Deuteronomy 12:25
You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.
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Referenced Verses
- Exod 15:26 : 26 He said,“If you will diligently obey the LORD your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the LORD, am your healer.”
- Deut 4:40 : 40 Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.”
- 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 You must obey all I command you to do, follow my instructions, do what I approve, and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; I will give you Israel.
- Isa 3:10 : 10 Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done.
- Deut 13:18 : 18 Thus you must obey the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving you today and doing what is right before him.
- Deut 6:18 : 18 Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,
- Deut 12:28 : 28 Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
- Deut 5:16 : 16 Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.
- Isa 48:18-19 : 18 If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea. 19 Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence.
- Ezek 33:25 : 25 Therefore say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land?
- Ps 112:2 : 2 His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed.
- Eccl 2:26 : 26 For to the one who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, he gives the task of amassing wealth– only to give it to the one who pleases God. This task of the wicked is futile– like chasing the wind!
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- Deut 12:23-242 verses83%
23 However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!
24 You must not eat it! You must pour it out on the ground like water.
- Deut 12:26-283 verses81%
26 Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the LORD will choose.
27 You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.
28 Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
- Deut 6:17-182 verses79%
17 Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.
18 Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,
- Deut 12:16-194 verses77%
16 However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.
17 You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.
18 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.
19 Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.
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20 You and your household must eat them annually before the LORD your God in the place he chooses.
- Deut 12:7-82 verses77%
7 Both you and your families must feast there before the LORD your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.
8 You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone doing what seems best to him,
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3 You must not eat any forbidden thing.
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21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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4 You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.
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40 Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.”
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18 Thus you must obey the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving you today and doing what is right before him.
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19 The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Num 18:31-322 verses75%
31 And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.
32 And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”
- Deut 12:30-312 verses75%
30 After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say,“How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.”
31 You must not worship the LORD your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!
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26 “The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
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15 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;
- Lev 10:13-142 verses74%
13 You must eat it in a holy place because it is your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the gifts of the LORD, for this is what I have been commanded.
14 Also, the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering you must eat in a ceremonially clean place, you and your sons and daughters with you, for they have been given as your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the peace offering sacrifices of the Israelites.
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12 When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,
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9 Provision for Prophetism When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.
- Deut 12:13-142 verses74%
13 Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,
14 for you may do so only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribal areas– there you may do everything I am commanding you.
- Num 18:10-112 verses74%
10 You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.
11 “And this is yours: the raised offering of their gift, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual ordinance. Everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.
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10 You will eat your fill and then praise the LORD your God because of the good land he has given you.
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25 Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the LORD your God that enrage him,
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25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give to you, just as he said, you must observe this ceremony.
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26 Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and enjoy it.
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20 You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the LORD your God is giving you.
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11 When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,
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23 However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.
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6 Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;
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55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating(since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
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7 Also you must offer fellowship offerings and eat them there, rejoicing before the LORD your God.
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23 In the presence of the LORD your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always.
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46 It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.
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29 “Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.
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15 They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the LORD,
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18 so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.