Deuteronomy 16:5

Bible in Basic English

The Passover offering is not to be put to death in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns the Lord your God is giving you.

Hebrew Names Version
You may not sacrifice the Pesach within any of your gates, which the LORD your God gives you;

King James Version
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee:

Lexham English Bible
You are not allowed to offer the Passover sacrifice in one of your towns that Yahweh your God is giving to you,

English Standard Version
You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you,

New Century Version
Do not offer the Passover sacrifice in just any town the Lord your God gives you,

New English Translation
You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you,

Amplified Bible
"You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover [lamb] in any of your cities which the LORD your God is giving you;

New American Standard Bible
"You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your towns which the LORD your God is giving you;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou maist not offer ye Passeouer within any of thy gates, which ye Lord thy God giueth thee:

Legacy Standard Bible
You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your gates of the towns which Yahweh your God is giving you;

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

Complete Jewish Bible
You may not sacrifice the Pesach offering in just any of the towns that Adonai your God is giving you;

Darby Translation
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover in one of thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee;

Easy-to-Read Version
"You must not sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the Lord your God gives you.

George Lamsa Translation
It is unlawful for you to sacrifice the passover within any of your towns which the LORD your God gives you:

Good News Translation
"Slaughter the Passover animals at the one place of worship—and nowhere else in the land that the Lord your God will give you. Do it at sunset, the time of day when you left Egypt.

Literal Translation
You may not sacrifice the Passover offering inside any of your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou mayest not offre Easter wt in eny of thy gates, which the LORDE thy God hath geuen the:

American Standard Version
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou mayest not offer the Passouer within any of thy gates which ye Lorde thy God geueth thee:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover-offering within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee;

King James Version (1611)
Thou mayest not sacrifice the Passeouer within any of the gates, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
thou shalt not have power to sacrifice the passover in any of the cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee.

English Revised Version
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:

Berean Standard Bible
You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns the LORD your God is giving you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not mow offre pask in ech of thi citees whiche thi Lord God schal yyue to thee,

Young's Literal Translation
`Thou art not able to sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee,

Update Bible Version
You may not sacrifice the passover inside any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you;

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

World English Bible
You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you;

New King James Version
"You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you;

New Living Translation
"You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of the towns that the Lord your God is giving you.

New Life Bible
You are not allowed to give the Passover gift in any of your towns the Lord your God gives you.

New Revised Standard
You are not permitted to offer the passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover, - within any of thine own gates which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee;

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

Revised Standard Version
You may not offer the passover sacrifice within any of your towns which the LORD your God gives you;

THE MESSAGE
Don't sacrifice the Passover in any of the towns that God , your God, gives you other than the one God , your God, designates for worship; there and there only you will offer the Passover-Sacrifice at evening as the sun goes down, marking the time that you left Egypt. Boil and eat it at the place designated by God , your God. Then, at daybreak, turn around and go home.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your towns which the LORD your God is giving you;

Contextual Overview

¹ Take note of the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God: for in the month of Abib the Lord your God took you out of Egypt by night. ² The Passover offering, from your flock or your herd, is to be given to the Lord your God in the place marked out by him as the resting-place of his name. ³ Take no leavened bread with it; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread, that is, the bread of sorrow; for you came out of the land of Egypt quickly: so the memory of that day, when you came out of the land of Egypt, will be with you all your life. ⁴ For seven days let no leaven be used through all your land; and nothing of the flesh which is put to death in the evening of the first day is to be kept through the night till morning. ⁵ The Passover offering is not to be put to death in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you: ⁶ But in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place of his name, there you are to put the Passover to death in the evening, at sundown, at that time of the year when you came out of Egypt. ⁷ It is to be cooked and taken as food in the place marked out by the Lord: and in the morning you are to go back to your tents. ⁸ For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done. ⁹ Let seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the grain is cut. ¹⁰ Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sacrifice: or, kill, Deuteronomy 16:2, Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:10 - General Exodus 12:15 - Seven Exodus 12:25 - when Exodus 12:27 - It is the sacrifice Exodus 20:24 - in all places

Cross-References

Genesis 16:12
And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

Genesis 16:15
And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

Genesis 31:53
May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, be our judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Exodus 5:21
And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.

2 Chronicles 24:22
So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!

Psalms 7:8
The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

Psalms 35:23
Be awake, O Lord, be moved to take up my cause, my God and my Lord.

Psalms 43:1
Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates,.... Or cities, as the Targum of Jonathan, so called because they usually had gates to them, in which public affairs were transacted; but in none of these, only in the city of Jerusalem, the place the Lord chose, might they kill the passover and eat it, and other passover offerings:

which the Lord thy God giveth thee; in the land of Canaan, and which land was given them of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The cardinal point on which the whole of the prescriptions in this chapter turn, is evidently the same as has been so often insisted on in the previous chapters, namely, the concentration of the religious services of the people round one common sanctuary. The prohibition against observing the great Feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and tabernacle, the three annual epochs in the sacred year of the Jew, at home and in private, is reiterated in a variety of words no less than six times in the first sixteen verses of this chapter Deuteronomy 16:2, Deuteronomy 16:6-7, Deuteronomy 16:11, Deuteronomy 16:15-16. Hence, it is easy to see why nothing is here said of the other holy days.

The Feast of Passover Exodus 12:1-27; Numbers 9:1-14; Leviticus 23:1-8. A re-enforcement of this ordinance was the more necessary because its observance had clearly been intermitted for thirty-nine years (see Joshua 6:10). One Passover only had been kept in the wilderness, that recorded in Numbers 9:0, where see the notes.

Deuteronomy 16:2

Sacrifice the passover - “i. e.” offer the sacrifices proper to the feast of the Passover, which lasted seven days. Compare a similar use of the word in a general sense in John 18:28. In the latter part of Deuteronomy 16:4 and in the following verses Moses passes, as the context again shows, into the narrower sense of the word Passover.

Deuteronomy 16:7

After the Paschal Supper in the courts or neighborhood of the sanctuary was over, they might disperse to their several “tents” or “dwellings” 1 Kings 8:66. These would of course be within a short distance of the sanctuary, because the other Paschal offerings were yet to be offered day by day for seven days and the people would remain to share them; and especially to take part in the holy convocation on the first and seventh of the days.