Deuteronomy 12:8

You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

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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

7There you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

9for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God gives you.

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Cross References

Joshua 3:9Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God.”

Judges 17:6In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

Proverbs 21:2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts.

Acts 7:42But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices 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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