Verse 13

Deuteronomy 12:13

Bible in Basic English

13 Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:
Original Language Text
hebrew
הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְ/ךָ֔ פֶּֽן תַּעֲלֶ֖ה עֹלֹתֶ֑י/ךָ בְּ/כָל מָק֖וֹם אֲשֶׁ֥ר תִּרְאֶֽה
English Translation
Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 12 Context
1 These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the... Focus ↗
2 You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave w... Focus ↗
3 Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the... Focus ↗
4 Do not so to the Lord your God (Elohim). Focus ↗
5 But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God (Elohim), a... Focus ↗
6 And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your good... Focus ↗
7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God (Elohim), with joy in e... Focus ↗
8 You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right t... Focus ↗
9 For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God (Elohim) is giving you. Focus ↗
10 But when you have gone over Jordan and are living in the land which the Lord your God (Elohim) is gi... Focus ↗
11 Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God (Elohim) as the resting-place for his nam... Focus ↗
12 And you will be glad before the Lord your God (Elohim), you and your sons and your daughters, and yo... Focus ↗
13 Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:
14 But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be of... Focus ↗
15 Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your town... Focus ↗
16 But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water. Focus ↗
17 In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil,... Focus ↗
18 But they will be your food before the Lord your God (Elohim) in the place of his selection, where yo... Focus ↗
19 See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land. Focus ↗
20 When the Lord your God (Elohim) makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I wi... Focus ↗
21 If the place marked out by the Lord your God (Elohim) as the resting-place for his name is far away... Focus ↗
22 It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it. Focus ↗
23 But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use... Focus ↗
24 Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water. Focus ↗
25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you d... Focus ↗
26 But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place wh... Focus ↗
27 Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God (Elohim)... Focus ↗
28 Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for... Focus ↗
29 When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God (E... Focus ↗
30 After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought... Focus ↗
31 Do not so to the Lord your God (Elohim): for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by... Focus ↗
32 You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing fr... Focus ↗