Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
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Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
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Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
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Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 12:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 17:2-5 “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: Whatever man there is of the house of Israel who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before Yahweh’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from among his people. This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.
- 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.
- 1 Kings 12:28-32 So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there. He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi. Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
- 1 Kings 15:34 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
- 2 Chronicles 15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 12:13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer…
Deu 12:13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
Ver. 13. Take heed.] See Deu 11:16 Lev 17:4.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Nor the other things mentioned above, this one and…
Nor the other things mentioned above, this one and most eminent kind being put for all the rest, as is usual; for being all expressed before, it was needless to repeat them again.
In every place that thou seest, to wit, with complacency and approbation, which thou thinkest very fit and proper for such a work, as one might possibly judge of some high places, or groves, or gardens.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Take heed to thyself, that thou offer not thy…
Take heed to thyself, that thou offer not thy burnt offerings,.... And so any other, this is put for all the rest:
in every place that thou seest; which might take with their fancy, seem pleasant, and so a proper and suitable place to sacrifice in, as on high places, and under green trees; but they were not to indulge their own fancies and imaginations, or follow the customs of others, but keep to the rules prescribed them by the Lord, and to the place fixed by him for his worship.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Thy burnt-offerings - Nor the other things mentioned above,…
Thy burnt-offerings - Nor the other things mentioned above, this one and most eminent kind being put for all the rest.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 12:13. Thy burnt-offerings — Nor the other things…
Deu 12:13. Thy burnt-offerings — Nor the other things mentioned above, this one and most eminent kind being put for all the rest.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain See. On the high places, &c., as the heathens…
See. On the high places, &c., as the heathens did, (ver. 2,) or in any other place but that which God appointed.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13–19. Third Statement of the Law of the One…
13–19. Third Statement of the Law of the One Sanctuary
In the Sg. address and with phrases characteristic of that form. In substance much the same as the two previous statements, the zebaḥim being curiously omitted from the list of offerings. Deu_12:15 f. are clearly a later insertion. We see from this statement how a law tended in the hands of the deuteronomists to grow both in content and form.
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Deu_12:13. Take heed to thyself] See on Deu_6:12.
burnt offerings] ‘Olôth alone without zebaḥim. This may have been the original form of the law. Contrast Deu_12:6; Deu_12:11.
in every place that thou seest] Peculiar to this statement: i.e. every sacred place used as such by the Canaanites on the conspicuous positions described in Deu_12:2. Thou seest, cp. Eze_20:28, when I had brought them into the land … then they saw (or looked out for) every high hill and every thick tree and offered there, etc.
Deu_12:14. See on Deu_12:5 : here in one of thy tribes instead of out of all thy tribes.
Deu_12:15-16. Notwithstanding … Only] Both = Heb. raḳ, used to introduce exceptions or qualifications to the laws, 10 times, and 10 more in the rest of the book (see on Deu_10:15). On the contents of these verses see Deu_12:20-25 which they anticipate, disturbing at the same time the list of offerings begun in Deu_12:13-14 and continued in Deu_12:17. The immediate connection of Deu_12:17 with Deu_12:14 is clear. On these grounds Deu_12:15-16 are generally taken as a later insertion. Note, too, the Pl. ye shall not eat in 16. The Pl. does not occur in the rest of this statement of the law and may well be due to the hand that has made this addition; as so many of these sporadic changes of address are found in editorial additions. The LXX confirms the Pl. here: the Sam. Sg. may be due to harmonising.
Deu_12:17. Direct continuation of Deu_12:13-14, completing the list of offerings to be brought to the one altar. On the contents see on Deu_12:6; Deu_12:11 : the phraseology is however, characteristic of the Sg. passages.
Thou mayest not] Heb., lit. thou shalt not be able: in the sense thou must or darest not only in Sg. passages: here, Deu_16:5, Deu_17:15, Deu_22:3, or with he, Deu_21:16; Deu_22:19; Deu_22:29; Deu_24:4.
within thy gates] Thy homestead or town of residence: used almost exclusively with Sg. (Deu_5:14, Deu_12:17 f., 21, Deu_14:21; Deu_14:27-29, Deu_15:22, Deu_16:11; Deu_16:14, Deu_17:8, Deu_24:14, Deu_26:12, Deu_31:12, cp. Deu_28:57). Only one Pl. passage has it, Deu_12:12.
Deu_12:18. See on Deu_12:5; Deu_12:7; Deu_12:12.
Deu_12:19. Take heed, etc.] See on Deu_6:12.
thou forsake not the Levite, etc.] So Deu_14:27.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (13, 14) Take heed to thyself that thou offer…
(13, 14) Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest: But in the place which the Lord shall choose.—An attempt is made by some modern writers to establish a contradiction between this precept and the one in Exo_20:24 : “In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.” But they are not really contradictory. The choice of Jehovah makes the place of acceptance. He need not always choose the same spot-Either this law in Deuteronomy was written by Moses or it was not. If it was, it must be taken in the same sense as Exo_20:24. If it was the work of later times, the writer must have known perfectly that Jehovah had varied His choice from time to time, and therefore the injunction must still have the same sense. Rashi remarks upon the words “Take heed that thou offer not . . . in every place that thou seest”—i.e. which comes into thy mind—“but thou must offer at the command of a prophet, as, for instance, Elijah on Mount Carmel.” It seems clear that the general principle inculcated here is the same with that of Exodus 20 and of Leviticus 17. The choice of Jehovah makes the place of worship. Details may safely be left to the direction of the authorised Divine representatives at any given time. If the Jews themselves saw no difficulty or discrepancy in these Scriptures, is it any proof of wisdom for us to make difficulties? Do we not rather prove the imperfection of our own understanding?
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 13-16. They were to beware of offering sacrifice…
Vers. 13-16. They were to beware of offering sacrifice in any place that might seem to them best; their offerings were to be presented only in that place which God should choose. But this did not imply that they were not to kill and eat in their own abodes whatever they desired for food, according to the blessing of Jehovah their God. Only they were to abstain from eating of blood (cf. Gen_9:4; Lev_7:26) that they were to pour on the earth as if it were water. Burnt offering; this is named instar omnium, as the principal offering. Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. To "lust," in old English, means simply to will, choose, desire; it is the same word as "list," or, as it is sometimes spelt, "lest," and does not, as now, imply anything evil. As of the roebuck, and as of the hart; probably the gazelle and fallow deer. As these were animals that could not be offered in sacrifice, the distinction between clean and unclean, on the part of the eaters, did not come into consideration.
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Moses continues speaking to the people of Israel.
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Pay attention to yourself
"Be careful"
every place that you see
"any place that pleases you" or "wherever you want"
but it is at the place that Yahweh will choose
The burnt offerings are to be made at the tabernacle. Yahweh himself would choose where the tabernacle would be located.
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