¹¹ Then to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name^(A)—there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the Lord.^(B)

⁵ But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name^(A) there for his dwelling.^(B) To that place you must go;

²⁰ Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose.^(A)

⁶ If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the Lord will choose,^(A)

Law Courts

⁸ If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge^(A)—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults^(B)—take them to the place the Lord your God will choose.^(C)

²⁰ Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,^(A) but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”^(B)

²¹ “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming^(C) when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.^{(D) 22} You Samaritans worship what you do not know;^(E) we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.^{(F) 23} Yet a time is coming and has now come^(G) when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit^(H) and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

¹² “‘Go now to the place in Shiloh^(A) where I first made a dwelling^(B) for my Name,^(C) and see what I did^(D) to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.