Deuteronomy 12:13

Easy-to-Read Version

Be sure you don't offer your burnt offerings in just any place 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,

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

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

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 The Lord your God will choose a special place among your tribes. That will be the home for his name. You must go to that place to worship him. ⁶ There you must bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, one-tenth of your crops and animals, your special gifts, any gifts you promised to him, any special gift you want to give, and the first animals born in your herds and flocks. ⁷ You and your families will eat together at that place, and the Lord your God will be there with you. You will enjoy sharing the things you worked for there. You will remember that the Lord your God blessed you and gave you these good things. ⁸ "You must not continue to worship the way we have been worshiping. Until now each of us has been worshiping God any way we wanted. ⁹ This is because we have not yet entered the peaceful land that the Lord your God is giving you. ¹⁰ But you will go across the Jordan River and live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. There he will give you rest from all your enemies, and you will be safe. ¹¹ Then the Lord your God will choose a place that will be the home for his name. You must bring everything I command you to that place. Bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, one-tenth of your crops and animals, your special gifts, and any gifts that you promised to give to the Lord . ¹² Come to that place with all your people—your children, all your servants, and the Levites living in your towns. (These Levites will not have a share of the land for their own.) Enjoy yourselves together there with the Lord your God. ¹³ Be sure you don't offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see. ¹⁴ The Lord will choose his special place among your tribes. Offer your burnt offerings and do everything else I told you only in that place.

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
Abram and Nahor both married. Abram's wife was named Sarai. Nahor's wife was named Milcah. Milcah was the daughter of Haran. Haran was the father of Milcah and Iscah.

Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you. I will use you to bless all the people on earth."

Genesis 12:5
He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the slaves, and all the other things he had gotten in Haran. Then he and his group moved to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through the land as far as the town of Shechem and then to the big tree at Moreh. The Canaanites were living in the land at that time.

Genesis 12:8
Then he left that place and traveled to the mountains east of Bethel. He set up his tent there. Bethel was to the west, and Ai was to the east. Abram built another altar at that place to honor the Lord , and he worshiped the Lord there.

Genesis 12:12
When the Egyptian men see you, they will say, ‘This woman is his wife.' Then they will kill me and keep you alive because they want you.

Genesis 12:13
So tell them that you are my sister. Then they will be good to me because of you. In this way you will save my life."

Genesis 20:2
Abraham told people that Sarah was his sister. King Abimelech of Gerar heard this. Abimelech wanted Sarah, so he sent some servants to take her.

Genesis 20:5
Abraham himself told me, ‘This woman is my sister,' and she also said, ‘This man is my brother.' I am innocent. I did not know what I was doing."

Genesis 26:7
His wife Rebekah was very beautiful. The men of that place asked Isaac about Rebekah. He said, "She is my sister." He was afraid to tell them Rebekah was his wife. He was afraid the men would kill him so that they could have her.

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.