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And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared,[a] your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. Both you and your families[b] must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he[c] has blessed you. You must not do as we are doing here today, with everyone[d] doing what seems best to him,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 12:6 tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”
  2. Deuteronomy 12:7 tn Heb “and your houses,” referring to entire households. The pronouns “you” and “your” are plural in the Hebrew text.
  3. Deuteronomy 12:7 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.
  4. Deuteronomy 12:8 tn Heb “a man.”

there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes(A) and special gifts, what you have vowed(B) to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.(C) There, in the presence(D) of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice(E) in everything you have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you.

You are not to do as we do here today, everyone doing as they see fit,(F)

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