Verse Lens · Context pointer
Deuteronomy 12:26 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 26. 26Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
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Role in This Section
Deuteronomy 12:26 sends holy things and vows to the chosen place.
Read It With
- Deuteronomy 12:15–28
Read Deuteronomy 12:26 with 12:15–28. It sends holy things and vows to the chosen place. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: The speech permits local meat eating for clean and unclean alike, forbids blood as life, reserves sacred gifts for the chosen place, includes Levites in joy, and repeats careful obedience.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Deuteronomy 12:15–28 — Ordinary Slaughter Is Freed from the Altar but Blood Is RestrictedSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Deuteronomy 12:15–28, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, speech and legal clauses, poetic lines, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Deut.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 12:15–28
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