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Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 12

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Deuteronomy 12 NASB - New American Standard BibleDeuteronomy 12 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 12 of Deuteronomy—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ “These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess [a]1as long as you live on the [b]earth.
  2. You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the 2high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
  3. 3You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their [c]Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and 4obliterate their name from that place.
  4. You shall not act like this toward the LORD your God.
  5. 5But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the LORD your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.
  6. There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, 6your tithes, the [d]contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.
  7. There also you and your households shall eat before the LORD your God, and 7rejoice in all [e]your undertakings in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
  8. ¶ “You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes;
  9. for you have not as yet come to 8the resting place and the 9inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.
  10. When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and 10He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security,
  11. 11then it shall come about that the place in which the LORD your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the [f]contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the LORD.
  12. And you shall 12rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the 13Levite who is within your gates, since 14he has no portion or inheritance with you.
  13. ¶ “15Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see,
  14. but in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
  15. ¶ “16However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, [g]whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of 17the gazelle and the deer.
  16. 18Only you shall not eat the blood; 19you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
  17. 20You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the [h]contribution of your hand.
  18. But 21you shall eat them before the LORD your God in 22the place which the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female servants, and the 23Levite who is within your gates; and you shall 24rejoice before the LORD your God in all [i]your undertakings.
  19. 25Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite [j]as long as you live in your land.
  20. ¶ “When the LORD your God extends your border 26as He has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because [k]you desire to eat meat, then you may eat meat, [l]whatever you desire.
  21. If the place which the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates [m]whatever you desire.
  22. Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
  23. Only be sure 27not to eat the blood, for the blood is the [n]life, and you shall not eat the [o]life with the flesh.
  24. You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
  25. You shall not eat it, so that 28it may be well with you and your sons after you, for 29you will be doing what is right in the sight of the LORD.
  26. 30Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.
  27. And 31you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and 32you shall eat the flesh.
  28. ¶ “Be careful to listen to all these words which I command you, so that 33it may be well with you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
  29. ¶ “When 34the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
  30. beware that you are not ensnared [p]to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?’
  31. 35You shall not behave thus toward the LORD your God, for every abominable act which the LORD hates they have done for their gods; for 36they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  32. ¶ “[q]37Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; 38you shall not add to nor take away from it.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit all the days
  2. ^ Lit ground
  3. ^ I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
  4. ^ Or heave offering
  5. ^ Lit the putting forth of your hand
  6. ^ Or heave offering
  7. ^ Lit in every desire of your soul
  8. ^ Lit heave offering
  9. ^ Lit the putting forth of your hand
  10. ^ Lit all your days upon your land
  11. ^ Lit your soul desires
  12. ^ Lit in every desire of your soul
  13. ^ Lit in every desire of your soul
  14. ^ Lit soul
  15. ^ Lit soul
  16. ^ Lit after them
  17. ^ Lit Everything that

REFERENCES

  1. ^ De 4:9, 10; 1Ki 8:40
  2. ^ 2Ki 16:4; 17:10, 11
  3. ^ Nu 33:52; De 7:5; Jg 2:2
  4. ^ Ex 23:13; Ps 16:4; Zc 13:2
  5. ^ Ex 20:24; De 12:11, 13; 2Ch 7:12; Ps 78:68
  6. ^ De 14:22
  7. ^ Le 23:40; De 12:12, 18; 14:26; 28:47; Ec 3:12, 13; 5:18-20
  8. ^ De 3:20; 25:19; Ps 95:11
  9. ^ De 4:21
  10. ^ Jos 11:23
  11. ^ De 12:5; 15:20; 16:2; 17:8; 18:6
  12. ^ De 12:7
  13. ^ De 12:18, 19; 26:11-13
  14. ^ De 10:9; 14:29
  15. ^ De 12:5, 11
  16. ^ De 12:20-23
  17. ^ De 12:22; 14:5; 15:22
  18. ^ Ge 9:4; Le 7:26; 17:10-12; 1Sa 14:33f; Ac 15:20, 29
  19. ^ De 15:23
  20. ^ De 12:26
  21. ^ De 14:23
  22. ^ De 12:5
  23. ^ De 12:12
  24. ^ De 12:7; Ec 3:12f; 5:18-20
  25. ^ De 14:27
  26. ^ Ge 15:18; De 11:24; 19:8
  27. ^ Ge 9:4; Le 17:10-14; De 12:16
  28. ^ De 4:40; Is 3:10
  29. ^ Ex 15:26; 1Ki 11:38
  30. ^ Nu 5:9f; 18:19; De 12:17
  31. ^ Le 1:9, 13
  32. ^ Le 3:1-17
  33. ^ De 4:40; Ec 8:12
  34. ^ Jos 23:4
  35. ^ De 9:5
  36. ^ Le 18:21; De 18:10; Ps 106:37; Je 32:35
  37. ^ De 4:2; Jos 1:7
  38. ^ Pr 30:6; Re 22:18

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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