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Firstborn Animals

Deuteronomy 15:20

In 11 translations

BSB
Each year you and your household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose.
KJV
Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
WEB
You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
ASV
Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou and thy household.
LSV
you eat it before your God YHWH year by year, in the place which YHWH chooses, you and your house.
YLT
before Jehovah thy God thou dost eat it year by year, in the place which Jehovah doth choose, thou and thy house.
DBY
Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy God, year by year, in the place which Jehovah will choose, thou and thy household.Elohim
DRC
In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year, in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.
GNV
Thou shalt eate it before the Lord thy God yeere by yeere, in the place which the Lord shall chose, both thou, and thine household.
JPS
Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
LXXE
Thou shalt eat it before the Lord year by year in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy house.

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Original-language editions

WLC
לִפְנֵי֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֤יךָ תֹאכֲלֶ֨נּוּ֙ שָׁנָ֣ה בְשָׁנָ֔ה בַּמָּק֖וֹם אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה אַתָּ֖ה וּבֵיתֶֽךָ׃
LXX-Br
Ἔναντι Κυρίου φαγῇ αὐτὸ ἐνιαυτὸν ἐξ ἐνιαυτοῦ ἐν τῷ τόπῳ ᾧ ἐὰν ἐκλέξηται Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου, σὺ καὶ ὁ οἶκός σου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 12:17Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
  • Deuteronomy 14:23And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may…
  • Deuteronomy 12:5–7Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go. To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and…

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