Deuteronomy 12:5

WEB

⁵But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.

KJV

⁵But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

BSB

⁵Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

FBV

⁵No, you must go to the place the Lord your God will choose from the territory of all your tribes where he will live with you. That's where you must go.

Extra References

Deuteronomy 12:11

¹¹then it shall happen that to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD.

2 Chronicles 7:12

¹²Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.

Deuteronomy 26:2

²that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

Deuteronomy 16:2

²You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

1 Kings 8:29

²⁹that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.

Deuteronomy 12:13

¹³Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

Psalms 132:13-14

¹³For the LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. ¹⁴“This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.

Psalms 78:68

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

Isaiah 66:1-2

¹The LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest? ²For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says the LORD: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Psalms 87:2-3

²The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. ³Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.