Deuteronomy 15:20
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New International Version (©2011)
Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Instead, you and your family must eat these animals in the presence of the LORD your God each year at the place he chooses.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You shall eat it, you and your household, before the LORD your God year by year at the place that the LORD will choose.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"You and your household shall eat it every year before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Each year you and your family are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD chooses.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your household must eat them every year at the place the LORD will choose.

NET Bible (©2006)
You and your household must eat them annually before the LORD your God in the place he chooses.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Every year you and your family must eat these animals in the presence of the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.

American King James Version
You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou and thy household.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year, in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy God, year by year, in the place which Jehovah will choose, thou and thy household.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.

World English Bible
You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.

Young's Literal Translation
before Jehovah thy God thou dost eat it year by year, in the place which Jehovah doth choose, thou and thy house.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:19-23 Here is a direction what to do with the firstlings. We are not now limited as the Israelites were; we make no difference between a first calf, or lamb, and the rest. Let us then look to the gospel meaning of this law, devoting ourselves and the first of our time and strength to God; and using all our comforts and enjoyments to his praise, and under the direction of his law, as we have them all by his gift.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God, year by year,.... Which, if understood of male firstlings, as in connection with the preceding verse, only priests might eat of them, being devoted to the Lord; so Jarchi says, to the priest he speaks; but if this respects the Israelites in common, then they must be understood either of female firstlings or second firstlings, which the people voluntarily separated, and which they were not to eat in their own houses:

but in the place which the Lord shall choose, which was the city of Jerusalem; see Deuteronomy 12:5,

thou and thy household; the household of the priest, as Aben Ezra interprets it; but if it designs the same as in Deuteronomy 12:17, then the Israelites and their families are meant.

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Firstborn Animals
19All the firstling males that come of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your God: you shall do no work with the firstling of your bullock, nor shear the firstling of your sheep. 20You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household. 21And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. …

Leviticus 7:15 The meat of their fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; they must leave none of it till morning.
Deuteronomy 12:5 But you are to seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go;
Deuteronomy 12:11 Then to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name--there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 14:23 Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always.