Deuteronomy 12:14

New American Bible - revised edition

but offer them in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribal territories; there you shall do what I command you. Profane and Sacred Slaughter.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:27

If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, the hearts of this people will return to their master, Rehoboam, king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam, king of Judah.”

1 Kings 8:29

May your eyes be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, My name shall be there; listen to the prayer your servant makes toward this place.

2 Kings 18:22

Or do you people say to me, “It is in the Lord our God we trust!”? Is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, commanding Judah and Jerusalem, “Worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?’

1 Chronicles 22:1

Thus David said, “This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for burnt offerings for Israel.”

Psalm 5:7

you destroy those who speak falsely. A bloody and fraudulent man the Lord abhors.

Psalm 9:11

Those who know your name trust in you; you never forsake those who seek you, Lord.

Leviticus 17:3

Any Israelite who slaughters an ox or a sheep or a goat, whether in the camp or outside of it,

Leviticus 17:4

without first bringing it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord in front of the Lord’s tabernacle, shall be judged guilty of bloodshed —that individual has shed blood, and shall be cut off from the people.

2 Corinthians 5:19

namely, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then to the place which the Lord, your God, chooses as the dwelling place for his name you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and personal contributions, and every special offering you have vowed to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:13

Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings in any place you like,

Deuteronomy 12:15

However, in any of your communities you may slaughter and eat meat freely, according to the blessing that the Lord, your God, has given you; the unclean as well as the clean may eat it, as they do the gazelle or the deer.

Deuteronomy 12:18

These you must eat in the presence of the Lord, your God, in the place that the Lord, your God, chooses, along with your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite within your gates; and there, in the presence of the Lord, you shall rejoice in all your undertakings.

Deuteronomy 12:5

Instead, you shall seek out the place which the Lord, your God, chooses out of all your tribes and designates as his dwelling to put his name there. There you shall go,

Deuteronomy 14:23

then in the place which the Lord, your God, chooses as the dwelling place of his name you shall eat in his presence the tithe of your grain, wine and oil, as well as the firstlings of your herd and flock, that you may learn always to fear the Lord, your God.

Deuteronomy 15:20

In the presence of the Lord, your God, you shall eat them year after year, you and your household, in the place that the Lord will choose.

Deuteronomy 16:2

You shall offer the Passover sacrifice from your flock and your herd to the Lord, your God, in the place the Lord will choose as the dwelling place of his name.

Deuteronomy 17:8

If there is a case for judgment which proves too baffling for you to decide, in a matter of bloodshed or of law or of injury, matters of dispute within your gates, you shall then go up to the place which the Lord, your God, will choose,

Deuteronomy 18:6

When a Levite goes from one of your communities anywhere in Israel in which he has been residing, to visit, as his heart may desire, the place which the Lord will choose,

Deuteronomy 31:11

when all Israel goes to appear before the Lord, your God, in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law aloud in the presence of all Israel.

Hebrews 13:15

Through him [then] let us continually offer God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.

Joshua 22:29

Far be it from us to rebel against the Lord or to turn now from following the Lord by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice in addition to the altar of the Lord, our God, which stands before his tabernacle.”

Joshua 9:27

on that day he made them, as they still are, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the community and for the altar of the Lord, in the place the Lord would choose.