Exodus 20:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.

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  • Deut 12:5 : 5 But 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.
  • 2 Chr 6:6 : 6 But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place to live, and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 You shall rejoice before him– you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you– in the place where the LORD chooses to locate his name.
  • Deut 26:2 : 2 you 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.
  • 1 Kgs 8:29 : 29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.
  • 1 Kgs 8:43 : 43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.
  • 1 Kgs 9:3 : 3 The LORD said to him,“I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
  • Jer 7:10-12 : 10 Then you come and stand in my presence in this temple I have claimed as my own and say,“We are safe!” You think you are so safe that you go on doing all those hateful sins! 11 Do you think this temple I have claimed as my own is to be a hideout for robbers? You had better take note! I have seen for myself what you have done! says the LORD. 12 So, go to the place in Shiloh where I allowed myself to be worshiped in the early days. See what I did to it because of the wicked things my people Israel did.
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home. 14 He said,“This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.
  • 2 Chr 7:16 : 16 Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
  • 2 Chr 12:13 : 13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; he was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. Rehoboam’s mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.
  • Ezra 6:12 : 12 May God who makes his name to reside there overthrow any king or nation who reaches out to cause such change so as to destroy this temple of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given orders. Let them be carried out with precision!”
  • Neh 1:9 : 9 But if you repent and obey my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’
  • Ps 74:7 : 7 They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground.
  • 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 12:21 : 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.
  • Deut 14:23 : 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.
  • Deut 16:5-6 : 5 You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you, 6 but 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.
  • Num 6:24-27 : 24 “The LORD bless you and protect you; 25 The LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; 26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.”’ 27 So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”
  • Deut 7:13 : 13 He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.
  • John 4:20-24 : 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus said to her,“Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. 23 But a time is coming– and now is here– when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers. 24 God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
  • Mal 1:11 : 11 For from the east to the west my name will be great among the nations. Incense and pure offerings will be offered in my name everywhere, for my name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Matt 18:20 : 20 For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.”
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
  • 2 Sam 6:12 : 12 King David was told,“The LORD has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.
  • Ps 134:3 : 3 May the LORD, the Creator of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion!
  • Lev 1:1-9 : 1 ¶ Introduction to the Sacrificial Regulations Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Meeting Tent: 2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When someone among you presents an offering to the LORD, you must present your offering from the domesticated animals, either from the herd or from the flock. 3 Burnt Offering Regulations: Animal from the Herd“‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd he must present it as a flawless male; he must present it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent for its acceptance before the LORD. 4 He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf. 5 Then the one presenting the offering must slaughter the bull before the LORD, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, must present the blood and splash the blood against the sides of the altar which is at the entrance of the Meeting Tent. 6 Next, the one presenting the offering must skin the burnt offering and cut it into parts, 7 and the sons of Aaron, the priest, must put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire. 8 Then the sons of Aaron, the priests, must arrange the parts with the head and the suet on the wood that is in the fire on the altar. 9 Finally, the one presenting the offering must wash its entrails and its legs in water and the priest must offer all of it up in smoke on the altar– it is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD. 10 Animal from the Flock“‘If his offering is from the flock for a burnt offering– from the sheep or the goats– he must present a flawless male, 11 and must slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, will splash its blood against the altar’s sides. 12 Next, the one presenting the offering must cut it into parts, with its head and its suet, and the priest must arrange them on the wood which is in the fire, on the altar. 13 Then the one presenting the offering must wash the entrails and the legs in water, and the priest must present all of it and offer it up in smoke on the altar– it is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD. 14 From the Birds“‘If his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering from the birds, he must present his offering from the turtledoves or from the young pigeons. 15 The priest must present it at the altar, pinch off its head and offer the head up in smoke on the altar, and its blood must be drained out against the side of the altar. 16 Then the priest must remove its entrails by cutting off its tail feathers, and throw them to the east side of the altar into the place of fatty ashes, 17 and tear it open by its wings without dividing it into two parts. Finally, the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar on the wood which is in the fire– it is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD.
  • Lev 3:1-9 : 1 Peace Offering Regulations: Animal from the Herd“‘Now if his offering is a peace offering sacrifice, if he presents an offering from the herd, he must present before the LORD a flawless male or a female. 2 He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, must splash the blood against the altar’s sides. 3 Then the one presenting the offering must present a gift to the LORD from the peace offering sacrifice: He must remove the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that surrounds the entrails, 4 the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys). 5 Then the sons of Aaron must offer it up in smoke on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the wood in the fire as a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD. 6 Animal from the Flock“‘If his offering for a peace offering sacrifice to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a flawless male or female. 7 If he presents a sheep as his offering, he must present it before the LORD. 8 He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it before the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron must splash its blood against the altar’s sides. 9 Then he must present a gift to the LORD from the peace offering sacrifice: He must remove all the fatty tail up to the end of the spine, the fat covering the entrails, and all the fat on the entrails, 10 the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys). 11 Then the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar as a food gift to the LORD. 12 “‘If his offering is a goat he must present it before the LORD, 13 lay his hand on its head, and slaughter it before the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron must splash its blood against the altar’s sides. 14 Then he must present from it his offering as a gift to the LORD: the fat which covers the entrails and all the fat on the entrails, 15 the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys). 16 Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma– all the fat belongs to the LORD. 17 This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live: You must never eat any fat or any blood.’”
  • Ps 76:2 : 2 He lives in Salem; he dwells in Zion.
  • Ps 78:68 : 68 He chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loves.
  • Ps 128:5 : 5 May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you might see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life,
  • 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 So I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Exod 20:25
    78%

