Deuteronomy 12:5
Hebrew Bible
3 You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place. 4 You must not worship the Lord your God the way they worship. 5 But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there. 6 And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Deuteronomy 12:5
Septuagint
3 And you shall destroy their altars and break their pillars, and you shall cut down their sacred groves and burn their carved gods with fire, and you shall destroy their name from that place. 4 You shall not do so to the Lord your God. 5 But to the place that the Lord your God may choose in one of your cities, to name that his name be invoked in that place, also seek him there. 6 And you shall bring your whole burnt offerings and your voluntary offerings, the firstborn of your cattle and of your sheep.
Date: 3rd Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... A particularly important interpretation for the book of Deuteronomy is the Septuagint’s establishment of the uniqueness of the place of the Jewish cult by translating ‘in one of your tribes (or cities)’ for ‘out of all your tribes’ of 12:5. In the final section (chapters 27-34), the interpretative elements are most numerous and they reflect the intention of the translator to express Yahweh’s love for his dispersed people: there is an avoidance of the divine contempt (31:20); divine punishment is ostensibly weakened (28:37); the acts of goodness are underscored (32:10-13); and there is an insistence on the privilege of God’s people (32:8-9; 32:35; 32:43, etc) ..."
Lim, Timothy H.
"Deuteronomy in the Judaism of the Second Temple Period" in Maarten J. J. Menken and Steve Moyise (eds.), Deuteronomy in the New Testament
(pp. 6-26) T&T Clark International, 2007
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