Deuteronomy 12:26

THE MESSAGE

And this: Lift high your Holy-Offerings and your Vow-Offerings and bring them to the place God designates. Sacrifice your Absolution-Offerings, the meat and blood, on the Altar of God , your God; pour out the blood of the Absolution-Offering on the Altar of God , your God; then you can go ahead and eat the meat.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“But you are to take the holy offerings you have and your vow offerings and go to the place the Lord chooses.

Hebrew Names Version
Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which the LORD shall choose:

King James Version
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the Lord shall choose:

Lexham English Bible
Only your holy objects that are yours and your votive gifts you must carry and you must bring to the place that Yahweh will choose.

English Standard Version
But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place that the Lord will choose,

New Century Version
Take your holy things and the things you have promised to give, and go to the place the Lord will choose.

New English Translation
Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the Lord will choose.

Amplified Bible
"However, you shall take your holy things which you have [to offer] and your votive (pledged, vowed) offerings, you shall take them and go to the place which the LORD will choose.

New American Standard Bible
"Only your holy things which you may have and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But thine holy things which thou hast, and thy vowes thou shalt take vp, and come vnto the place which the Lord shall chuse.

Legacy Standard Bible
Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which Yahweh chooses.

Contemporary English Version
All sacrifices and offerings to the Lord must be taken to the place where he chooses to be worshiped. If you offer a sacrifice to please the Lord , all of its meat must be burned on the altar. You can eat the meat from certain kinds of sacrifices, but you must always pour out the animal's blood on the altar.

Complete Jewish Bible
Only the things set aside for God which you have, and the vows you have vowed to make, you must take and go to the place which Adonai will choose.

Darby Translation
But thy hallowed things which thou hast, and what thou hast vowed, thou shalt take, and come to the place which Jehovah will choose;

Easy-to-Read Version
"If you decide to give something special to God, you must go to the special place that the Lord your God will choose. And if you make a special promise, you must go to that place to give that gift to God.

George Lamsa Translation
Only the holy things which you have, and your votive offerings you shall take and go to the place which the LORD shall choose;

Good News Translation
Take to the one place of worship your offerings and the gifts that you have promised the Lord .

Literal Translation
Only, your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take up and shall go to the place which Jehovah shall choose.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But whan thou halowest oughte that is thine, or makest a vowe, thou shalt take it, and brynge it vnto the place, that the LORDE hath chosen,

American Standard Version
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which Jehovah shall choose;

Bible in Basic English
But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But thy holy thynges whiche thou hast, and thy vowes, thou shalt take, and come vnto the place whiche the Lorde hath chosen.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose;

King James Version (1611)
Onely thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vowes, thou shalt take, and goe vnto the place which the Lord shall chuse.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But thou shalt take thy holy things, if thou hast any, and thy vowed-offerings, and come to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name named upon it.

English Revised Version
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:

Berean Standard Bible
But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli thou schalt take that that thou `auowidist, and halewidist to the Lord, and thou schalt come to the place which the Lord chees;

Young's Literal Translation
`Only, thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou dost take up, and hast gone in unto the place which Jehovah doth choose,

Update Bible Version
Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:

Webster's Bible Translation
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go to the place which the LORD shall choose:

World English Bible
Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:

New King James Version
Only the holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.

New Living Translation
"Take your sacred gifts and your offerings given to fulfill a vow to the place the Lord chooses.

New Life Bible
Take your holy things which you may have and all the special gifts you promised to give to the place which the Lord chooses.

New Revised Standard
But the sacred donations that are due from you, and your votive gifts, you shall bring to the place that the Lord will choose.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Howbeit, thy holy things which thou shalt have and thy vow-offerings, shalt thou take and come in, unto the place which Yahweh shall choose;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But 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:

Revised Standard Version
But the holy things which are due from you, and your votive offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place which the LORD will choose,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.

Contextual Overview

⁵Instead find the site that God , your God, will choose and mark it with his name as a common center for all the tribes of Israel. Assemble there. Bring to that place your Absolution-Offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and Tribute-Offerings, your Vow-Offerings, your Freewill-Offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. Feast there in the Presence of God , your God. Celebrate everything that you and your families have accomplished under the blessing of God , your God. ⁸Don't continue doing things the way we're doing them at present, each of us doing as we wish. Until now you haven't arrived at the goal, the resting place, the inheritance that God , your God, is giving you. But the minute you cross the Jordan River and settle into the land God , your God, is enabling you to inherit, he'll give you rest from all your surrounding enemies. You'll be able to settle down and live in safety. ¹¹From then on, at the place that God , your God, chooses to mark with his name as the place where you can meet him, bring everything that I command you: your Absolution-Offerings and sacrifices, tithes and Tribute-Offerings, and the best of your Vow-Offerings that you vow to God . Celebrate there in the Presence of God , your God, you and your sons and daughters, your servants and maids, including the Levite living in your neighborhood because he has no place of his own in your inheritance. ¹³Be 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. ¹⁵ It's permissible to slaughter your nonsacrificial animals like gazelle and deer in your towns and eat all you want from them with the blessing of God , your God. Both the ritually clean and unclean may eat. ¹⁶But you may not eat the blood. Pour the blood out on the ground like water. Nor may you eat there the tithe of your grain, new wine, or olive oil; nor the firstborn of your herds and flocks; nor any of the Vow-Offerings that you vow; nor your Freewill-Offerings and Tribute-Offerings. All these you must eat in the Presence of God , your God, in the place God , your God, chooses—you, your son and daughter, your servant and maid, and the Levite who lives in your neighborhood. You are to celebrate in the Presence of God , your God, all the things you've been able to accomplish. ¹⁹ And make sure that for as long as you live on your land you never, never neglect the Levite. ²⁰When God , your God, expands your territory as he promised he would do, and you say, "I'm hungry for meat," because you happen to be craving meat at the time, go ahead and eat as much meat as you want. If you're too far away from the place that God , your God, has marked with his name, it's all right to slaughter animals from your herds and flocks that God has given you, as I've commanded you. In your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want. Just as the nonsacrificial animals like the gazelle and deer are eaten, you may eat them; the ritually unclean and clean may eat them at the same table. ²³Only this: Absolutely no blood. Don't eat the blood. Blood is life; don't eat the life with the meat. Don't eat it; pour it out on the ground like water. Don't eat it; then you'll have a good life, you and your children after you. By all means, do the right thing in God 's eyes. ²⁶And this: Lift high your Holy-Offerings and your Vow-Offerings and bring them to the place God designates. Sacrifice your Absolution-Offerings, the meat and blood, on the Altar of God , your God; pour out the blood of the Absolution-Offering on the Altar of God , your God; then you can go ahead and eat the meat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

holy: Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 12:18, Numbers 5:9, Numbers 5:10, Numbers 18:19

thy vows: Genesis 28:20, Leviticus 22:18-33, 1 Samuel 1:21-24, Psalms 66:13-15

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:15 - in the Leviticus 7:16 - be a vow Leviticus 17:3 - that killeth an Deuteronomy 16:2 - in the place which Joshua 22:27 - that we 2 Chronicles 2:6 - save only 2 Chronicles 32:12 - Ye shall worship

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Only thy holy things which thou hast,.... Which the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan interpret of the tithe of their holy things, and Aben Ezra of their burnt offerings and peace offerings; they seem to include all in Deuteronomy 12:17

and thy vows thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the Lord shall choose; so often referred to, but not named; see Deuteronomy 12:5.