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Deuteronomy 12:12-18
New International Version
Deuteronomy 12:12-18
New International Version
12 And there rejoice(A) before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites(B) from your towns who have no allotment or inheritance(C) of their own. 13 Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please.(D) 14 Offer them only at the place the Lord will choose(E) in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.
15 Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer,(F) according to the blessing the Lord your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it. 16 But you must not eat the blood;(G) pour(H) it out on the ground like water.(I) 17 You must not eat in your own towns the tithe(J) of your grain and new wine and olive oil,(K) or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give,(L) or your freewill offerings or special gifts.(M) 18 Instead, you are to eat(N) them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God will choose(O)—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice(P) before the Lord your God in everything you put your hand to.
Deuteronomy 12:12-18
King James Version
Deuteronomy 12:12-18
King James Version
12 And 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.
13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
14 But 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.
15 Notwithstanding 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.
16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
17 Thou 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:
18 But 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.
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