◄ Deuteronomy 15:20 ►
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Good News Translation
Each year you and your family are to eat them in the LORD's presence at the one place of worship.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall eat it, you together with your household, in the presence of the LORD your God year by year at the place that the LORD will choose.

Contemporary English Version
Instead, each year you must take the first-born of these animals to the place where the LORD your God chooses to be worshiped. You and your family will sacrifice them to the LORD and then eat them as part of a sacred meal.

New American Bible
In the presence of the LORD, your God, you shall eat them year after year, you and your household, in the place that the LORD will choose.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year, in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year, in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.

Deuteronomy 12:5-7,17 But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it: . . .

Context
Firstborn Animals
19Of the firstlings, that come of thy herds and thy sheep, thou shalt sanctify to the Lord thy God whatsoever is of the male sex. Thou shalt not work with the firstling of a bullock, and thou shalt not shear the firstlings of thy sheep. 20In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year, in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.21But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any part disfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God.…
Cross References
Leviticus 7:15
And the flesh of it shall be eaten the same day: neither shall any of it remain until the morning.

Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

Deuteronomy 12:11
In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 14:23
And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, that his name may be called upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at all times.

Deuteronomy 15:19
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