Deuteronomy 12:18
Context12:18 Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he 1 chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites 2 in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor. 3
Deuteronomy 14:23
Context14:23 In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, 4 your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.
Deuteronomy 16:11
Context16:11 You shall rejoice before him 5 – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, 6 the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.
Deuteronomy 16:15-16
Context16:15 You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the Lord your God in the place he 7 chooses, for he 8 will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do; 9 so you will indeed rejoice! 16:16 Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him 10 empty-handed.
Deuteronomy 31:11
Context31:11 when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them 11 within their hearing.


[12:18] 1 tn Heb “the
[12:18] 2 tn See note at Deut 12:12.
[12:18] 3 tn Heb “in all the sending forth of your hands.”
[14:23] 4 tn This refers to wine in the early stages of fermentation. In its later stages it becomes wine (יַיִן, yayin) in its mature sense.
[16:11] 7 tn Heb “the
[16:15] 10 tn Heb “the
[16:15] 11 tn Heb “the
[16:15] 12 tn Heb “in all the work of your hands” (so NASB, NIV); NAB, NRSV “in all your undertakings.”