Search results for: Deuteronomy 12:23

Deuteronomy 12:23 (GNT)

Only do not eat meat with blood still in it, for the life is in the blood, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

Deuteronomy 12:2 (GNT)

In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees.

Deuteronomy 12:20 (GNT)

“When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised, you may eat meat whenever you want to.

Deuteronomy 12:21 (GNT)

If the one place of worship is too far away, then, whenever you wish, you may kill any of the cattle or sheep that the Lord has given you, and you may eat the meat at home, as I have told you.

Deuteronomy 12:22 (GNT)

Anyone, ritually clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as he would eat the meat of deer or antelope.

Deuteronomy 12:24 (GNT)

Do not use the blood for food; instead, pour it out on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:25 (GNT)

If you obey this command, the Lord will be pleased, and all will go well for you and your descendants.

Deuteronomy 12:26 (GNT)

Take to the one place of worship your offerings and the gifts that you have promised the Lord .

Deuteronomy 12:27 (GNT)

Offer there the sacrifices which are to be completely burned on the Lord 's altar. Also offer those sacrifices in which you eat the meat and pour the blood out on the altar.

Deuteronomy 12:28 (GNT)

Obey faithfully everything that I have commanded you, and all will go well for you and your descendants forever, because you will be doing what is right and what pleases the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 12:29 (GNT)

“The Lord your God will destroy the nations as you invade their land, and you will occupy it and settle there.

Deuteronomy 12:1 (GNT)

“Here are the laws that you are to obey as long as you live in the land that the Lord , the God of your ancestors, is giving you. Listen to them!

Deuteronomy 12:3 (GNT)

Tear down their altars and smash their sacred stone pillars to pieces. Burn their symbols of the goddess Asherah and chop down their idols, so that they will never again be worshiped at those places.

Deuteronomy 12:4 (GNT)

“Do not worship the Lord your God in the way that these people worship their gods.

Deuteronomy 12:5 (GNT)

Out of the territory of all your tribes the Lord will choose the one place where the people are to come into his presence and worship him.

There you are to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, the gifts that you promise to the Lord , your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep.

Deuteronomy 12:7 (GNT)

There, in the presence of the Lord your God, who has blessed you, you and your families will eat and enjoy the good things that you have worked for.

Deuteronomy 12:8 (GNT)

“When that time comes, you must not do as you have been doing. Until now you have all been worshiping as you please,

Deuteronomy 12:9 (GNT)

because you have not yet entered the land that the Lord your God is giving you, where you can live in peace.

Deuteronomy 12:10 (GNT)

When you cross the Jordan River, the Lord will let you occupy the land and live there. He will keep you safe from all your enemies, and you will live in peace.

Deuteronomy 12:11 (GNT)

The Lord will choose a single place where he is to be worshiped, and there you must bring to him everything that I have commanded: your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, and those special gifts that you have promised to the Lord .