Deuteronomy 12:6
New International Version
there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

New Living Translation
There you will bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your sacred offerings, your offerings to fulfill a vow, your voluntary offerings, and your offerings of the firstborn animals of your herds and flocks.

English Standard Version
and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

Berean Standard Bible
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.

King James Bible
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:

New King James Version
There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

New American Standard Bible
You shall bring there your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your vowed offerings, your voluntary offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

NASB 1995
“There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

NASB 1977
“And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your herd and of your flock.

Legacy Standard Bible
And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

Amplified Bible
There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive (pledged, vowed) offerings, your freewill (voluntary) offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

Christian Standard Bible
You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

American Standard Version
and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock:

English Revised Version
and thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Bring him your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, one-tenth of your income, your contributions, the offerings you vow to bring, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your cattle, sheep, and goats.

Good News Translation
There you are to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, the gifts that you promise to the LORD, your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep.

International Standard Version
Bring your burnt offerings there, along with your sacrifices, your tithes, your hand-carried gifts, your offerings in fulfillment of promises, your freely given offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Majority Standard Bible
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.

NET Bible
And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

New Heart English Bible
and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock:

Webster's Bible Translation
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 free-will-offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and of your flocks:

World English Bible
You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and have brought in there your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the raised-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock;

Young's Literal Translation
and hast brought in thither your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock;

Smith's Literal Translation
And bring there your burnt-offerings and your sacrifices, and your tenths, and the offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your voluntary gifts and the first-born of your cattle and your sheep.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of your herds and your sheep.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And you shall offer, in that place, your holocausts and victims, the tithes and first-fruits of your hands, and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of the cattle and of the sheep.

New American Bible
bringing your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and personal contributions, your votive and voluntary offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks.

New Revised Standard Version
bringing there your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and your donations, your votive gifts, your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And thither you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and your gift offerings of your hands and your vows and your freewill offerings and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And bring your burnt peace offerings there and your sacrifices and your tithes and the dedications of your hands and your vows and your offerings and the firstborn of your oxen and of your sheep:
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And ye shall carry thither your whole-burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your first-fruits, and your vowed-offerings, and your freewill-offerings, and your offerings of thanksgiving, the first-born of your herds, and of your flocks.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
One Place for Worship
5Instead, 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. 6To 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. 7There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.…

Cross References
Leviticus 17:8-9
Tell them that if anyone from the house of Israel or any foreigner living among them offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice / but does not bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD, that man must be cut off from his people.

Numbers 18:11-13
And this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat it. / I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits. / The firstfruits of everything in their land that they bring to the LORD will belong to you. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat them.

Deuteronomy 14:22-23
You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields. / And 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 learn to fear the LORD your God always.

Deuteronomy 26:2-4
you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name, / to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.” / Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God,

1 Samuel 1:24-25
Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. / And when they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli.

2 Chronicles 31:12
And they faithfully brought in the contributions, tithes, and dedicated gifts. Conaniah the Levite was the officer in charge of them, and his brother Shimei was second.

Nehemiah 10:37-39
Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor. / A priest of Aaron’s line is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God. / For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”

Psalm 66:13-15
I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You— / the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress. / I will offer You fatlings as burnt offerings, with the fragrant smoke of rams; I will offer bulls and goats. Selah

Isaiah 56:7
I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”

Ezekiel 20:40
For on My holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land. There I will accept them and will require your offerings and choice gifts, along with all your holy sacrifices.

Malachi 3:10
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.

Matthew 5:23-24
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, / leave your gift there before the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.

Matthew 23:23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

Luke 11:42
Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.

John 4:20-24
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.” / “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. / You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. ...


Treasury of Scripture

And thither you 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 firstborn of your herds and of your flocks:

your burnt

Leviticus 17:3-9
What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp, …

Ezekiel 20:40
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

tithes

Deuteronomy 12:17
Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

Deuteronomy 14:22-26
Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year…

Deuteronomy 15:19,20
All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep…

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Burnt Burnt-Offerings Contribution Hand Hearts Heave Heave-Offering Heave-Offerings Herd Herds Impulse Kine Lifted Oaths Offering Offerings Part Present Sacrifices Sheep Special Tenth Thither Tithes Votive Vowed Vows Wave
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Deuteronomy 12
1. Monuments of idolatry to be destroyed
4. The place of God's service to be kept
15. Blood is forbidden
17. Holy things must be eaten in the holy place
19. The Levite is not to be forsaken
20. Blood is again forbidden
26. and holy things must be eaten in the holy place
29. Idolatry is not to be enquired after














To that place
This phrase refers to the specific location that God would choose for His name to dwell, which is central to the worship practices of the Israelites. Historically, this would eventually be Jerusalem, where the Temple was built. The Hebrew word for "place" is "מָקוֹם" (makom), emphasizing a divinely appointed location, underscoring the importance of worshiping God in the manner and place He prescribes.

