Deuteronomy 12:7-9

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁷And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you put your hand, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

⁸You ^[a]shall not do according to all we do here [in the camp] this day, every man doing whatever looks right in his own eyes.

⁹For you have not yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God gives you.

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 12:8 “It has been too often overlooked that the Law of Moses had a prophetic side. It was given to him and to Israel when they were not in a position to keep it [fully]. It was the law of the land which God would give them. In many ways its observance depended on the completion of the conquest of the land and upon the quietness of the times in which they lived. This prophetic aspect was certainly not unrecognized by the Jews, or they would not (for example) have neglected to dwell in booths at the Feast of Tabernacles from the time of Joshua to Nehemiah (Neh. 8:17)” (Charles J. Ellicott, A Bible Commentary).