Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 12:21 
Context12:21 If the place he 1 chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he 2 has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages 3 just as you wish.
Deuteronomy 14:23
Context14:23 In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, 4 your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.
Deuteronomy 16:11
Context16:11 You shall rejoice before him 5 – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, 6 the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.
Deuteronomy 26:2
Context26:2 you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he 7 chooses to locate his name. 8
1 tn Heb “the
2 tn Heb “the
3 tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in your own community.”
4 tn This refers to wine in the early stages of fermentation. In its later stages it becomes wine (יַיִן, yayin) in its mature sense.
5 tn Heb “the
6 tn Heb “gates.”
7 tn Heb “the
8 sn The place where he chooses to locate his name. This is a circumlocution for the central sanctuary, first the tabernacle and later the Jerusalem temple. See Deut 12:1-14 and especially the note on the word “you” in v. 14.
