where the tribes go up, even Yah’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to Yahweh’s name.
Parallel translations
- KJV Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
- BSB where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
- NKJV Where the tribes go up, The tribes of the Lord, To the Testimony of Israel, To give thanks to the name of the Lord.
- NASB To which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord— An ordinance for Israel— To give thanks to the name of the Lord.
- NLT All the tribes of Israel—the Lord’s people— make their pilgrimage here. They come to give thanks to the name of the Lord, as the law requires of Israel.
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- Deut 16:16Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
- Ps 66:13–16I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
- Exod 23:17Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
- Exod 34:23–24Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Ps 132:13For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
- Ps 118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.
- Ps 107:1–3Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
- Deut 12:11then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh 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 Yahweh.
- Exod 26:33–34You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
- Exod 16:34As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
- Exod 32:15Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
- Deut 12:5But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and there you shall come.
- Ps 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
- Ps 116:17–19I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.
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