Instead, turn to the place the Lord your God chooses(A) from all your tribes to put his name for his dwelling and go there. You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions,[a] your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. You will eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice with your household in everything you do,[b] because the Lord your God has blessed you.

“You are not to do as we are doing here today; everyone is doing whatever seems right in his own sight.(B) Indeed, you have not yet come into the resting place(C) and the inheritance(D) the Lord your God is giving you. 10 When you cross the Jordan and live in the land the Lord your God is giving you to inherit,(E) and he gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you live in security, 11 then the Lord your God will choose the place to have his name dwell.(F) Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions,[c] and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord. 12 You will rejoice(G) before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your city gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.(H) 13 Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in all the sacred places you see. 14 You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I command you.

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Notas al pie

  1. 12:6 Lit and the contributions from your hands
  2. 12:7 Lit you put your hand to, also in v. 18
  3. 12:11 Lit tenth, the contributions from your hands

But you shall seek (A)the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation[a] there. There you shall go, and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, (B)your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the (C)firstborn of your herd and of your flock. And (D)there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and (E)you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

“You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, (F)everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes, for you have not as yet come to (G)the rest and to the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you. 10 But when (H)you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, (I)and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety, 11 then to (J)the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, (K)your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord. 12 And (L)you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since (M)he has no portion or inheritance with you. 13 (N)Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see, 14 but at (O)the place that the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.

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Notas al pie

  1. Deuteronomy 12:5 Or name as its habitation