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Deuteronomy Chapter 12

Moses lays down certain laws and judgements

12:1 These [are] the statutes and judgments, which y’all shall observe to do in the land, which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here Elohimאלֹהֵי
In Hebrew grammatical construct a way of connecting noun-noun pairs. In english, we use “of”, but in Hebrew there are quite a few ways of doing this. של is usually used in place of “of” in Hebrew, but in this case, we modify the first word, with the suffix “ey” (which is what we do for plural words, which God’s name is in Torah), i.e. God of Abraham becomes Elohei Avraham. See Elohim for more info click here of your forefathers gives to y’all, to possess it, all the days that y’all live on the land.
12:2 Y’all shall completely destroy all the places, where the nationsהַגּוֹיִם‎
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here which y’all are driving away worshiped their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree
12:3 And y’all shall tear down their altars, and smash their pillars, and burn their groves with fire ; and y’all shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and destroy their names of them from that place.
12:4 Y’all shall not do so to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here.
12:5 But y’all shall seek the place which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there shall y’all seek His presence, and you shall go there.
12:6 And there y’all shall bring your burnt offerings there, and your feast-offerings, and your tithes, and the what you raised up with your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your cattle and of your flocks
12:7 And there y’all shall eat before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here, and y’all shall rejoice in all that y’all put your hand to, y’all and your households, with which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here has blessed y’all .
12:8 Y’all shall not do everything that we do here today, each man [doing] all that [is] right in his own eyes.
12:9 For y’all aren’t as yet come to the resting place and to the heritage, that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here gives you.
12:10 But [when] y’all cross over the Jordan, and live in the land that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here gives you to inherit, and [when] he gives you rest from all your enemies all around, so that y’all live in safety ;
12:11 Then it shall be that the place where YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here shall choose to cause His name to remain there ; there shall y’all bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your feast-offerings, your tithes, and what you raise up with your hands, and the your choicest of your vow offerings that y’all vow to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
12:12 And y’all shall rejoice before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here, y’all , and your sons, and your daughters, and your male slaves, and your slave-girls, and the Leviteלְוִי
lᵊvî Pronunciation: lay-vee-ee’ Jewish males who claim patrilineal descent from the Tribe of Levi. The Tribe of Levi descended from Levi, the third son of Jacob and Leah. The surname Halevi, which consists of the Hebrew definite article “ה” Ha- (‘the’) plus Levi (‘Levite’) is not conclusive regarding being a Levite; a titular use of HaLevi indicates being a Levite. The daughter of a Levite is a Bat Levi (Bat being Hebrew for ‘daughter’) For more info click here who [is] in your cities ; because he has no share and inheritance with you.
12:13 Beware for yourself that you not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see.
12:14 Rather only in the place which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here shall choose, among one of your tribes, there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and there you will do all that I command y’all .
12:15 Only with all the desire of your souls shall you sacrifice and eat meat within all your gates according to the blessing of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here which He has given y’all the unclean and the clean one may eat of it, like of the roebuck roebuck noun a male roe deer. ROE DEER – a small Eurasian deer which lacks a visible tail and has a reddish summer coat that turns grayish in winter., and as of the hart an adult male deer, especially a red deer over five years old. Old English heorot, heort, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hert and German Hirsch..
12:16 Only y’all shall not eat the blood ; y’all shall pour it on the earth like water.

Holy things to be eaten in holy place.


