Deuteronomy 12
- 1These are the laws and judgments, which you shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
- 2You shall completely destroy all the places, in which the nations which you shall possess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:
- 3And you shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the carved idols of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
- 4You shall not do so to the Lord your God.
- 5But to the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even to his home shall you seek, and there you shall come:
- 6And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and gift offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks:
- 7And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
- 8You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes.
- 9For you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God gives you.
- 10But when you go over Jordan, and live in the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies all around, so that you live in safety.
- 11Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to be there. There you shall bring all that I command you, your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the gift offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the Lord:
- 12And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your gates. Since as he has no part or inheritance with you.
- 13Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see:
- 14But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
- 15But you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatever your soul desires after, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the deer.
- 16Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the earth as water.
- 17You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herds or of your flock, or any of your vows which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or gift offering of your hand:
- 18But you must eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite that is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you put your hands to.
- 19Be careful that you do not abandon the Levite as long as you live on the earth.
- 20When the Lord your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh. You may eat flesh, whatever your soul desires after.
- 21If the place which the Lord your God has chosen to put his name there be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatever your soul desires after.
- 22Even as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so you shall eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
- 23Only be sure that you do not eat the blood. For the blood is the life. You may not eat the life with the flesh.
- 24You shall not eat it. You shall pour it on the earth as water.
- 25You shall not eat it. That it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.
- 26Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which the Lord shall choose:
- 27And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God: and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, and you shall eat the flesh.
- 28Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you for ever, when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
- 29When the Lord your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go to possess them, and you succeed them, and live in their land.
- 30Be careful that you are not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before you. That you do not ask after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? Even so I will do likewise.
- 31You shall not do so to the Lord your God. For they have done to their gods every disgusting thing that the Lord hates. For even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
- 32Whatever thing I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add to it, or diminish from it.
What changed from the KJV
GIGAKJV is a modern English revision of the King James Version. The comparison below uses the project's KJV text in the later 1769 tradition and marks, word by word, each verse of Deuteronomy 12 where the wording differs: struck-through words are the KJV's, highlighted words are GIGAKJV's.
KJVThese 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.
GIGAKJVThese are the laws and judgments, which you shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
KJVYe 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:
GIGAKJVYou shall completely destroy all the places, in which the nations which you shall possess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:
KJVAnd 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.
GIGAKJVAnd you shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the carved idols of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
KJVYe shall not do so unto the Lord your God.
GIGAKJVYou shall not do so to the Lord your God.
KJVBut 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:
GIGAKJVBut to the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even to his home shall you seek, and there you shall come:
KJVAnd 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:
GIGAKJVAnd there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and gift offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks:
KJVAnd 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.
GIGAKJVAnd there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
KJVYe shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
GIGAKJVYou shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes.
KJVFor ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth you.
GIGAKJVFor you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God gives you.
KJVBut 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;
GIGAKJVBut when you go over Jordan, and live in the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies all around, so that you live in safety.
KJVThen 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:
GIGAKJVThen there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to be there. There you shall bring all that I command you, your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the gift offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the Lord:
KJVAnd 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.
GIGAKJVAnd you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your gates. Since as he has no part or inheritance with you.
KJVTake heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
GIGAKJVBe careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see:
KJVBut 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.
GIGAKJVBut in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
KJVNotwithstanding 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.
GIGAKJVBut you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatever your soul desires after, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the deer.
KJVOnly ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
GIGAKJVOnly you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the earth as water.
KJVThou 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:
GIGAKJVYou may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herds or of your flock, or any of your vows which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or gift offering of your hand:
KJVBut 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.
GIGAKJVBut you must eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite that is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you put your hands to.
KJVTake heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
GIGAKJVBe careful that you do not abandon the Levite as long as you live on the earth.
KJVWhen 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.
GIGAKJVWhen the Lord your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh. You may eat flesh, whatever your soul desires after.
KJVIf 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.
GIGAKJVIf the place which the Lord your God has chosen to put his name there be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatever your soul desires after.
KJVEven as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
GIGAKJVEven as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so you shall eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
KJVOnly be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
GIGAKJVOnly be sure that you do not eat the blood. For the blood is the life. You may not eat the life with the flesh.
KJVThou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
GIGAKJVYou shall not eat it. You shall pour it on the earth as water.
KJVThou 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.
GIGAKJVYou shall not eat it. That it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.
KJVOnly thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the Lord shall choose:
GIGAKJVOnly your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which the Lord shall choose:
KJVAnd 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.
GIGAKJVAnd you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God: and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, and you shall eat the flesh.
KJVObserve 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.
GIGAKJVObserve and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you for ever, when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
KJVWhen 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;
GIGAKJVWhen the Lord your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go to possess them, and you succeed them, and live in their land.
KJVTake 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.
GIGAKJVBe careful that you are not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before you. That you do not ask after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? Even so I will do likewise.
KJVThou 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.
GIGAKJVYou shall not do so to the Lord your God. For they have done to their gods every disgusting thing that the Lord hates. For even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
KJVWhat thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
GIGAKJVWhatever thing I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add to it, or diminish from it.
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