“You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in the LORD’s eyes.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 12 contains 32 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.