Deuteronomy 12:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hands to.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Instead, you are to eat these in the presence of the Lord your God, at the place the Lord your God will choose—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you undertake.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    but thou shalt eat them before Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    but thou must eate them before the Lorde thi God, in the place which the Lorde thi God hath chosen: both thou thi sonne and thi doughter, thi seruaunte and thy mayde ad the leuite that is within thi gates: ad thou shalt reioyse before the Lorde thi God, in al that thou puttest thine hande to.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    but before the LORDE thy God shalt thou eate them, in the place which the LORDE thy God choseth, thou & thy sonne, and thy doughter, thy seruaunt, thy mayde, and the Leuite that is within yi gates, & thou shalt reioyse before ye LORDE thy God, ouer all yt thou puttest thine hande vnto.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    But thou shalt eate it before the Lorde thy God, in the place which the Lorde thy God shall chuse, thou, & thy sonne, & thy daughter, & thy seruat, and thy maid, and the Leuite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt reioyce before the Lord thy God, in all that thou puttest thine hand to.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    But thou must eate them before the Lorde thy God, in the place whiche the Lorde thy God hath chosen, thou and thy sonne, & thy daughter, thy seruaunt, and thy mayde, and the Lenite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt reioyce before the Lorde thy God, in all that thou puttest thyne hande to.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that [is] within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    but before Jehovah thy God thou dost eat it, in the place which Jehovah thy God doth fix on, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite who `is' within thy gates, and thou hast rejoiced before Jehovah thy God in every putting forth of thy hand;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    but thou shalt eat them before Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    but thou shalt eat them before Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Only in the presence of the LORD your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the LORD your God in all the output of your labor.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 12:7 : 7 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all to which you put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
  • Deut 14:23 : 23 And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which He shall choose to place His name there, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
  • Deut 12:5 : 5 But you shall seek the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, to His habitation you shall come:
  • Deut 12:11-12 : 11 Then there will be a place which the LORD your God will choose to make His name dwell there; there you shall bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD: 12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion or inheritance with you.
  • Deut 12:19 : 19 Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on the earth.
  • Deut 15:20 : 20 You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.
  • Ps 32:11 : 11 Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous; shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.
  • Ps 68:3 : 3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yes, let them exceedingly rejoice.
  • Prov 3:17 : 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
  • Isa 12:3 : 3 Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation.
  • Acts 2:46 : 46 So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,
  • Acts 16:34 : 34 When he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household.
  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • Phil 3:1-3 : 1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not bothersome for me, but for you it is safe. 2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilators. 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 87%

    10And you shall keep the feast of weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give to the LORD your God, according to how the LORD your God has blessed you:

    11And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place His name there.

    12And you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.

  • 87%

    11Then there will be a place which the LORD your God will choose to make His name dwell there; there you shall bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD:

    12And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion or inheritance with you.

    13Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see:

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

    15Yet you may slaughter and eat flesh inside all your gates, whatever your soul desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

  • Deut 12:6-7
    2 verses
    86%

    6And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contributions of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks:

    7And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all to which you put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

  • 85%

    14And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates.

    15Seven days you shall keep a solemn feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice.

    16Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD your God in the place which He shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

  • 20You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.

  • 17You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your voluntary offerings, or heave offering of your hand:

  • 81%

    11And you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

    12When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled;

  • 80%

    21You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

    22You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year.

    23And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which He shall choose to place His name there, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

    24And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it; or if the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God shall choose to set His name there, when the LORD your God has blessed you:

    25Then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.

    26And you shall spend the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul desires: and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household,

    27And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

    28At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:

    29And the Levite, (because he has no part nor inheritance with you,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

  • 78%

    19Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on the earth.

    20When the LORD your God enlarges your border, as He has promised you, and you say, I want to eat meat, because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, whatever your soul desires.

    21If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat in your gates whatever your soul desires.

  • 77%

    25You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

    26Only the holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD shall choose:

    27And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God, and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.

  • 7And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God shall choose: and you shall return in the morning, and go to your tents.

  • 31And you shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • 7And you shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice before the LORD your God.

  • Num 18:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10In the most holy place you shall eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy to you.

    11And this is yours; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, by a statute forever: everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

  • 14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

  • Lev 10:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13You shall eat it in a holy place because it is your due and your sons' due of the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire, for so I am commanded.

    14The breast of the wave offering and the shoulder of the heave offering you shall eat in a clean place, you, your sons, and your daughters with you, for they are your due and your sons' due, given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.

  • 13And whatever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring to the LORD, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

  • 10When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.

  • 8They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his patrimony.

  • Deut 26:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell in it;

    2That you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you, and shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place his name there.

  • 6And the sabbath of the land shall provide food for you; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for the stranger who dwells with you,

  • Deut 18:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

    5For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons forever.

  • 44But every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.

  • 11When all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.