Deuteronomy 12:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 15:26 : 26 And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.
  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.
  • 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.
  • Isa 3:10 : 10 Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
  • Deut 13:18 : 18 So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
  • Deut 6:18 : 18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,
  • Deut 12:28 : 28 Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • Isa 48:18-19 : 18 If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: 19 Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.
  • Ezek 33:25 : 25 For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?
  • Ps 112:2 : 2 His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 12:23-24
    2 verses
    83%

    23 But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

    24 Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Deut 12:26-28
    3 verses
    81%

    26 But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord:

    27 Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.

    28 Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • Deut 6:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Deut 12:16-19
    4 verses
    77%

    16 But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

    17 In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;

    18 But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

    19 See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.

  • Deut 15:20
    77%

    20 But year by year you and all your house are to take a meal of it before the Lord, in the place of his selection.

  • Deut 12:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

    8 You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:

  • Deut 14:3
    76%

    3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Deut 14:21
    76%

    21 You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

  • Deut 12:4
    75%

    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 4:40
    75%

    40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

  • Deut 13:18
    75%

    18 So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • Exod 23:19
    75%

    19 The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

  • Num 18:31-32
    2 verses
    75%

    31 It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.

    32 And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death may not overtake you.

  • Deut 12:30-31
    2 verses
    75%

    30 After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

    31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Exod 34:26
    75%

    26 Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk

  • Exod 34:15
    74%

    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • Lev 10:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 It is to be for your food in a holy place, because it is your right and your sons' right, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for so am I ordered.

    14 And the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, you are to take as your food in a clean place; you and your sons and your daughters with you: for they are given to you as your right and your sons' right, from the peace-offerings of the children of Israel.

  • Deut 8:12
    74%

    12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

  • Deut 18:9
    74%

    9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

  • Deut 12:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:

    14 But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to do.

  • Num 18:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you.

    11 And this is yours: the lifted offering which they give and all the wave offerings of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as your right for ever: everyone in your house who is clean may have them for food.

  • Deut 8:10
    74%

    10 And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

  • Deut 4:25
    74%

    25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

  • Exod 12:25
    74%

    25 And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship.

  • Deut 14:26
    74%

    26 And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

  • Deut 16:20
    73%

    20 Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Exod 13:11
    73%

    11 And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • Deut 15:23
    73%

    23 Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Prov 23:6
    73%

    6 Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

  • Deut 28:55
    73%

    55 And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

  • Deut 27:7
    73%

    7 And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God.

  • Deut 14:23
    73%

    23 And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.

  • Exod 12:46
    72%

    46 It is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh is to be taken out of the house, and no bone of it may be broken.

  • Exod 22:29
    72%

    29 Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.

  • Lev 22:15
    72%

    15 And they may not make common the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord,

  • Deut 20:18
    72%

    18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.