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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Literal Standard Version

Deuteronomy 12:13

Take heed to yourself lest you cause your burnt-offerings to ascend in any place which you see;

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;
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

5rather—that you seek after the place which your God YHWH chooses out of all your tribes to put His Name there, for His Dwelling Place, and you have entered there, 6and have brought in there your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the raised-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock; 7and you have eaten there before your God YHWH, and have rejoiced in every putting forth of your hand, you and your households, with which your God YHWH has blessed you. 8You do not do according to all that we are doing here today—each [doing] anything that is right in his own eyes— 9for until now you have not come to the rest and to the inheritance which your God YHWH is giving to you. 10When you have passed over the Jordan, and have dwelt in the land which your God YHWH is causing you to inherit, and He has given rest to you from all your surrounding enemies, and you have dwelt confidently, 11then it has been, the place on which your God YHWH fixes to cause His Name to dwell there, there you bring in all that which I am commanding you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the raised-offering of your hand, and all the choice of your vows which you vow to YHWH. 12And you have rejoiced before your God YHWH, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your handmaids, and the Levite who [is] within your gates, for he has no part and inheritance with you. 13Take heed to yourself lest you cause your burnt-offerings to ascend in any place which you see;14rather—that in the place which YHWH chooses in one of your tribes, there you cause your burnt-offerings to ascend, and there you do all that which I am commanding 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
And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife [is] Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife [is] Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah.
Genesis 12:3
And I bless those blessing you, and I curse him who is cursing you, and all families of the ground have been blessed in you."
Genesis 12:5
And Abram takes his wife Sarai, and his brother's son Lot, and all their substance that they have gained, and the persons that they have obtained in Haran; and they go out to go toward the land of Canaan; and they come to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 12:6
And Abram passes over into the land, to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh; and the Canaanite [is] then in the land.
Genesis 12:8
And he removes from there toward a mountain at the east of Beth-El, and stretches out the tent (Beth-El at the west, and Hai at the east), and he builds an altar to YHWH there, and preaches in the Name of YHWH.
Genesis 12:12
and it has come to pass that the Egyptians see you, and they have said, This [is] his wife; and they have slain me, and you they keep alive:
Genesis 12:13
please say you [are] my sister, so that it is well with me because of you, and my soul has lived for your sake."
Genesis 20:2
and Abraham says concerning his wife Sarah, "She is my sister"; and Abimelech king of Gerar sends and takes Sarah.
Genesis 20:5
Has he not himself said to me, She [is] my sister! And she, even she herself, said, He [is] my brother; in the integrity of my heart, and in the innocence of my hands, I have done this."
Genesis 26:7
and men of the place ask him of his wife, and he says, "She [is] my sister": for he has been afraid to say, "My wife—lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, for she [is] of good appearance."

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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