📜WEB · Deuteronomy 12:25

What does Deuteronomy 12:25 mean?

"You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes."

— Deuteronomy 12:25 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

22

Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.

23

Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.

24

You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

25

You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

26

Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose.

27

You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on Yahweh your God’s altar; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on Yahweh your God’s altar; and you shall eat the meat.

28

Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.

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