Deuteronomy 12:14 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁴ The Lord will choose his special place among your family groups. Offer your burnt offerings and do all the other things I told you only in that place.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all I command you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ but in the place which Jehovah shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ No, only at the location the LORD selects from one of your tribal areas—that’s where you must offer up your entirely burned offerings and that’s where you must perform everything I’m telling you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Instead, you shall offer sacrifices in the place which the Lord will choose within one of your tribes, and you shall do whatsoever I instruct you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer sacrifices, and shalt do all that I command thee.

Deuteronomy 12:14 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 8:29

In the past you said, ‘I will be honored there.’ So please watch this temple night and day. Please listen to the prayer that I pray to you at this temple.

2 Kings 18:22

Maybe you will say, “We trust the Lord our God.” But I know that Hezekiah took away the high places [227] and altars [228] where people worshiped the Lord. And Hezekiah told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship only in front of the altar here in Jerusalem.”

1 Chronicles 22:1

David said, “The temple {\cf2\super [231]} of the Lord God and the altar for burning offerings for the people of Israel will be built here.”

Psalm 5:7

But, Lord, by your great mercy,\par I will come to your temple. {\cf2\super [26]} \par I will bow toward your holy temple\par with fear and respect for you, Lord.\par

Psalm 9:11

You people living on Zion,\par sing praises to the Lord. {\cf2\super [49]} \par Tell other nations about the great things\par the Lord did.\par

Leviticus 17:3

An Israelite person might kill a bull, or a lamb, or a goat in the camp or outside the camp.

Leviticus 17:4

That person must bring that animal to the entrance of the Meeting Tent. [305] He must give {a part of} that animal as a gift to the Lord. That person has spilled blood (killed), so he must take his gift to the Lord’s Holy Tent. [306] If he does not take {part of the animal as a gift to the Lord}, then that person must be separated from his people!

Deuteronomy 12:11

Then the Lord will choose a place to be his special house. The Lord will put his name there. And you must bring all the things I command you to that place. Bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, one tenth of your crops and animals, [75] your special gifts, any gifts you promised to the Lord, and the first animals born in your herd and flock.

Deuteronomy 12:13

Be sure you don’t offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see.

Deuteronomy 12:15

“Wherever you live you may kill and eat any good animals, like gazelles and deer. You may eat as much of the meat as you want, as much as the Lord your God gives to you. Any person may eat this meat—people who are clean [77] and people who are unclean. [78]

Deuteronomy 12:18

You must eat those offerings only at the place where the Lord your God will be together with you—the special place that the Lord your God will choose. You must go there and eat together with your sons, your daughters, all your servants, and the Levites [79] living in your towns. Enjoy yourselves there with the Lord your God. Enjoy the things you have worked for.

Deuteronomy 12:5

The Lord your God will choose a special place among your family groups. The Lord will put his name there. That will be his special house. You must go to that place to worship him.

Deuteronomy 14:23

Then you must go to the place the Lord chooses to be his special house. You will go there to be with the Lord your God. At that place you will eat the tenth of your crops—one tenth of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the first animals born in your herds and flocks. In this way, you will always remember to respect the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 15:20

Every year you must take those animals to the place the Lord your God will choose. There with the Lord, you and your family will eat those animals.

Deuteronomy 16:2

You must go to the place the Lord will choose to be his special house. There you must offer the Passover sacrifice to honor the Lord. You must offer the cows and goats.

Deuteronomy 17:8

“There might be some problems that are too hard for your courts to judge. It might be a murder case or an argument between two people. Or it might be a fight in which someone was hurt. When these cases are argued in your towns, your judges there might not be able to decide what is right. Then you must go to the special place that the Lord your God will choose.

Deuteronomy 18:6

“{Every Levite [116] man has a special time to work at the temple. But if he wants to work there some other time too, then he may work anytime he wants.} Any Levite living in any town anywhere in Israel may leave his home and come to the Lord’s special place. He may do this any time he wants.

Deuteronomy 31:11

At that time, all the people of Israel must come to meet with the Lord your God at the special place he will choose. Then you must read the Teachings to the people so that they can hear them.

Hebrews 13:15

So through Jesus we should never stop offering our sacrifice to God. That sacrifice is our praise, coming from lips that speak his name.

Joshua 22:29

“Truly, we do not want to be against the Lord. We don’t want to stop following him now. We know that the only true altar is the one that is in front of the Holy Tent. That altar belongs to the Lord our God.”

Joshua 9:27

Joshua made the people of Gibeon become slaves of the people of Israel. They cut wood and carried water for the people of Israel and for the altar of the Lord—wherever the Lord chose it to be. Those people are still slaves today.