Deuteronomy 12:7

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Deuteronomy 12:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

6 To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

7 There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

8 You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.

9 For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.

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Deuteronomy 12:18

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Deuteronomy 14:23

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Deuteronomy 14:26

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Deuteronomy 15:20

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Deuteronomy 12:12

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Deuteronomy 16:11

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Deuteronomy 16:12

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Deuteronomy 16:13

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Deuteronomy 16:14

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Deuteronomy 16:15

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Deuteronomy 26:11

So you shall rejoice—you, the Levite, and the foreigner dwelling among you—in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.

Deuteronomy 27:7

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