Deuteronomy 14:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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;

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  • Deut 12:7 : 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.
  • Eccl 9:7 : 7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.
  • Matt 21:12 : 12 And Jesus went into the Temple and sent out all who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those trading in doves.
  • Mark 11:15 : 15 And they came to Jerusalem; and he went into the Temple, and sent out those who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who were offering doves for money;
  • John 2:14-16 : 14 And there in the Temple he saw men trading in oxen and sheep and doves, and he saw the changers of money in their seats: 15 And he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers and overturning their tables; 16 And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.
  • 1 Cor 6:12-13 : 12 I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any. 13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
  • 1 Cor 10:6 : 6 Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.
  • 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 12:15 : 15 Only 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 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.
  • Deut 12:20-21 : 20 When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for. 21 If 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 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.
  • Ezra 7:15-17 : 15 And to take with you the silver and gold freely offered by the king and his wise men to the God of Israel, whose Temple is in Jerusalem, 16 As well as all the silver and gold which you get from the land of Babylon, together with the offering of the people and of the priests, freely given for the house of their God, which is in Jerusalem: 17 So with this money get with care oxen, sheep, and lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, to be offered on the altar of the house of your God, which is in Jerusalem.
  • Ezra 7:22 : 22 Up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred measures of grain, a hundred measures of wine, and a hundred measures of oil, and salt without measure.
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

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  • Deut 14:22-25
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    22 Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

    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.

    24 And if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place marked out by the Lord your God for his name, when he has given you his blessing, because it is far away from you;

    25 Then 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;

  • Deut 12:6-7
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    6 And 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;

    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.

  • Deut 12:17-18
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    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.

  • Deut 14:27
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    27 And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

  • Deut 26:11
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    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.

  • Ezra 7:17-18
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    17 So with this money get with care oxen, sheep, and lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, to be offered on the altar of the house of your God, which is in Jerusalem.

    18 And whatever seems right to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, that do, as may be pleasing to your God.

  • Deut 15:14
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    14 But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.

  • Deut 27:7
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    7 And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God.

  • Deut 16:13-15
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    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.

  • Deut 15:20
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    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 12:20-21
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    20 When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

    21 If 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 16:10-11
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    10 Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:

    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.

  • Deut 12:25-27
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    25 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.

    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.

  • Deut 12:14-15
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    74%

    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.

    15 Only 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 2:6
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    6 You may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for drinking.

  • Deut 12:12
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    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.

  • Num 29:39
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    39 These are the offerings which you are to give to the Lord at your regular feasts, in addition to the offerings for an oath, and the free offerings you give, for your burned offerings and your drink offerings and your peace-offerings.

  • Deut 16:7
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    7 It 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 16:17
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    17 Every man is to give as he is able, in the measure of the blessing which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Deut 14:29
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    29 And 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.

  • Num 18:30-31
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    30 Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed.

    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.

  • Lev 25:7
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    7 And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

  • Deut 32:14
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    14 Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.

  • Deut 6:11
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    11 And 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 15:10
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    10 But 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.

  • Eccl 9:7
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    7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

  • Luke 12:19
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    19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

  • Deut 18:4
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    4 And in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.

  • Deut 26:1-2
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    1 Now 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;

    2 You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name.

  • Num 15:3
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    3 And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an offering for a sweet smell to the Lord, from the herd or the flock:

  • Deut 8:10
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    10 And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

  • Deut 30:9
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    9 And 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:

  • Prov 3:10
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    10 So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.

  • Deut 8:12-13
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    12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

    13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;