Deuteronomy 12:14

14 {but only} at the place that Yahweh will choose among one of your tribes; there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all [the things] that I [am] commanding you.

Deuteronomy 12:14 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 12:14

But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy
tribes
Which tribe is not named, nor what place in that tribe; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 12:5),

there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings;
on the altar of burnt offering there placed:

and there shalt thou do all that I command thee;
respecting sanctuary service, and particularly those things observed in ( Deuteronomy 12:6 ) .

Deuteronomy 12:14 In-Context

12 And you shall rejoice {before} Yahweh your God, you and your sons and your daughters and your slaves and your slave women and the Levite who [is] in your {towns}, because there is not for him a plot of ground and an inheritance with you.

13 "Take care for yourself so that you do not offer your burnt offerings at [just] any place that you happen to see,

14 {but only} at the place that Yahweh will choose among one of your tribes; there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all [the things] that I [am] commanding you.

15 "But {whenever you desire} you may slaughter, and you may eat meat according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you in all [of] your {towns}; the unclean and the clean may eat it [just] as [they would] the gazelle and as the deer.

16 Only the blood you must not eat, [but] on the ground you must pour it like water.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "but [only] if"