Deuteronomy 15:20

20 Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose.

Deuteronomy 15:20 in Other Translations

20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.

20 You shall eat it, you and your household, before the LORD your God year by year at the place that the LORD will choose.

20 Instead, you and your family must eat these animals in the presence of the LORD your God each year at the place he chooses.

20 These are for you to eat every year, you and your family, in the Presence of God, your God, at the place that God designates for worship.

20 Each year you and your family are to eat it before the Lord your God in the place the Lord chooses.

Deuteronomy 15:20 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 15:20

Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God, year by year
Which, if understood of male firstlings, as in connection with the preceding verse, only priests might eat of them, being devoted to the Lord; so Jarchi says, to the priest he speaks; but if this respects the Israelites in common, then they must be understood either of female firstlings or second firstlings, which the people voluntarily separated, and which they were not to eat in their own houses,

but in the place which the Lord shall choose,
which was the city of Jerusalem; see ( Deuteronomy 12:5 ) ,

thou and thy household;
the household of the priest, as Aben Ezra interprets it; but if it designs the same as in ( Deuteronomy 12:17 Deuteronomy 12:18 ) , then the Israelites and their families are meant.

Deuteronomy 15:20 In-Context

18 Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

19 Set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male of your herds and flocks. Do not put the firstborn of your cows to work, and do not shear the firstborn of your sheep.

20 Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose.

21 If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

22 You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer.

Cross References

• 1. S Leviticus 7:15-18; Dt 12:5-7,17,18; Deuteronomy 14:23