3 And ayou shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their1 wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.
4 You shall not aworship the Lord your God with such things.
5 “But you shall seek the aplace where the Lord your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His bdwelling place; and there you shall go.
6 aThere you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the bfirstborn of your herds and flocks.
7 And athere you shall eat before the Lord your God, and byou shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
8 “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today—aevery man doing whatever is right in his own eyes—
9 for as yet you have not come to the arest and the inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you.
10 But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you arest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety,
11 then there will be the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. 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 offerings which you vow to the Lord.
12 And ayou shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the bLevite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
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 chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
15 “However, ayou may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; bthe unclean and the clean may eat of it, cof the gazelle and the deer alike.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in John Wesley's Notes for Deuteronomy 12:5.
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