Bible verse

Deuteronomy 12:13

Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see;

Deuteronomy 12:13 · BSB

Deuteronomy 12:13 in context

The verses around it, from Deuteronomy 12.

9 For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.

10 When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,

11 then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.

12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

13 Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see;

14 you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.

15 But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,

16 but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

17 Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.

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Deuteronomy 12:13 in other translations

KJV

Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

ASV

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

ERV

Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

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