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New Century Version

Deuteronomy 12:13

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

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 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

5 but look for the place the Lord your God will choose—a place among your tribes where he is to be worshiped. Go there, 6 and bring to that place your burnt offerings and sacrifices; bring a tenth of what you gain and your special gifts; bring what you have promised and the special gifts you want to give the Lord , and bring the first animals born to your herds and flocks. 7 There you will be together with the Lord your God. There you and your families will eat, and you will enjoy all the good things for which you have worked, because the Lord your God has blessed you. 8 Do not worship the way we have been doing today, each person doing what he thinks is right. 9 You have not yet come to a resting place, to the land the Lord your God will give you as your own. 10 But soon you will cross the Jordan River to live in the land the Lord your God is giving you as your own, where he will give you rest from all your enemies and you will live in safety. 11 Then the Lord your God will choose a place where he is to be worshiped. To that place you must bring everything I tell you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your offerings of a tenth of what you gain, your special gifts, and all your best things you promised to the Lord . 12 There rejoice before the Lord your God. Everyone should rejoice: you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns who have no land of their own. 13 Be careful that you don't sacrifice your burnt offerings just anywhere you please. 14 Offer them only in the place the Lord will choose. He will choose a place in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything 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
Abram and Nahor both married. Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and I will place a curse on those who harm you. And all the people on earth will be blessed through you."
Genesis 12:5
He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and everything they owned, as well as all the servants they had gotten in Haran. They set out from Haran, planning to go to the land of Canaan, and in time they arrived there.
Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through that land as far as the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. The Canaanites were living in the land at that time.
Genesis 12:8
Then he traveled from Shechem to the mountain east of Bethel and set up his tent there. Bethel was to the west, and Ai was to the east. There Abram built another altar to the Lord and worshiped him.
Genesis 12:12
When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This woman is his wife.' Then they will kill me but let you live.
Genesis 12:13
Tell them you are my sister so that things will go well with me and I may be allowed to live because of you."
Genesis 20:2
he told people that his wife Sarah was his sister. Abimelech king of Gerar heard this, so he sent some servants to take her.
Genesis 20:5
Abraham himself told me, ‘This woman is my sister,' and she also said, ‘He is my brother.' I am innocent. I did not know I was doing anything wrong."
Genesis 26:7
His wife Rebekah was very beautiful, and the men of that place asked Isaac about her. Isaac said, "She is my sister," because he was afraid to tell them she was his wife. He thought they might kill him so 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.


 
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