Thematic Bible
Deuteronomy 12:1 (show verse)
“These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth.
Deuteronomy 12:2 (show verse)
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Deuteronomy 12:3 (show verse)
Deuteronomy 12:4 (show verse)
You shall not act like this toward the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 12:5 (show verse)
Deuteronomy 12:6 (show verse)
There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.
Deuteronomy 12:7 (show verse)
There also you and your households shall eat before the Lord your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 12:8 (show verse)
“You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes;
Deuteronomy 12:9 (show verse)
for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 12:10 (show verse)
When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security,
Deuteronomy 12:11 (show verse)
Deuteronomy 12:12 (show verse)
And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 12:13 (show verse)
“Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see,
Deuteronomy 12:14 (show verse)
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.
Deuteronomy 12:15 (show verse)
“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.
Deuteronomy 12:16 (show verse)
Deuteronomy 12:17 (show verse)
Deuteronomy 12:18 (show verse)
But you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all your undertakings.
Deuteronomy 12:19 (show verse)
Deuteronomy 12:20 (show verse)
“When the Lord your God extends your border as He has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you desire to eat meat, then you may eat meat, whatever you desire.
Deuteronomy 12:21 (show verse)
If the place which the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates whatever you desire.
Deuteronomy 12:22 (show verse)
Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
Deuteronomy 12:23 (show verse)
Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Deuteronomy 12:24 (show verse)
You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 12:25 (show verse)
You shall not eat it, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 12:26 (show verse)
Deuteronomy 12:27 (show verse)
And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh 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 flesh.
Deuteronomy 12:28 (show verse)
“Be careful to listen to all these words which I command you, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 12:29 (show verse)
“When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
Deuteronomy 12:30 (show verse)
beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?’
Deuteronomy 12:31 (show verse)
Deuteronomy 12:32 (show verse)
“Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.