Deuteronomy 12:13

Complete Jewish Bible

"Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings just anywhere you see,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in all the sacred places you see.

Hebrew Names Version
Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

King James Version
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

Lexham English Bible
"Take care for yourself so that you do not offer your burnt offerings at just any place that you happen to see,

English Standard Version
Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see,

New Century Version
Be careful that you don't sacrifice your burnt offerings just anywhere you please.

New English Translation
Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,

Amplified Bible
"Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every [cultic] place you see,

New American Standard Bible
"Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in any cultic place that you see,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Take heede that thou offer not thy burnt offrings in euery place that thou seest:

Legacy Standard Bible
"Beware, lest you offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see,

Darby Translation
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;

Easy-to-Read Version
Be sure you don't offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see.

George Lamsa Translation
Take heed to yourselves that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you please;

Good News Translation
You are not to offer your sacrifices wherever you choose;

Literal Translation
Take heed to yourself that you not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take hede vnto thy selfe, that thou offer not thy burntofferynges in what so euer place thou seyst:

American Standard Version
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;

Bible in Basic English
Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take heede that thou offer not thy burnt offeringes in euery place that thou seest:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;

King James Version (1611)
Take heed to thy selfe, that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in euery place that thou seest:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy whole-burnt-offerings in any place which thou shalt see;

English Revised Version
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

Berean Standard Bible
Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Be thou war lest thou offre thi brent sacrifices in ech place which thou seest,

Young's Literal Translation
`Take heed to thee, lest thou cause thy burnt-offerings to ascend in any place which thou seest,

Update Bible Version
You be careful not to offer your burnt-offerings in every place that you see;

Webster's Bible Translation
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest:

World English Bible
Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

New King James Version
Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

New Living Translation
Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings just anywhere you like.

New Life Bible
Be careful that you do not give your burnt gifts in just any place you see.

New Revised Standard
Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place you happen to see.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Take heed to thyself, lest thou cause thine ascending-sacrifice to go up in just any place which thou shalt see;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see:

Revised Standard Version
Take heed that you do not offer your burnt offerings at every place that you see;

THE MESSAGE
Be extra careful: Don't offer your Absolution-Offerings just any place that strikes your fancy. Offer your Absolution-Offerings only in the place that God chooses in one of your tribal regions. There and only there are you to bring all that I command you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see,

Contextual Overview

⁵ Rather, you are to come to the place where Adonai your God will put his name. He will choose it from all your tribes; and you will seek out that place, which is where he will live, and go there. ⁶ You will bring there your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tenths [that you set aside for Adonai ], the offerings that you give, the offerings you have vowed, your voluntary offerings, and the firstborn of your cattle and sheep. ⁷ There you will eat in the presence of Adonai your God; and you will rejoice over everything you set out to do, you and your households, in which Adonai your God has blessed you. ⁸ You will not do things the way we do them here today, where everyone does whatever in his own opinion seems right; ⁹ because you haven't yet arrived at the rest and inheritance which Adonai your God is giving you. ¹⁰ But when you cross the Yarden and live in the land Adonai your God is having you inherit, and he gives you rest from all your surrounding enemies, so that you are living in safety; ¹¹ (ii) then you will bring all that I am ordering you to the place Adonai your God chooses to have his name live — your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tenths, the offering from your hand, and all your best possessions that you dedicate to Adonai ; ¹² and you will rejoice in the presence of Adonai your God — you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves and the Levi staying with you, inasmuch as he has no share or inheritance with you. ¹³ "Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings just anywhere you see, ¹⁴ but do it in the place Adonai will choose in one of your tribal territories; there is where you are to offer your burnt offerings and do everything I order you to do.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

This was directly opposed to the customs of the heathen idolaters, in offering their sacrifices on the tops of hills and mountains. Deuteronomy 12:6, Leviticus 17:2-5, 1 Kings 12:28-32, 1 Kings 15:34, 2 Chronicles 15:17

Reciprocal: Leviticus 1:3 - at the Leviticus 17:4 - bringeth Joshua 22:15 - General Joshua 22:29 - to build 2 Chronicles 11:16 - to sacrifice 2 Chronicles 32:12 - Ye shall worship Isaiah 36:7 - is it not

Cross-References

Genesis 11:29
(Maftir) Then Avram and Nachor took wives for themselves. The name of Avram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nachor's wife was Milkah the daughter of Haran. He was the father of Milkah and of Yiskah.

Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, but I will curse anyone who curses you; and by you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

Genesis 12:5
Avram took his wife Sarai, his brother's son Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, as well as the people they had acquired in Haran; then they set out for the land of Kena‘an and entered the land of Kena‘an.

Genesis 12:6
Avram passed through the land to the place called Sh'khem, to the oak of Moreh. The Kena‘ani were then in the land.

Genesis 12:8
He left that place, went to the hill east of Beit-El and pitched his tent. With Beit-El to the west and ‘Ai to the east, he built an altar there and called on the name of Adonai .

Genesis 12:12
so that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife,' and kill me but keep you alive.

Genesis 12:13
Please say that you are my sister, so that it will go well with me for your sake, and so that I will stay alive because of you."

Genesis 20:2
Avraham was saying of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister"; so Avimelekh king of G'rar sent and took Sarah.

Genesis 20:5
Didn't he himself say to me, ‘She is my sister'? And even she herself said, ‘He is my brother.' In doing this, my heart has been pure and my hands innocent."

Genesis 26:7
The men of the place asked him about his wife, and out of fear he said, "She is my sister." He thought, "If I tell them she's my wife, they might kill me in order to take Rivkah. After all, she is a beautiful woman."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take heed to thyself, that thou offer not thy burnt offerings,.... And so any other, this is put for all the rest:

in every place that thou seest; which might take with their fancy, seem pleasant, and so a proper and suitable place to sacrifice in, as on high places, and under green trees; but they were not to indulge their own fancies and imaginations, or follow the customs of others, but keep to the rules prescribed them by the Lord, and to the place fixed by him for his worship.