Lexham English Bible

Deuteronomy 12:9-13 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

9. For you have not come up to now to the resting place and to the inheritance that Yahweh your God is giving to you.

10. But you will cross the Jordan, and you will settle in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give rest to you from all your enemies from all around, and you will live securely,

11. and then at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, to let his name dwell there, there you shall bring all the things I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and your donations, and all of the choice things, your votive gifts that you vow to Yahweh.

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,