Deuteronomy 12:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Deut 12:18 : 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.
  • Lev 23:40 : 40 On the first day, take the fruit of fair trees, branches of palm-trees, and branches of thick trees and trees from the riverside, and be glad before the Lord for seven days.
  • Deut 14:26 : 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 12:12 : 12 And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.
  • Deut 14:23 : 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.
  • Deut 26:11 : 11 And you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who is with you, will take part in your joy.
  • Deut 27:7 : 7 And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God.
  • Deut 15:20 : 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.
  • Phil 4:4 : 4 Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.
  • Deut 16:11-15 : 11 Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name. 12 And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you will take care to keep all these laws. 13 You are to keep the feast of tents for seven days after you have got in all your grain and made your wine: 14 You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you. 15 Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.
  • Ps 128:1-2 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways. 2 You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.
  • Isa 23:18 : 18 And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.
  • Mal 2:13 : 13 And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.
  • Acts 2:46 : 46 And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 12:17-18
    2 verses
    86%

    17In 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;

    18But 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.

  • Deut 27:7
    85%

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

  • Deut 16:13-15
    3 verses
    82%

    13You are to keep the feast of tents for seven days after you have got in all your grain and made your wine:

    14You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.

    15Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.

  • Deut 12:11-15
    5 verses
    82%

    11Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;

    12And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.

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

    14But 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.

    15Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.

  • Deut 14:25-27
    3 verses
    82%

    25Then let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand, go to the place marked out by the Lord your God for himself;

    26And 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;

    27And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

  • Deut 26:11
    82%

    11And you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who is with you, will take part in your joy.

  • Deut 16:10-11
    2 verses
    81%

    10Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:

    11Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.

  • Deut 12:5-6
    2 verses
    80%

    5But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;

    6And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;

  • Deut 15:20
    79%

    20But 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 8:10
    78%

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

  • Deut 28:8
    78%

    8The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Num 18:31
    78%

    31It 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.

  • Deut 12:25-28
    4 verses
    77%

    25Do 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.

    26But 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:

    27Offering 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.

    28Take 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 16:7
    77%

    7It is to be cooked and taken as food in the place marked out by the Lord: and in the morning you are to go back to your tents.

  • Deut 30:9
    77%

    9And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:

  • Ps 128:2
    76%

    2You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

  • Deut 14:29
    76%

    29And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

  • Deut 14:23
    76%

    23And 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.

  • Deut 8:12
    75%

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

  • Deut 7:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

    14You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.

  • Deut 6:18
    74%

    18And 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 6:11
    74%

    11And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

  • Deut 28:47
    74%

    47Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;

  • Exod 12:25
    74%

    25And 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.

  • Num 29:12
    74%

    12And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days;

  • Deut 26:1
    74%

    1Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;

  • Deut 11:27
    74%

    27The blessing if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, which I give you this day:

  • Deut 12:21
    74%

    21If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.

  • Deut 28:11
    74%

    11And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

  • Mal 3:12
    74%

    12And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.

  • Exod 13:6
    73%

    6For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.

  • Deut 12:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

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

    9For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Eccl 9:7
    73%

    7Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

  • Deut 15:10
    73%

    10But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.