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Deuteronomy 12

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  1. 1These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.19 cross-references: 1 Kings 8:40, Job 7:1, Deuteronomy 4:9–10, Deuteronomy 4:19, Deuteronomy 4:45
  2. 2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:33 cross-references: Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:25–26, Numbers 33:51–52, 2 Kings 16:4, Exodus 34:12–17
  3. 3And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.26 cross-references: Numbers 33:52, Judges 2:2, Zechariah 13:2, Psalms 16:4, Deuteronomy 7:5
  4. 4Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God.9 cross-references: Leviticus 20:23, Deuteronomy 20:18, Deuteronomy 12:30–31, Deuteronomy 16:21–22
  5. 5But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:89 cross-references: Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 26:2, 2 Chronicles 7:12, Deuteronomy 16:2, 1 Kings 8:29
  6. 6And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:36 cross-references: Deuteronomy 15:19–20, Deuteronomy 14:22–26, Deuteronomy 12:17, Deuteronomy 26:2, Numbers 18:15–17
  7. 7And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.41 cross-references: Deuteronomy 12:18, Leviticus 23:40, Deuteronomy 14:26, Deuteronomy 12:12, Psalms 128:1–2
  8. 8Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.12 cross-references: Judges 21:25, Judges 17:6, Proverbs 21:2, Numbers 15:39, Acts 7:42
  9. 9For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth you.17 cross-references: 1 Kings 8:56, Deuteronomy 25:19, Psalms 95:11, Micah 2:10, Hebrews 4:8–9
  10. 10But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;28 cross-references: Jeremiah 33:11, Ezekiel 34:28, Deuteronomy 11:31, Deuteronomy 3:27, Deuteronomy 4:22
  11. 11Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord:63 cross-references: Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 15:20, John 4:20–23, Deuteronomy 18:6, Deuteronomy 16:2–8
  12. 12And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.51 cross-references: Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 26:12, Deuteronomy 10:9, Deuteronomy 12:19, Deuteronomy 14:29
  13. 13Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:14 cross-references: 1 Kings 15:34, Leviticus 17:2–5, Deuteronomy 12:6, 2 Chronicles 15:17, 1 Kings 12:28–32
  14. 14But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.11 cross-references: Deuteronomy 12:11, 2 Corinthians 5:19, Deuteronomy 12:5, Psalms 9:11, Hebrews 10:19–22
  15. 15Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.11 cross-references: Deuteronomy 14:5, Deuteronomy 14:26, Deuteronomy 12:20–23, Deuteronomy 15:22–23, Leviticus 17:3–5
  16. 16Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.18 cross-references: Genesis 9:4, Deuteronomy 15:23, Deuteronomy 12:23–24, Acts 15:29, Leviticus 7:26–27
  17. 17Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:28 cross-references: Deuteronomy 26:14, Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 14:22–29, Leviticus 27:30–32, Deuteronomy 26:12
  18. 18But 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.35 cross-references: Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 14:23, Deuteronomy 12:5, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Acts 16:34
  19. 19Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.15 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 31:4–21, 2 Chronicles 11:13–14, Nehemiah 10:34–39, 1 Corinthians 9:10–14, Deuteronomy 14:27–29
  20. 20When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.29 cross-references: Deuteronomy 19:8, Deuteronomy 11:24, Exodus 34:24, Genesis 28:14, Genesis 15:18–21
  21. 21If 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.21 cross-references: Deuteronomy 12:5, Ezra 6:12, Deuteronomy 16:6, Deuteronomy 16:11, Deuteronomy 14:23–24
  22. 22Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.1 cross-reference: Deuteronomy 12:15–16
  23. 23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.16 cross-references: Leviticus 17:11, Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 17:13–14, Leviticus 3:16–17, Deuteronomy 12:16
  24. 24Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.4 cross-references: Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 15:23
  25. 25Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.20 cross-references: Isaiah 3:10, Deuteronomy 4:40, 1 Kings 11:38, Exodus 15:26, Deuteronomy 13:18
  26. 26Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the Lord shall choose:19 cross-references: Numbers 18:19, Numbers 5:9–10, Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 12:21, Deuteronomy 12:17–18
  27. 27And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the Lord thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the Lord thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.7 cross-references: Leviticus 17:11, Leviticus 1:13, Leviticus 1:9, Leviticus 1:5, Leviticus 4:30
  28. 28Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.23 cross-references: John 15:14, John 15:10, Deuteronomy 4:40, Deuteronomy 12:25, Psalms 105:45
  29. 29When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;8 cross-references: Joshua 23:4, Deuteronomy 19:1, Exodus 23:23, Psalms 78:55, Deuteronomy 9:3
  30. 30Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.30 cross-references: Jeremiah 10:2, Ezekiel 20:32, Deuteronomy 7:16, Ezekiel 20:28, Psalms 106:34–38
  31. 31Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.39 cross-references: Jeremiah 32:35, 2 Kings 21:2, 2 Kings 17:15–17, Jeremiah 7:31, Deuteronomy 18:9–10
  32. 32What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.47 cross-references: Deuteronomy 4:2, Revelation 22:18–19, Joshua 1:7, Proverbs 30:6, Deuteronomy 13:18

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