Deuteronomy 15:20

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You and your household must eat them annually before the LORD your God in the place he chooses.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 12:5-7 : 5 But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there. 6 And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 7 Both you and your families must feast there before the LORD your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.
  • Deut 12:17 : 17 You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.
  • Deut 14:23 : 23 In the presence of the LORD your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always.

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  • Deut 12:17-18
    2 verses
    83%

    17You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.

    18Only in the presence of the LORD your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the LORD your God in all the output of your labor.

  • Deut 16:5-7
    3 verses
    82%

    5You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you,

    6but you must sacrifice it in the evening in the place where he chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

    7You must cook and eat it in the place the LORD your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.

  • Deut 16:2
    81%

    2You must sacrifice the Passover animal(from the flock or the herd) to the LORD your God in the place where he chooses to locate his name.

  • Deut 12:5-7
    3 verses
    79%

    5But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

    6And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

    7Both you and your families must feast there before the LORD your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.

  • Deut 14:21-26
    6 verses
    79%

    21You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

    22The Offering of Tribute You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.

    23In the presence of the LORD your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always.

    24When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

    25you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the LORD your God chooses for himself.

    26Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and enjoy it.

  • Deut 15:21
    79%

    21If they have any kind of blemish– lameness, blindness, or anything else– you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 12:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    14for you may do so only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribal areas– there you may do everything I am commanding you.

    15Regulations for Profane Slaughter On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the LORD your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

  • Deut 12:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

    20The Sanctity of Blood When the LORD your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say,“I want to eat meat just as I please,” you may do so as you wish.

    21If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish.

  • Deut 15:19
    77%

    19Giving God the Best You must set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.

  • Num 18:31
    77%

    31And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.

  • Deut 12:25-27
    3 verses
    77%

    25You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.

    26Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the LORD will choose.

    27You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.

  • Deut 16:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the LORD your God in the place he chooses, for he will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do; so you will indeed rejoice!

    16Three times a year all your males must appear before the LORD your God in the place he chooses for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Shelters; and they must not appear before him empty-handed.

  • Num 18:10
    77%

    10You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.

  • Deut 27:7
    76%

    7Also you must offer fellowship offerings and eat them there, rejoicing before the LORD your God.

  • Lev 19:25
    76%

    25Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 10:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13You must eat it in a holy place because it is your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the gifts of the LORD, for this is what I have been commanded.

    14Also, the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution offering you must eat in a ceremonially clean place, you and your sons and daughters with you, for they have been given as your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the peace offering sacrifices of the Israelites.

  • Exod 12:5
    75%

    5Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

  • Deut 26:2
    75%

    2you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.

  • Deut 12:11
    75%

    11Then you must come to the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you– your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.

  • Num 18:13
    75%

    13And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the LORD will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

  • Deut 16:11
    74%

    11You shall rejoice before him– you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you– in the place where the LORD chooses to locate his name.

  • Exod 12:46
    74%

    46It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

  • Num 15:3
    74%

    3and you make an offering by fire to the LORD from the herd or from the flock(whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the LORD,

  • Exod 13:10
    74%

    10So you must keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.

  • Exod 23:14
    74%

    14“Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me.

  • Exod 23:19
    74%

    19The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Num 28:19
    73%

    19“‘But you must offer to the LORD an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished.

  • Num 18:18
    73%

    18And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours.

  • Exod 23:16
    73%

    16“You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.

  • Lev 19:5
    73%

    5Eating the Peace Offering“‘When you sacrifice a peace offering sacrifice to the LORD, you must sacrifice it so that it is accepted for you.

  • Num 15:19
    73%

    19and you eat some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering to the LORD.

  • Lev 25:7
    73%

    7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.

  • Exod 29:31
    73%

    31“You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook its meat in a holy place.

  • Lev 22:30
    73%

    30On that very day it must be eaten; you must not leave any part of it over until morning. I am the LORD.