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Deuteronomy Chapter 12

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Deuteronomy 12 commands Israel, once they enter the land, to destroy all the places where the nations served their gods and to overthrow their altars and images, and not to worship the Lord in that way. Instead they are to bring their offerings to the place the Lord will choose to put His name, and to rejoice there before Him with their households and the Levites. The chapter closes by warning them not to enquire after the gods of those nations or to add to or diminish from what the Lord commands.

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(1) These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
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Deuteronomy 4:1Deuteronomy 4:2Deuteronomy 4:5Deuteronomy 4:45Deuteronomy 6:1Deuteronomy 6:2Deuteronomy 12:19Deuteronomy 4:19I Kings 8:40Job 7:1Psalms 104:33Psalms 146:2

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Deuteronomy 4:1Deuteronomy 30:16Judges 11:24Ezekiel 5:6Leviticus 18:5Deuteronomy 8:1

(2) Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
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Deuteronomy 7:5Deuteronomy 7:25Deuteronomy 7:26Exodus 23:24Exodus 34:12Exodus 34:13Exodus 34:14Exodus 34:15Exodus 34:16Exodus 34:17Numbers 33:51Numbers 33:52

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Judges 10:6Ezekiel 17:24Ezekiel 6:3II Kings 16:4II Chronicles 28:4Isaiah 41:19

(3) And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
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Numbers 33:52Judges 2:2II Chronicles 31:1I Kings 15:13II Kings 18:4II Kings 23:14II Chronicles 14:3II Chronicles 19:3II Chronicles 34:3Jeremiah 17:2Micah 5:14Exodus 23:13

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Deuteronomy 7:5Judges 10:6Exodus 34:13II Chronicles 34:4Exodus 23:24Deuteronomy 7:25

(4) Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
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Deuteronomy 12:30Deuteronomy 12:31Deuteronomy 16:21Deuteronomy 16:22Deuteronomy 20:18Leviticus 20:23

(5) But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
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Deuteronomy 12:11Deuteronomy 16:2Deuteronomy 26:2Joshua 9:27Joshua 18:1I Kings 8:16I Kings 8:20I Kings 8:29I Kings 14:21I Chronicles 22:1II Chronicles 7:12Psalms 78:68

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Zephaniah 2:3

(6) And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
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Leviticus 17:3Leviticus 17:4Leviticus 17:5Leviticus 17:6Leviticus 17:7Leviticus 17:8Leviticus 17:9Ezekiel 20:40Deuteronomy 12:17Deuteronomy 14:22Deuteronomy 14:23Deuteronomy 14:24

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:17II Chronicles 29:31II Chronicles 29:35

(7) And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
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Deuteronomy 12:18Deuteronomy 14:23Deuteronomy 14:26Deuteronomy 15:20Isaiah 23:18Deuteronomy 12:12Deuteronomy 16:11Deuteronomy 16:12Deuteronomy 16:13Deuteronomy 16:14Deuteronomy 16:15Deuteronomy 26:11

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Jeremiah 20:14

(8) Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
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Numbers 15:39Judges 17:6Judges 21:25Proverbs 21:2Amos 5:25Acts 7:42

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Philippians 4:8Leviticus 11:42Isaiah 22:16

(9) For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
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Deuteronomy 25:19I Kings 8:56I Chronicles 23:25Micah 2:10Hebrews 4:8Hebrews 4:9I Peter 1:3I Peter 1:4

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Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Deuteronomy 12:10Deuteronomy 25:19Numbers 26:54

(10) But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
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Deuteronomy 3:27Deuteronomy 4:22Deuteronomy 9:1Deuteronomy 11:31Joshua 3:17Joshua 4:1Joshua 4:12Deuteronomy 33:12Deuteronomy 33:28Leviticus 25:18Leviticus 25:19I Samuel 7:12

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Deuteronomy 25:19Joshua 1:15Joshua 21:44I Chronicles 22:9Psalms 119:130Proverbs 17:4

(11) Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
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Deuteronomy 12:5Deuteronomy 12:14Deuteronomy 12:18Deuteronomy 12:21Deuteronomy 12:26Deuteronomy 14:23Deuteronomy 15:20Deuteronomy 16:2Deuteronomy 16:3Deuteronomy 16:4Deuteronomy 16:5Deuteronomy 16:6

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Deuteronomy 12:6Numbers 29:39I Kings 8:64II Chronicles 29:31Exodus 29:28I Chronicles 29:21

(12) And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
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Deuteronomy 12:7Deuteronomy 14:26Deuteronomy 14:27I Kings 8:66II Chronicles 29:36II Chronicles 30:21II Chronicles 30:22II Chronicles 30:23II Chronicles 30:24II Chronicles 30:25II Chronicles 30:26Nehemiah 8:10

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Deuteronomy 14:27Deuteronomy 14:29Joshua 19:9Revelation 8:12Deuteronomy 12:18Deuteronomy 16:11

(13) Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
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Deuteronomy 12:6Leviticus 17:2Leviticus 17:3Leviticus 17:4Leviticus 17:5I Kings 12:28I Kings 12:29I Kings 12:30I Kings 12:31I Kings 12:32I Kings 15:34II Chronicles 15:17

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:17Amos 5:22Leviticus 17:5

(14) But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
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Deuteronomy 12:5Deuteronomy 12:11Psalms 5:7Psalms 9:11II Corinthians 5:19Hebrews 10:19Hebrews 10:20Hebrews 10:21Hebrews 10:22Hebrews 13:15

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39I Samuel 2:28II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:17Amos 5:22

(15) Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
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Deuteronomy 14:26Deuteronomy 12:21Deuteronomy 12:22Deuteronomy 14:5Deuteronomy 15:22Deuteronomy 15:23Leviticus 17:3Leviticus 17:4Leviticus 17:5

