Deuteronomy 16:5

5 You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 16:5 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 16:5

Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates,
&c.] Or cities, as the Targum of Jonathan, so called because they usually had gates to them, in which public affairs were transacted; but in none of these, only in the city of Jerusalem, the place the Lord chose, might they kill the passover and eat it, and other passover offerings:

which the Lord thy God giveth thee;
in the land of Canaan, and which land was given them of God.

Deuteronomy 16:5 In-Context

3 You must not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship-because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry-so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

4 No yeast is to be found anywhere in your territory for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day is to remain until morning.

5 You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns the Lord your God is giving you.

6 You must only sacrifice the Passover animal at the place where the Lord your God chooses to have His name dwell. [Do this] in the evening as the sun sets at the [same] time [of day] you departed from Egypt.

7 You are to cook and eat [it] in the place the Lord your God chooses, and you are to return to your tents in the morning.