Verse 2

Deuteronomy 12:2

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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2 Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:

Original Language Text

hebrew

אַבֵּ֣ד תְּ֠אַבְּדוּ/ן אֶֽת כָּל הַ/מְּקֹמ֞וֹת אֲשֶׁ֧ר עָֽבְדוּ שָׁ֣ם הַ/גּוֹיִ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתֶּ֛ם יֹרְשִׁ֥ים אֹתָ֖/ם אֶת אֱלֹהֵי/הֶ֑ם עַל הֶ/הָרִ֤ים הָֽ/רָמִים֙ וְ/עַל הַ/גְּבָע֔וֹת וְ/תַ֖חַת כָּל עֵ֥ץ רַעֲנָן

English Translation

You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations that you are driving out served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every leafy tree.

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Chapter 12 Context

1 These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the land, which the Lord the God (Elohim)... Focus ↗

2 Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high...

3 Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their groves with fire, and break their i... Focus ↗

4 You shall not do so to the Lord your God (Elohim): Focus ↗

5 But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God (Elohim) shall choose out of all your tribe... Focus ↗

6 And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the tithes and firstfruits of your ha... Focus ↗

7 And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God (Elohim): and you shall rejoice in all thi... Focus ↗

8 You shall not do there the things we do here this day, every man that which seemeth good to himself. Focus ↗

9 For until this present time you are not come to refit, and to the possession, which the Lord your Go... Focus ↗

10 You shall pass over the Jordan, and shall dwell in the land which the Lord your God (Elohim) will gi... Focus ↗

11 In the place, which the Lord your God (Elohim) shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither s... Focus ↗

12 There shall you feast before the Lord your God (Elohim), you and your sons and your daughters, your... Focus ↗

13 Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see: Focus ↗

14 But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer sacrifices. and s... Focus ↗

15 But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating of flesh delight thee, kill, and eat according to the bl... Focus ↗

16 Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. Focus ↗

17 Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the firstborn of... Focus ↗

18 But thou shalt eat them before the Lord thy God (Elohim) in the place which the Lord thy God (Elohim... Focus ↗

19 Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou livest in the land. Focus ↗

20 When the Lord thy God (Elohim) shall have enlarged thy borders, as he hath spoken to thee, and thou... Focus ↗

21 And if the place which the Lord thy God (Elohim) shall choose, that his name should be there, be far... Focus ↗

22 Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them: both the clean and unclean shall eat... Focus ↗

23 Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore thou... Focus ↗

24 But thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water, Focus ↗

25 That it may be well with thee and thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is pleasing... Focus ↗

26 But the things which thou hast sanctified and vowed to the Lord, thou shalt take, and shalt come to... Focus ↗

27 And shalt offer thy oblations the flesh and the blood upon the altar of the Lord thy God (Elohim): t... Focus ↗

28 Observe and hear all the things that I command thee, that it may be well with thee and thy children... Focus ↗

29 When the Lord thy God (Elohim) shall have destroyed before thy face the nations, which then shalt go... Focus ↗

30 Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou seek after t... Focus ↗

31 Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God (Elohim). For they have done to their gods all... Focus ↗

32 What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish. Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Deuteronomy
Chapter: Chapter 12 (32 verses)
Version: Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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