Deuteronomy 12:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

If 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.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, you may slaughter from your herds and flocks that the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and eat within your gates as much as you desire.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have command thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    If the place{H4725} which Jehovah{H3068} thy God{H430} shall choose,{H977} to put{H7760} his name{H8034} there, be too far{H7368} from thee, then thou shalt kill{H2076} of thy herd{H1241} and of thy flock,{H6629} which Jehovah{H3068} hath given{H5414} thee, as I have commanded{H6680} thee; and thou mayest eat{H398} within thy gates,{H8179} after{H185} all the desire of thy soul.{H5315}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    If the place{H4725} which the LORD{H3068} thy God{H430} hath chosen{H977}{(H8799)} to put{H7760}{(H8800)} his name{H8034} there be too far{H7368}{(H8799)} from thee, then thou shalt kill{H2076}{(H8804)} of thy herd{H1241} and of thy flock{H6629}, which the LORD{H3068} hath given{H5414}{(H8804)} thee, as I have commanded{H6680}{(H8765)} thee, and thou shalt eat{H398}{(H8804)} in thy gates{H8179} whatsoever thy soul{H5315} lusteth after{H185}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Yf the place which the Lorde thi God hath chosen to put his name there be to ferre from the, then thou mayst kylle of thi oxen and of thi shepe which the Lorde hath geuen the as I haue commaunded the and thou mayst eate in thine awne citie what soeuer thi soule lusteth.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But yf the place that the LORDE thy God hath chosen (to let his name be there) be farre from the, then kyll of yi oxen and of thy shepe, which the LORDE hath geuen the, as he hath commaunded the, and eate it within thy gates acordinge to all ye desyre of thy soule.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his Name there, be farre from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy bullockes, and of thy sheepe which the Lorde hath giuen thee, as I haue commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates, whatsoeuer thine heart desireth.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    If the place whiche the Lorde thy God hath chosen to put his name there, be to farre from thee, then thou shalt kil of thy oxen and of thy sheepe which the Lord gath geuen thee, as I haue commaunded thee, and thou shalt eate in thyne owne citie whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `When the place is far from thee which Jehovah thy God doth choose to put His name there, then thou hast sacrificed of thy herd and of thy flock which Jehovah hath given to thee, as I have commanded thee, and hast eaten within thy gates, of all the desire of thy soul;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    If the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Jehovah hath given thee, as I have commanded thee; and thou mayest eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    If the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Jehovah hath given thee, as I have commanded thee; and thou mayest eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish.

Referenced Verses

  • 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 : 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:
  • Deut 12:15 : 15 Yet 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 14:23-24 : 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. 24 And 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:
  • Deut 16:6 : 6 But at the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His name in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 And 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.
  • Deut 26:2 : 2 That 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.
  • 1 Kgs 14:21 : 21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
  • 2 Chr 12:13 : 13 So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
  • Ezra 6:12 : 12 And may the God who has caused His name to dwell there destroy all kings and people who attempt to alter or destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I, Darius, have made a decree; let it be done swiftly.
  • Exod 20:24 : 24 An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name, I will come to you, and I will bless you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • 86%

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

    14 But 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.

    15 Yet 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.

    16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

    17 You 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:

    18 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.

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

    20 When 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.

  • 78%

    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.

    21 And if there is any blemish in it, such as if it is lame, or blind, or has any bad blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

    22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.

  • 77%

    22 Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them.

    23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the meat.

  • 77%

    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.

    24 And 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:

    25 Then 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.

    26 And 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,

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

  • 2 Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place His name there.

  • Deut 16:5-7
    3 verses
    76%

    5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which the LORD your God gives you:

    6 But at the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His name in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.

    7 And 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.

  • 74%

    25 You 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.

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

    27 And 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.

  • Deut 12:5-7
    3 verses
    74%

    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:

    6 And 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:

    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.

  • 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:

  • 73%

    20 But of all clean birds you may eat.

    21 You 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.

  • 21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.

  • 7 And for your cattle, and for the beasts that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

  • Lev 11:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which you shall eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

    3 Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you shall eat.

  • Lev 7:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24 And the fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of an animal that is torn by beasts, may be used for any other purpose: but you shall not eat of it.

    25 For whoever eats the fat of the animal of which men offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.

  • 6 And every animal that parts the hoof, and has a split hoof, and chews the cud among the animals, that you shall eat.

  • 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

  • 71%

    18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

    19 And you shall eat fat till you are full, and drink blood till you are drunk, at my sacrificial feast which I have prepared for you.

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

  • 3 Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

  • 6 And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD shall choose;

  • 4 These are the animals which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

  • 8 What dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself with it: I am the LORD.

  • 4 And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the people; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

  • 11 And 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.

  • 29 And 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.

  • 31 And you shall be holy men to me; neither shall you eat any meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.