Deuteronomy 12:8

You do not do according to all that we are doing here today—each [doing] anything that is right in his own eyes—

Literal Standard Version

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

7and you have eaten there before your God YHWH, and have rejoiced in every putting forth of your hand, you and your households, with which your God YHWH has blessed you.

9for until now you have not come to the rest and to the inheritance which your God YHWH is giving to you.

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Cross References

Joshua 3:9And Joshua says to the sons of Israel, “Come near here, and hear the words of your God YHWH”;

Judges 17:6in those days there is no king in Israel, each does that which is right in his own eyes.

Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man [is] right in his own eyes, || And YHWH is pondering hearts.

Acts 7:42and God turned, and gave them up to do service to the host of Heaven, according as it has been written in the scroll of the Prophets: Did you offer slain beasts and sacrifices to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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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