    25If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.

  • Deut 27:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5Then you must build an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones– do not use an iron tool on them.

    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.

  • Exod 29:42-43
    2 verses
    75%

    42“This will be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.

    43There I will meet with the Israelites, and it will be set apart as holy by my glory.

  • Deut 12:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    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 12:11
    74%

    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 12:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Gen 28:22
    73%

    22Then this stone that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely give you back a tenth of everything you give me.”

  • Exod 20:23
    73%

    23You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.

  • Exod 25:22
    72%

    22I will meet with you there, and from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.

  • Ezek 20:40
    72%

    40For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.

  • Exod 25:8
    72%

    8Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.

  • Ezek 20:28
    71%

    28I brought them to the land which I swore to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.

  • Deut 14:24
    71%

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

  • Deut 12:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the LORD will choose.

    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.

  • Exod 30:6
    71%

    6“You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony(before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.

  • Josh 22:23
    71%

    23If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the LORD by making burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering tokens of peace on it, the LORD himself will punish us.

  • Judg 6:26
    70%

    26Then build an altar for the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.”

  • Gen 28:13
    70%

    13and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.

  • Exod 34:2
    70%

    2Be prepared in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself for me there on the top of the mountain.

  • Exod 33:21
    70%

    21The LORD said,“Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock.

  • Gen 13:4
    70%

    4This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    70%

    26David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. He called out to the LORD, and the LORD responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar.

  • Exod 24:5
    70%

    5He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the LORD.

  • Gen 13:18
    70%

    18So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the LORD there.

  • Gen 12:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7The LORD appeared to Abram and said,“To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

    8Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshiped the LORD.

  • Num 15:3
    70%

    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,

  • Exod 40:6
    70%

    6You are to put the altar for the burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

  • Gen 26:3
    70%

    3Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.

  • Josh 22:26
    70%

    26So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,

  • Exod 29:37
    69%

    37For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.

  • Lev 2:8
    69%

    8“‘You must bring the grain offering that must be made from these to the LORD. Present it to the priest, and he will bring it to the altar.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    69%

    8They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,

  • Num 23:4
    69%

    4Then God met Balaam, who said to him,“I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”

  • Lev 9:4
    69%

    4and an ox and a ram for peace offerings to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with olive oil, for today the LORD is going to appear to you.’”

  • Gen 33:20
    69%

    20There he set up an altar and called it“The God of Israel is God.”

  • Exod 34:10
    69%

    10He said,“See, I am going to make a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the LORD, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you.

  • Exod 3:12
    69%

    12He replied,“Surely I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you and they will serve God at this mountain.”

  • Deut 16:2
    69%

    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.

  • Gen 26:25
    69%

    25Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

  • Num 15:8
    69%

    8And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,

  • Exod 40:29
    69%

    29He also put the altar for the burnt offering by the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.