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Philippians 4:8Leviticus 20:25Deuteronomy 15:22Leviticus 5:2Deuteronomy 30:20Leviticus 11:32

(16) Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
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Deuteronomy 12:23Deuteronomy 12:24Deuteronomy 15:23Genesis 9:4Leviticus 7:26Leviticus 7:27Leviticus 17:10Leviticus 17:11Leviticus 17:12Leviticus 17:13Acts 15:29I Timothy 4:4

(17) Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
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Deuteronomy 12:6Deuteronomy 12:11Deuteronomy 14:22Deuteronomy 14:23Deuteronomy 14:24Deuteronomy 14:25Deuteronomy 14:26Deuteronomy 14:27Deuteronomy 14:28Deuteronomy 14:29Deuteronomy 26:12Deuteronomy 26:14

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Deuteronomy 12:6Deuteronomy 14:23Numbers 29:39I Kings 8:64Nehemiah 13:5Deuteronomy 11:14

(18) But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
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Deuteronomy 12:11Deuteronomy 12:12Deuteronomy 12:19Deuteronomy 14:23Deuteronomy 15:20Deuteronomy 12:7Psalms 32:11Psalms 68:3Proverbs 3:17Isaiah 12:3Acts 2:46Acts 16:34

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Deuteronomy 5:14Deuteronomy 16:11Deuteronomy 16:14Exodus 20:10Deuteronomy 12:12Luke 12:53

(19) Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
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Deuteronomy 14:27Deuteronomy 14:28Deuteronomy 14:29II Chronicles 11:13II Chronicles 11:14II Chronicles 31:4II Chronicles 31:5II Chronicles 31:6II Chronicles 31:7II Chronicles 31:8II Chronicles 31:9II Chronicles 31:10

(20) When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
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I Chronicles 4:10Deuteronomy 11:24Deuteronomy 19:8Genesis 15:18Genesis 15:19Genesis 15:20Genesis 15:21Genesis 28:14Exodus 23:31Exodus 34:24Deuteronomy 12:15Genesis 31:30

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Philippians 4:8Deuteronomy 30:20Deuteronomy 12:15Revelation 3:18Leviticus 11:42Deuteronomy 14:26

(21) If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
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Deuteronomy 12:5Deuteronomy 12:11Deuteronomy 14:23Deuteronomy 14:24Deuteronomy 16:6Deuteronomy 16:11Deuteronomy 26:2Exodus 20:24I Kings 14:21II Chronicles 12:13Ezra 6:12

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Philippians 4:8Deuteronomy 12:15Ezekiel 34:8Revelation 21:13Leviticus 11:42Leviticus 27:32

(22) Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
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Deuteronomy 12:15Deuteronomy 12:16

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Leviticus 20:25Deuteronomy 15:22Leviticus 5:2Leviticus 11:47Deuteronomy 12:15Leviticus 7:19

(23) Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
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Genesis 9:4Leviticus 3:16Leviticus 3:17Leviticus 17:11Leviticus 17:14Matthew 20:28Revelation 5:9

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Deuteronomy 30:20Revelation 3:18

(24) Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
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Deuteronomy 12:16Deuteronomy 15:23

(25) Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 12:28Deuteronomy 4:40Deuteronomy 5:16Psalms 112:2Isaiah 3:10Isaiah 48:18Isaiah 48:19Ezekiel 33:25Deuteronomy 6:18Deuteronomy 13:18Exodus 15:26I Kings 11:38

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II Kings 4:26

(26) Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
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Deuteronomy 12:6Deuteronomy 12:11Deuteronomy 12:18Numbers 5:9Numbers 5:10Numbers 18:19Genesis 28:20Leviticus 22:18Leviticus 22:19Leviticus 22:20Leviticus 22:21Leviticus 22:22

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Jeremiah 44:25

(27) And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
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Leviticus 1:5Leviticus 1:9Leviticus 1:13Leviticus 17:11Leviticus 4:30

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 29:31Leviticus 17:5Deuteronomy 12:6I Samuel 10:8

(28) Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
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Deuteronomy 24:8Exodus 34:11Leviticus 19:37II Chronicles 7:17Nehemiah 1:5Psalms 105:45Ezekiel 37:24John 15:3John 15:10John 15:14

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Genesis 4:7II Kings 4:26Jonah 4:9

(29) When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
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Deuteronomy 9:3Deuteronomy 19:1Exodus 23:23Joshua 23:4Psalms 78:55

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Deuteronomy 7:1Deuteronomy 11:10Deuteronomy 11:29Deuteronomy 23:20Deuteronomy 28:21Deuteronomy 28:63

(30) Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
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Deuteronomy 7:16Exodus 23:31Exodus 23:32Exodus 23:33Leviticus 18:3Numbers 33:52Judges 2:2Judges 2:3II Kings 17:15Psalms 106:34Psalms 106:35Psalms 106:36

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Judges 10:6Joshua 24:15II Kings 19:18Isaiah 37:19Exodus 20:23Exodus 34:15

(31) Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
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Deuteronomy 12:4Deuteronomy 18:9Exodus 23:2Leviticus 18:3Leviticus 18:26Leviticus 18:27Leviticus 18:28Leviticus 18:29Leviticus 18:30II Kings 17:15II Kings 17:16II Kings 17:17

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Judges 10:6Exodus 34:16Exodus 20:23Exodus 34:15Numbers 25:2Deuteronomy 6:14

(32) What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
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Deuteronomy 4:2Deuteronomy 13:18Joshua 1:7Proverbs 30:6Matthew 28:20Revelation 22:18Revelation 22:19

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Deuteronomy 4:2

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