Verse 4

Deuteronomy 12:4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

4 You shall not do so to the Lord your God (Elohim):
Original Language Text
hebrew
לֹֽא תַעֲשׂ֣וּ/ן כֵּ֔ן לַ/יהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵי/כֶֽם
English Translation
You shall not do so to the Lord your God.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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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... Focus ↗
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):
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 ↗