Deuteronomy 12:26

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the LORD will choose.

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  • Num 5:9-9 : 9 Every offering of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his. 10 Every man’s holy things will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”
  • Num 18:19 : 19 All the raised offerings of the holy things that the Israelites offer to the LORD, I have given to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual ordinance. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your descendants with you.”
  • Deut 12:6 : 6 And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
  • Deut 12:11 : 11 Then you must come to the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you– your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.
  • Deut 12:17-18 : 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.
  • Deut 12:21 : 21 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.
  • 1 Sam 1:21-24 : 21 Then the man Elkanah and all his family went up to make the yearly sacrifice to the LORD and to keep his vow. 22 But Hannah did not go up with them, because she had told her husband,“Not until the boy is weaned. Then I will bring him so that he may appear before the LORD. And he will remain there from then on.” 23 Then her husband Elkanah said to her,“Do what you think best. Stay until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD fulfill his promise.” So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him. 24 Then she took him up with her as soon as she had weaned him, along with three bulls, an ephah of flour, and a container of wine. She came to the LORD’s house at Shiloh, and the boy was with them.
  • Ps 66:13-15 : 13 I will enter your temple with burnt sacrifices; I will fulfill the vows I made to you, 14 which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble. 15 I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices, along with the smell of sacrificial rams. I will offer cattle and goats.(Selah)
  • Gen 28:20 : 20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying,“If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear,
  • Lev 22:18-33 : 18 “Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them,‘When any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners in Israel presents his offering for any of the votive or freewill offerings which they present to the LORD as a burnt offering, 19 if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats. 20 You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit. 21 If a man presents a peace offering sacrifice to the LORD for a special votive offering or for a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, it must be flawless to be acceptable; it must have no flaw. 22 “‘You must not present to the LORD something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. You must not give any of these as a gift on the altar to the LORD. 23 As for an ox or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering. 24 You must not present to the LORD something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; you must not do this in your land. 25 Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’” 26 The LORD spoke to Moses: 27 “When an ox, lamb, or goat is born, it must be under the care of its mother seven days, but from the eighth day onward it will be acceptable as an offering gift to the LORD. 28 You must not slaughter an ox or a sheep and its young on the same day. 29 When you sacrifice a thanksgiving offering to the LORD, you must sacrifice it so that it is acceptable for your benefit. 30 On that very day it must be eaten; you must not leave any part of it over until morning. I am the LORD. 31 “You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the LORD. 32 You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the LORD who sanctifies you, 33 the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD.

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  • Deut 12:11
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    11Then you must come to the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you– your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.

  • Deut 12:4-7
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    4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.

    5But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

    6And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

    7Both 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.

  • Deut 12:13-14
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    13Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,

    14for 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.

  • Deut 14:23-26
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    23In 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.

    24When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

    25you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the LORD your God chooses for himself.

    26Then 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.

  • Deut 12:27-28
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    27You 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.

    28Pay 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 12:25
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    25You 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.

  • Deut 26:1-4
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    1Presentation of the First Fruits When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

    2you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.

    3You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him,“I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD promised to our ancestors to give us.”

    4The priest will then take the basket from you and set it before the altar of the LORD your God.

  • Deut 12:17-19
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    17You 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.

    18Only 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.

    19Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.

  • Deut 15:20
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    20You and your household must eat them annually before the LORD your God in the place he chooses.

  • Deut 16:2
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    2You must sacrifice the Passover animal(from the flock or the herd) to the LORD your God in the place where he chooses to locate his name.

  • Deut 16:6-7
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    6but you must sacrifice it in the evening in the place where he chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

    7You must cook and eat it in the place the LORD your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.

  • Deut 27:6-7
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    6You must build the altar of the LORD your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

    7Also you must offer fellowship offerings and eat them there, rejoicing before the LORD your God.

  • Deut 26:16-19
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    16Narrative Interlude Today the LORD your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.

    17Today you have declared the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

    18And today the LORD has declared you to be his special people(as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

    19Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.

  • Deut 29:12
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    12so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the LORD your God is making with you today.

  • Deut 23:23
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    23Whatever you vow, you must be careful to do what you have promised, such as what you have vowed to the LORD your God as a freewill offering.

  • Num 29:39
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    39“‘These things you must present to the LORD at your appointed times, in addition to your vows and your freewill offerings, as your burnt offerings, your grain offerings, your drink offerings, and your peace offerings.’”

  • Deut 12:21
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    21If 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.

  • Deut 26:13-14
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    13Then you shall say before the LORD your God,“I have removed the sacred offering from my house and given it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows just as you have commanded me. I have not violated or forgotten your commandments.

    14I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; I have obeyed you and have done everything you have commanded me.

  • Deut 14:2
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    2For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

  • Lev 22:26
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    26The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 18:14
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    14“Everything devoted in Israel will be yours.

  • Lev 22:23
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    23As for an ox or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering.

  • Lev 23:38
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    38besides the Sabbaths of the LORD and all your gifts, votive offerings, and freewill offerings which you must give to the LORD.

  • Deut 6:17-18
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    17Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.

    18Do 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,

  • Exod 12:25
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    25When you enter the land that the LORD will give to you, just as he said, you must observe this ceremony.

  • Deut 17:10
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    10You must then do as they have determined at that place the LORD chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

  • Exod 13:11
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    11When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • Deut 7:6
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    6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

  • Deut 28:9
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    9The LORD will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.

  • Num 15:3
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    3and you make an offering by fire to the LORD from the herd or from the flock(whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the LORD,