Verse 31

Deuteronomy 12:31

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31 Do not so to the Lord your God (Elohim): for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

Original Language Text

hebrew

לֹא תַעֲשֶׂ֣ה כֵ֔ן לַ/יהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֶ֑י/ךָ כִּי֩ כָּל תּוֹעֲבַ֨ת יְהוָ֜ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׂנֵ֗א עָשׂוּ֙ לֵ/אלֹ֣הֵי/הֶ֔ם כִּ֣י גַ֤ם אֶת בְּנֵי/הֶם֙ וְ/אֶת בְּנֹ֣תֵי/הֶ֔ם יִשְׂרְפ֥וּ בָ/אֵ֖שׁ לֵֽ/אלֹהֵי/הֶֽם

English Translation

You shall not do so to the Lord your God, for all the abominations that the Lord hates they have done to their gods; for they even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

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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: Focus ↗

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...

32 You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing fr... Focus ↗

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Book: Deuteronomy
Chapter: Chapter 12 (32 verses)
Version: Bible in Basic English

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