Deuteronomy 12:25
Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
24Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:40Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.
Deuteronomy 6:18And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,
Deuteronomy 13:18So long as you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep all his orders which I give you today, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
1 Kings 11:38And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.
Ecclesiastes 2:26To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Isaiah 48:18If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 12:6-32
Where Sacrifices Must Be Offered; Ceremonial Observances; Cautions Against Idolatrous Rites. ( b. c. 1451.) 5 But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 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: 7 And there ye… Read the whole commentary →