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Deuteronomy 27:7

You shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice before the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 27:7 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
  • KJV And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.
  • BSB There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.
  • NASB and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and rejoice before the Lord your God.
  • NLT Also sacrifice peace offerings on it, and celebrate by feasting there before the Lord your God.

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Quick answer

Peace offerings are to be sacrificed and eaten there with rejoicing before the Lord. Covenant worship issues in joyful fellowship and communion with God.

Overview

Peace offerings included a shared meal eaten in God's presence, symbolizing reconciled fellowship and gladness in His blessing. Worship thus moved from atonement to joyful communion. This anticipates the fellowship believers enjoy with God through Christ, the peace offering who reconciles us to God, and the joyful feast of His coming kingdom (Romans 5:1; Revelation 19:9).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Isa 12:3Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
  • Hab 3:18yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
  • Lev 3:1–17“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.
  • Ps 100:1–2A Psalm of thanksgiving. Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
  • Heb 13:20–21Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
  • Deut 12:7There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
  • Acts 10:36The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ — he is Lord of all —
  • Deut 16:11You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
  • Deut 16:14You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
  • Deut 26:10–11Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
  • Rom 5:10For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
  • Eph 2:16–17and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.
  • Phil 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
  • Neh 8:10Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
  • Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
  • Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
  • Isa 61:3to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
  • Lev 7:11–17“‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh.
  • 2 Chr 30:23–27The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.
  • Deut 12:12You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
  • Col 1:20and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
  • Rom 5:1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

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  • VideoBibleProject — Deuteronomy videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on DeuteronomyMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).

How Deuteronomy 27:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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