12:17 You may not eat the tithe within your gates, of your grain, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herds or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vowed, nor your freewill offerings, or heave offering of your hand
12:18 But you must eat them before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here in the place which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male slave, and your slave girl, and the Leviteלְוִי
lᵊvî Pronunciation: lay-vee-ee’ Jewish males who claim patrilineal descent from the Tribe of Levi. The Tribe of Levi descended from Levi, the third son of Jacob and Leah. The surname Halevi, which consists of the Hebrew definite article “ה” Ha- (‘the’) plus Levi (‘Levite’) is not conclusive regarding being a Levite; a titular use of HaLevi indicates being a Levite. The daughter of a Levite is a Bat Levi (Bat being Hebrew for ‘daughter’) For more infoclick here who [is] within your gates. And you will rejoice before YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here in all that you put your hands to.
12:19 Take heed to yourself that you forsake not the Leviteלְוִי
lᵊvî Pronunciation: lay-vee-ee’ Jewish males who claim patrilineal descent from the Tribe of Levi. The Tribe of Levi descended from Levi, the third son of Jacob and Leah. The surname Halevi, which consists of the Hebrew definite article “ה” Ha- (‘the’) plus Levi (‘Levite’) is not conclusive regarding being a Levite; a titular use of HaLevi indicates being a Levite. The daughter of a Levite is a Bat Levi (Bat being Hebrew for ‘daughter’) For more info click here as long as you live on the land.
12:20 When YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here shall enlarge your border, as He has promised you, and you will say, I will eat meat, because you desire to eat meat ; you may eat meat, whatever your heart desires.
12:21 If the place where YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here will chose to put His Name is too far from y’all , then you may slaughter of your cattle and of your flock, that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has given y’all , as I have commanded y’all, and you will eat in your cities whatever your heart desires.
12:22 Even as the roebuck roebuck noun a male roe deer. ROE DEER – a small Eurasian deer which lacks a visible tail and has a reddish summer coat that turns grayish in winter. and the hart an adult male deer, especially a red deer over five years old. Old English heorot, heort, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hert and German Hirsch. are eaten, so may you eat it, the unclean one and the clean shall eat it together.
12:23 Only be sure that don’t you eat the blood because the blood [is] the life ; and you may not eat the life with the meat.
12:24 You will not eat it; you will pour it on the ground like water.
12:25 You will not eat it in order that it may be well with y’all , and with your sons after y’all , when you will do what [is] right in the sight of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
12:26 Only your holy thingsקָדָשֶׁיךָ‎
Transliteration qōḏeš Pronunciation ko’-desh a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity:—consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (× most) holy (× day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary. For more info click here that you have, and your vow offerings, you will take, and go to the place that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here shall choose
12:27 And you will offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here and the blood of your feast offerings shall be poured on the altar of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here, and you will eat the flesh.
12:28 Guard and obey all these words which I command y’all , in order that it may be well with y’all , and with your sons after y’all forever, when you do [that which is] good and right in the eyes of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here.
12:29 When YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here shall cut down the nationsהַגּוֹיִם‎
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here from before y’all , where you go to possess them, and live in their land ;
12:30 Beware for yourself that you are not trapped by following after them,  they have been destroyed from before y’all ; and that you idon’t seek out after their gods, saying, How did these nations worship their gods ? Even so will I do the same.
12:31 You will not do so to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here for everything that is an abomination of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, that He hates, have they done to their gods ; for they have even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

In the Tanach this is verse 1 of chapter 13
12:32 The entire word that I command you, observe to do it you will not add to it, or take from it.

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      Amoraim designation of the scholars who were active from the period of the completion of the Minshnah (c. 200 C.E.) until the completion of the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud’s (end of the 4th and end of 5th centuries respectively).
    • Amora (Ahmorah)
      sayer, spokesman Term used originally for the “interpreter,” who communicated audibly to the assembled pupils the lessons of the rabbinic teacher. It was later applied as the generic term for the rabbis of the post-mishnaic period, whose activities were centered on the Mishnah. Even in that period the amora as teacher continued to employ amoraim […]
    • Etymology
      The history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing it’s development since it’s earliest recorded occurrence in athe language where it is found, by tracing it’s transmission from one langue to another, by identifying it cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language.
    • Abraham’s Bosom
      From the Encyclopaedia Judaica 2:165 Designation in the New Testament (Luke 16:22-31) of the abode of the blessed souls of pious and poor in the other world (compare IV Macc. 13:17 ; Matt. 8:11, where all three patriarchs Abraham אַבְרָהָם/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which […]
    • Netherworld
      From the Encyclopedia Judaica 12:996 Apart from the Isaiah 14:14-19 and Ezekiel 38:18 ff passages, the numerous biblical references to the netherworld are vague and inspired by Ancient Near Easter folklore. Several names are given to the abode of the dead, most common being Sheol always femmine and without the definite article - a sign […]

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