◄ Deuteronomy 16:5 ►
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New Revised Standard Version
You are not permitted to offer the passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you.

Contemporary English Version
Don't offer the Passover sacrifice in just any town where you happen to live.

New American Bible
You may not sacrifice the Passover in any of the communities which the LORD, your God, gives you;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God will give thee:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God will give thee:

sacrifice.

Deuteronomy 16:2 And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there.

Deuteronomy 12:5,6 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: . . .

Context
The Feast of the Passover
…4No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for seven days, neither shall any of the flesh of that which was sacrificed the first day in the evening remain until morning. 5Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God will give thee:6But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the phase in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at which time thou camest out of Egypt.…
Cross References
Mark 14:12
Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go and prepare for thee to eat the pasch?

Deuteronomy 16:4
No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for seven days, neither shall any of the flesh of that which was sacrificed the first day in the evening remain until morning.

Deuteronomy 16:6
But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the phase in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at which time thou camest out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:4
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