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Deuteronomy 12:6
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the Israelites on the plains of Moab, directing them to centralize all worship at the single sanctuary God will choose from among the tribes.
The words — The text employs וַ/הֲבֵאתֶ֣ם (va./ha.ve.Tem), meaning "and you will bring," and תְּרוּמַ֣ת (te.ru.Mat), meaning "the contribution of," to command the physical transport of offerings.
The thread — This directive aligns with Deuteronomy 15:19 on setting apart firstborn males, Leviticus 17:3 on restricting slaughter to the tabernacle, and Leviticus 27:32 on tithing tenth animals as holy to the LORD.
Why it lands — The verse requires the consolidation of all sacrificial and tithal worship to one chosen location, demanding obedience to a unified sanctuary rather than decentralized altars.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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:
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 15:19 You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.
- Leviticus 17:3 ‘Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp or outside of it
- Leviticus 27:32 Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD.
- Numbers 18:15 The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.
- Deuteronomy 12:17 Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
- Deuteronomy 14:22 You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.
- Deuteronomy 26:2 you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,
- Ezekiel 20:40 For on My holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land. There I will accept them and will require your offerings and choice gifts, along with all your holy sacrifices.
- Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
- Malachi 3:10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.