Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 16:2 
Context16:2 You must sacrifice the Passover animal 1 (from the flock or the herd) to the Lord your God in the place where he 2 chooses to locate his name.
Deuteronomy 16:5-6
Context16:5 You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages 3 that the Lord your God is giving you, 16:6 but you must sacrifice it 4 in the evening in 5 the place where he 6 chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.
1 tn Heb “sacrifice the Passover” (so NASB). The word “animal” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “the
3 tn Heb “gates.”
4 tn Heb “the Passover.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.
5 tc The MT reading אֶל (’el, “unto”) before “the place” should, following Smr, Syriac, Targums, and Vulgate, be omitted in favor of ב (bet; בַּמָּקוֹם, bammaqom), “in the place.”
