Deut.12.22
Just as the nonsacrificial animals like the gazelle and deer are eaten, you may eat them; the ritually unclean and clean may eat them at the same table.
Deut.12.22
Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.
Deut.12.22
Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them.
Deut.12.22
Anyone, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as you do now with gazelle and deer.
Deut.12.23
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
Deut.12.23
Only this: Absolutely no blood. Don't eat the blood. Blood is life; don't eat the life with the meat.
Deut.12.23
But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
Deut.12.23
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat.
Deut.12.23
The only restriction is never to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
Deut.12.24
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
Deut.12.24
Don't eat it; pour it out on the ground like water.
Deut.12.24
You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
Deut.12.24
You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth like water.
Deut.12.24
Instead, pour out the blood on the ground like water.
Deut.12.25
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 sight of the LORD.
Deut.12.25
Don't eat it; then you'll have a good life, you and your children after you. By all means, do the right thing in GOD's eyes.
Deut.12.25
Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
Deut.12.25
You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.
Deut.12.25
Do not eat the blood; then all will go well with you and your children, because you will be doing what pleases the LORD.
Deut.12.26
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
Deut.12.26
And this: Lift high your Holy-Offerings and your Vow-Offerings and bring them to the place GOD designates.
Deut.12.26
But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give, and go to the place the LORD will choose.
Deut.12.26
Only the holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.
Deut.12.26
Take your sacred gifts and your offerings given to fulfill a vow to the place the LORD chooses to dwell.
Deut.12.27
And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
Deut.12.27
Sacrifice your Absolution-Offerings, the meat and blood, on the Altar of GOD, your God; pour out the blood of the Absolution-Offering on the Altar of GOD, your God; then you can go ahead and eat the meat.
Deut.12.27
Present your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God, both the meat and the blood. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.
Deut.12.27
And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the meat.
Deut.12.27
You must offer the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.
Deut.12.28
Observe and hear 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 sight of the LORD thy God.
Deut.12.28
Be vigilant, listen obediently to these words that I command you so that you'll have a good life, you and your children, for a long, long time, doing what is good and right in the eyes of GOD, your God.
Deut.12.28
Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
Deut.12.28
Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
Deut.12.28
Be careful to obey all my commands so that all will go well with you and your children, because you will be doing what pleases the LORD your God.
Deut.12.29
When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
Deut.12.29
When GOD, your God, cuts off the nations whose land you are invading, shoves them out of your way so that you displace them and settle in their land,
Deut.12.29
The LORD your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land,
Deut.12.29
"When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land,
Deut.12.29
"When the LORD your God destroys the nations and you drive them out and occupy their land,
Deut.12.30
Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deut.12.30
be careful that you don't get curious about them after they've been destroyed before you. Don't get fascinated with their gods, thinking, "I wonder what it was like for them, worshiping their gods. I'd like to try that myself."
Deut.12.30
and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same."
Deut.12.30
take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, "How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.'
Deut.12.30
do not be trapped into following their example in worshiping their gods. Do not say, `How do these nations worship their gods? I want to follow their example.'
Deut.12.31
Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deut.12.31
Don't do this to GOD, your God. They commit every imaginable abomination with their gods. GOD hates it all with a passion. Why, they even set their children on fire as offerings to their gods!
Deut.12.31
You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
Deut.12.31
You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
Deut.12.31
You must not do this to the LORD your God. These nations have committed many detestable acts that the LORD hates, all in the name of their gods. They have even burned their sons and daughters as sacrifices to their gods.
Deut.12.32
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deut.12.32
Diligently do everything I command you, the way I command you: don't add to it; don't subtract from it. [JC]
Deut.12.32
See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.
Deut.12.32
"Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.
Deut.12.32
Carefully obey all the commands I give you. Do not add to them or subtract from them.
