Deuteronomy 15:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Deut 12:5-7 : 5 But 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; 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 : 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;
  • 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.

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  • Deut 12:17-18
    2 verses
    83%

    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 16:5-7
    3 verses
    82%

    5The Passover offering is not to be put to death in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you:

    6But in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place of his name, there you are to put the Passover to death in the evening, at sundown, at that time of the year when you came out of Egypt.

    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 16:2
    81%

    2The Passover offering, from your flock or your herd, is to be given to the Lord your God in the place marked out by him as the resting-place of his name.

  • Deut 12:5-7
    3 verses
    79%

    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;

    7There 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 14:21-26
    6 verses
    79%

    21You 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.

    22Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

    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.

    24And 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;

    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;

  • Deut 15:21
    79%

    21But if it has any mark on it, if it is blind or has damaged legs, or if there is anything wrong with it, it may not be offered to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 12:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    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 12:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

    20When 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.

    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 15:19
    77%

    19All the first males to come to birth in your herd and your flock are to be holy to the Lord your God: the first birth of your ox is not to be used for work, the wool of your first lamb is not to be cut.

  • Num 18:31
    77%

    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 12:25-27
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    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.

  • Deut 16:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

    16Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in their hands;

  • Num 18:10
    77%

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

  • Deut 27:7
    76%

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

  • Lev 19:25
    76%

    25But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 10:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13It 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.

    14And 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.

  • Exod 12:5
    75%

    5Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:

  • Deut 26:2
    75%

    2You 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.

  • Deut 12:11
    75%

    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;

  • Num 18:13
    75%

    13The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food.

  • Deut 16:11
    74%

    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.

  • Exod 12:46
    74%

    46It 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.

  • Num 15:3
    74%

    3And 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:

  • Exod 13:10
    74%

    10So let this order be kept, at the right time, from year to year.

  • Exod 23:14
    74%

    14Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.

  • Exod 23:19
    74%

    19The 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 28:19
    73%

    19And you are to give an offering made by fire, a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

  • Num 18:18
    73%

    18Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours.

  • Exod 23:16
    73%

    16And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.

  • Lev 19:5
    73%

    5And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord.

  • Num 15:19
    73%

    19Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord.

  • Lev 25:7
    73%

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

  • Exod 29:31
    73%

    31Then take the sheep of the wave offering and let its flesh be cooked in water in a holy place.

  • Lev 22:30
    73%

    30Let it be used for food on the same day; do not keep any part of it till the morning: I am the Lord.