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Deuteronomy 12:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; "

Deuteronomy 12:13

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11 then it shall happen that to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD.

12 You shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

13 Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

14 but in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

15 Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the LORD your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

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Numbers 28:31

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"Besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect."

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Deuteronomy 12:1

"These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth."

Deuteronomy 12:2

"You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree."

Deuteronomy 12:3

"You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place."

Deuteronomy 12:4

"You shall not do so to the LORD your God."

Deuteronomy 12:5

"But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there."

Deuteronomy 12:6

"You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there."

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