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Deuteronomy 14:23 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" You shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. "
Deuteronomy 14:23
Verse in Context
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21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year.
23 You shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which the LORD your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when the LORD your God blesses you,
25 then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.
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Deuteronomy 14:1
"You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead."
Deuteronomy 14:2
"For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth."
Deuteronomy 14:3
"You shall not eat any abominable thing."
Deuteronomy 14:4
"These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,"
Deuteronomy 14:5
"the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois."
Deuteronomy 14:6
"Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat."
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