Deuteronomy 12:8

You're not to do like we're doing here today. At the moment everyone does what they think is right,

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In The King James Version

Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

In Context

7That's where, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families will eat and celebrate everything you've worked for, because the Lord your God has blessed you.

9because you haven't arrived in the land you will own that the Lord your God is giving you and where you will be at peace.

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Cross References

Joshua 3:9So Joshua said to the Israelites, “Come here and listen to what the Lord your God has to say to you.

Judges 17:6At that time Israel didn't have a king— everyone did what they themselves thought was the right thing to do.

Proverbs 21:2People think that whatever they do is fine, but the Lord looks at their motives.

Acts 7:42So God gave up on them. He left them to their worship of the stars in the sky. This is what the prophets wrote, ‘Were you giving offerings or making sacrifices to me during the forty years in the desert, you Israelites?

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 →

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