you are to bring
The act of bringing offerings signifies obedience and reverence. The Hebrew verb "בּוֹא" (bo) implies movement towards a destination, indicating that worship involves intentional action and commitment. This reflects the heart of worship as an active, deliberate pursuit of God’s presence.

your burnt offerings
Burnt offerings, or "עֹלוֹת" (olot), were sacrifices completely consumed by fire, symbolizing total dedication to God. This practice dates back to the patriarchs and signifies atonement and devotion. The complete burning of the offering represents the worshiper's desire to wholly surrender to God.

and sacrifices
The term "sacrifices" encompasses various offerings, including peace offerings and sin offerings. The Hebrew word "זְבָחִים" (zevachim) indicates acts of worship that involve giving up something valuable to honor God. Sacrifices were central to maintaining a covenant relationship with God, highlighting the cost of reconciliation and fellowship.

your tithes
Tithes, or "מַעֲשֵׂר" (ma'aser), were a tenth of one's produce or income dedicated to God. This practice acknowledges God’s provision and sovereignty over all resources. Tithing is an act of trust and gratitude, recognizing that everything belongs to God and supporting the community and priesthood.

and heave offerings
Heave offerings, "תְּרוּמוֹת" (terumot), were portions of offerings lifted up as a gift to God. This act symbolizes the elevation of the offering to a higher purpose, representing the worshiper's acknowledgment of God’s holiness and their desire to honor Him with their best.

the vow offerings
Vow offerings, or "נְדָרִים" (nedarim), were promises made to God, often in gratitude or supplication. These offerings reflect a personal commitment and the seriousness of making vows to God. They underscore the importance of integrity and faithfulness in one’s relationship with God.

and freewill offerings
Freewill offerings, "נְדָבוֹת" (nedavot), were voluntary gifts given out of love and devotion, not obligation. This reflects the heart of worship as a willing and joyful expression of gratitude towards God, emphasizing the personal nature of worship and generosity.

and the firstborn of your herds and flocks
The firstborn, "בְּכוֹר" (bekhor), were dedicated to God as a sign of trust and acknowledgment of His provision. Offering the firstborn signifies giving God the first and best, a principle that underscores the priority of God in the life of the believer. This practice also foreshadows the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus, the firstborn over all creation, who was given for the redemption of humanity.

(6) And thither ye shall bring . . . your tithes--i.e., what the Jews understand as the "second tithe;" on which see Deuteronomy 12:17.

Verse 6. - To the appointed place all their sacrificial gifts and offerings were to be brought, and there they were to keep their holy feasts. The gifts are classified in groups.

1. Burnt offerings and sacrifices, the two principal kinds of altar offerings, with which meal offerings and drink offerings were united (Numbers 15:4, etc.).

2. Tithes and heave offerings (cf. Leviticus 27:30-33; Numbers 18:21-24). The heave offerings are described as of your hand, either because offered by the offerer's own hand, or to indicate such gifts as were made off-hand (so to speak), voluntary offerings made in addition to the legal offerings from an immediate impulse of grateful emotion.

3. Vows and freewill offerings, sacrifices which were offered in consequence of vows or of spontaneous impulse (cf. Leviticus 7:16; Leviticus 22:21; Leviticus 23:38; Numbers 15:3; Numbers 29:39). . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
To that place
שָׁ֗מָּה (šām·māh)
Adverb | third person feminine singular
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

you are to bring
וַהֲבֵאתֶ֣ם (wa·hă·ḇê·ṯem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

your burnt offerings
עֹלֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ (‘ō·lō·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5930: Whole burnt offering

and sacrifices,
וְזִבְחֵיכֶ֔ם (wə·ziḇ·ḥê·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 2077: A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice

your tithes
מַעְשְׂרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם (ma‘·śə·rō·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 4643: Tenth part, tithe

and heave offerings,
תְּרוּמַ֣ת (tə·rū·maṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8641: Contribution, offering (for sacred uses)

your vow offerings
וְנִדְרֵיכֶם֙ (wə·niḏ·rê·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5088: A promise, a thing promised

and freewill offerings,
וְנִדְבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם (wə·niḏ·ḇō·ṯê·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5071: Spontaneity, spontaneous, a spontaneous, abundant gift

as well as the firstborn
וּבְכֹרֹ֥ת (ū·ḇə·ḵō·rōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1062: The firstling of man, beast, primogeniture

of your herds
בְּקַרְכֶ֖ם (bə·qar·ḵem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 1241: Beef cattle, ox, a herd

and flocks.
וְצֹאנְכֶֽם׃ (wə·ṣō·nə·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock


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