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Good News Translation

Deuteronomy 12:13

You are not to offer your sacrifices wherever you choose;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Tabernacle;   Watchfulness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Tabernacle;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sacrifice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Israel;   Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Psalms, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Easton Bible Dictionary - High Place;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Jerusalem;   Tithes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   High Place;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - High places;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Altar;   Grove;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Maccabees, Books of;   Sacrifice;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Altar;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abrogation of Laws;   Commandments, the 613;  

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;
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;
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 Out of the territory of all your tribes the Lord will choose the one place where the people are to come into his presence and worship him. 6 There you are to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, the gifts that you promise to the Lord , your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep. 7 There, in the presence of the Lord your God, who has blessed you, you and your families will eat and enjoy the good things that you have worked for. 8 "When that time comes, you must not do as you have been doing. Until now you have all been worshiping as you please, 9 because you have not yet entered the land that the Lord your God is giving you, where you can live in peace. 10 When you cross the Jordan River, the Lord will let you occupy the land and live there. He will keep you safe from all your enemies, and you will live in peace. 11 The Lord will choose a single place where he is to be worshiped, and there you must bring to him everything that I have commanded: your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, and those special gifts that you have promised to the Lord . 12 Be joyful there in his presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites who live in your towns; remember that the Levites will have no land of their own. 13 You are not to offer your sacrifices wherever you choose; 14 you must offer them only in the one place that the Lord will choose in the territory of one of your tribes. Only there are you to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and do all the other things that I have commanded you.

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 married Sarai, and Nahor married Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.
Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, But I will curse those who curse you. And through you I will bless all the nations."
Genesis 12:5
Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the wealth and all the slaves they had acquired in Haran, and they started out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,
Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through the land until he came to the sacred tree of Moreh, the holy place at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were still living in the land.)
Genesis 12:8
After that, he moved on south to the hill country east of the city of Bethel and set up his camp between Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There also he built an altar and worshiped the Lord .
Genesis 12:12
When the Egyptians see you, they will assume that you are my wife, and so they will kill me and let you live.
Genesis 12:13
Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well."
Genesis 20:2
he said that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
Genesis 20:5
Abraham himself said that she was his sister, and she said the same thing. I did this with a clear conscience, and I have done no wrong."
Genesis 26:7
When the men there asked about his wife, he said that she was his sister. He would not admit that she was his wife, because he was afraid that the men there would kill him to get Rebecca, who was very beautiful.

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.


 
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