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Deuteronomy Chapter 12

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DEUTERONOMY

Deuteronomy 12

1These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the land, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess it all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth.
1 Kings 8:40, 1 Kings 8:40, Job 7:1, Job 7:1, Deuteronomy 4:9
2Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:
Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:25, Deuteronomy 7:26, Numbers 33:51
3Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names out of those places.
Numbers 33:52, Judges 2:2, Numbers 33:52, Judges 2:2, Zechariah 13:2
4You shall not do so to the Lord your God:
Leviticus 20:23, Leviticus 20:23, Deuteronomy 20:18, Deuteronomy 20:18, Deuteronomy 12:30
5But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:
Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 26:2, Deuteronomy 26:2, 2 Chronicles 7:12
6And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of your herds and your sheep.
Deuteronomy 15:19, Deuteronomy 15:20, Deuteronomy 15:19, Deuteronomy 15:20, Deuteronomy 14:22
7And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.
Deuteronomy 12:18, Deuteronomy 12:18, Leviticus 23:40, Deuteronomy 14:26, Leviticus 23:40
8You shall not do there the things we do here this day, every man that which seemeth good to himself.
Judges 21:25, Judges 21:25, Judges 17:6, Judges 17:6, Proverbs 21:2
9For until this present time you are not come to rest, and to the possession, which the Lord your God will give you.
1 Kings 8:56, 1 Kings 8:56, Deuteronomy 25:19, Psalms 95:11, Deuteronomy 25:19
10You shall pass over the Jordan, and shall dwell in the land which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have rest from all enemies round about: and may dwell without any fear,
Jeremiah 33:11, Ezekiel 34:28, Jeremiah 33:11, Ezekiel 34:28, Deuteronomy 11:31
11In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 15:20, Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 15:20, John 4:20
12There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite that dwelleth in your cities. For he hath no other part and possession among you.
Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 26:12, Deuteronomy 10:9, Deuteronomy 26:12
13Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see:
1 Kings 15:34, Leviticus 17:2, Leviticus 17:5, Deuteronomy 12:6, 2 Chronicles 15:17
14But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer sacrifices, and shalt do all that I command thee.
Deuteronomy 12:11, 2 Corinthians 5:19, Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:11, 2 Corinthians 5:19
15But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating of flesh delight thee, kill, and eat according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee, in thy cities: whether it be unclean, that is to say, having blemish or defect: or clean, that is to say, sound and without blemish, such as may be offered, as the roe, and the hart, shalt thou eat it:
Deuteronomy 14:5, Deuteronomy 14:5, Deuteronomy 14:26, Deuteronomy 12:20, Deuteronomy 12:23
16Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
Genesis 9:4, Genesis 9:4, Deuteronomy 15:23, Deuteronomy 15:23, Deuteronomy 12:23
17Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the firstborn of thy herds and thy cattle, nor any thing that thou vowest, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the firstfruits of thy hands:
Deuteronomy 26:14, Deuteronomy 26:14, Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 14:22, Deuteronomy 14:29
18But thou shalt 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 maidservant, and the Levite that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou shalt rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy God in all things, whereunto thou shalt put thy hand.
Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 14:23, Deuteronomy 14:23, Deuteronomy 12:5
19Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou livest in the land.
2 Chronicles 31:4, 2 Chronicles 31:21, 2 Chronicles 31:4, 2 Chronicles 31:21, 2 Chronicles 11:13
20When the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he hath spoken to thee, and thou wilt eat the flesh that thy soul desireth:
Deuteronomy 19:8, Deuteronomy 19:8, Deuteronomy 11:24, Deuteronomy 11:24, Exodus 34:24
21And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name should be there, be far off, thou shalt kill of thy herds and of thy flocks, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns, as it pleaseth thee.
Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:5, Ezra 6:12, Deuteronomy 16:6, Deuteronomy 16:11
22Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them: both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.
Deuteronomy 12:15, Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 12:15, Deuteronomy 12:16
23Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:
Leviticus 17:11, Leviticus 17:11, Genesis 9:4, Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 17:13
24But thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water,
Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 15:23, Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 15:23
25That it may be well with thee and thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord.
Isaiah 3:10, Deuteronomy 4:40, 1 Kings 11:38, Exodus 15:26, Isaiah 3:10
26But the things which thou hast sanctified and vowed to the Lord, thou shalt take, and shalt come to the place which the Lord shall choose:
Numbers 18:19, Numbers 5:9, Numbers 5:10, Numbers 18:19, Numbers 5:9
27And shalt offer thy oblations, the flesh and the blood upon the altar of the Lord thy God: the blood of thy victims thou shalt pour on the altar: and the flesh thou thyself shalt eat.
Leviticus 17:11, Leviticus 1:13, Leviticus 1:9, Leviticus 17:11, Leviticus 1:13
28Observe and hear all the things that I command thee, that it may be well with thee and thy children after thee for ever, when thou shalt do what is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.
John 15:14, John 15:10, Deuteronomy 4:40, John 15:14, John 15:10
29When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the nations, which thou shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess them, and dwell in their land:
Joshua 23:4, Joshua 23:4, Deuteronomy 19:1, Deuteronomy 19:1, Exodus 23:23
30Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship.
Jeremiah 10:2, Ezekiel 20:32, Jeremiah 10:2, Ezekiel 20:32, Deuteronomy 7:16
31Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.
Jeremiah 32:35, Jeremiah 32:35, 2 Kings 21:2, 2 Kings 17:15, 2 Kings 17:17
32What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish.
Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 4:2, Revelation 22:18, Revelation 22:19, Revelation 22:18

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