Deuteronomy 12:6

Translations

Modern

To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Traditional

And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:

Literal

And you shall bring there your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the contributions of your hands, and your vowed offerings, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and your flocks.

Latin

…et offeretis in loco illo holocausta et victimas vestras, decimas et primitias manuum vestrarum, et vota atque donaria, primogenita boum et ovium.

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English

To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Notes

Deuteronomy 12:6

All of the offerings listed here show thanksgiving, fellowship, and loyalty to the Lord.

In a covenant relationship, a vassal (a subject or servant) gave tribute to a great king. This was a way to show submission and to promise faithfulness (see study note on 1:31).

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Offering Voluntary Sacrifice Family: Religion of The Free-Will offerings: General Scriptures Concerning Heave-Offering: To be Brought to God's House Offerings: Heave in Certain Instances This offering Was Brought to the Tabernacle, or Temple Offerings: Required to Be: Brought to the Place Appointed of God Sacrifices: To be Brought to the Place Appointed by God Tabernacle: All offerings to be Made At Tabernacle: Causes Tried At Tabernacle: Offerings Brought To The Burnt offering: Required to Be: Presented at the Door of the Tabernacle Tithe: A Second: Or Its Value Yearly Brought to the Tabernacle and Eaten Tithes: Mosaic Laws Instituting Vows: All Things Dedicated By, to be Brought to the Tabernacle Vows: Things offered In, to be Brought to the Tabernacle or Temple Worship: Commanded

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