Deuteronomy 12:13
Good News Translation
You are not to offer your sacrifices wherever you choose;

New Revised Standard Version
Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place you happen to see.

New American Bible
Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings in any place you like,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see:

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Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see:

Deuteronomy 12:6 And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims, the tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of your herds and your sheep.

Leviticus 17:2-5 Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel, saying to them: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded, saying: . . .

1 Kings 12:28-32 And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. . . .

1 Kings 15:34 And he did evil before the Lord, and walked in the ways of Jeroboam, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.

2 Chronicles 15:17 But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

Context
One Place for Worship
12There shall you feast before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite that dwelleth in your cities. For he hath no other part and possession among you. 13Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see:14But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer sacrifices, and shalt do all that I command thee.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

Deuteronomy 12:11
In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:14
But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer sacrifices, and shalt do all that I command thee.

Joshua 22:29
God keep us from any such wickedness that we should revolt from the Lord, and leave off following his steps, by building an altar to offer holocausts, and sacrifices, and victims, beside the altar of the Lord our God, which is erected before his tabernacle.

1 Kings 3:2
But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: for there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until that day.

Deuteronomy 12:12
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