Deuteronomy 12:11

וְהָיָה הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם בּוֹ לְשַׁכֵּן שְׁמוֹ שָׁם שָׁמָּה תָבִיאוּ אֵת כָּל־אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם עוֹלֹתֵיכֶם וְזִבְחֵיכֶם מַעְשְׂרֹֽתֵיכֶם וּתְרֻמַת יֶדְכֶם וְכֹל מִבְחַר נִדְרֵיכֶם אֲשֶׁר תִּדְּרוּ לַֽיהוָֽה׃

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Hebrew

וְהָיָ֣ה הַמָּק֗וֹם אֲשֶׁר־יִבְחַר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֥ם בּוֹ֙ לְשַׁכֵּ֤ן שְׁמוֹ֙ שָׁ֔ם שָׁ֣מָּה תָבִ֔יאוּ אֵ֛ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָנֹכִ֖י מְצַוֶּ֣ה אֶתְכֶ֑ם עוֹלֹתֵיכֶ֣ם וְזִבְחֵיכֶ֗ם מַעְשְׂרֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ וּתְרֻמַ֣ת יֶדְכֶ֔ם וְכֹל֙ מִבְחַ֣ר נִדְרֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר תִּדְּר֖וּ לַֽיהוָֽה׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ ἔσται ὁ τόπος ὃν ἂν ἐκλέξηται κύριος ὁ θεός σον ἐπικληθῆναι τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ, οἴσετε πάντα ὅσα ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαι ὑμῖν σήμερον, τὰ ὁλοκαυτώματα ὑμῶν καὶ τὰ θυσιάσματα ὑμῶν, καὶ τὰ ἐπιδέκατα ὑμῶν καὶ τὰς ἀπαρχὰς τῶν χειρῶν ὑμῶν, καὶ πᾶν ἐκλεκτὸν τῶν δώρων ὑμῶν ὅσα ἐὰν εὔξησθε τῷ θεῷ ἐῷ·

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

in loco, quem elegerit Dominus Deus vester, ut sit nomen ejus in eo: illuc omnia, quæ præcipio, conferetis, holocausta, et hostias, ac decimas, et primitias manuum vestrarum: et quidquid præcipuum est in muneribus, quæ vovebitis Domino.

Spanish

entonces sucederá que al lugar que Yehová su Dios elija, para hacer que su nombre habite allí, llevarán todo lo que yo les mando: sus holocaustos, sus sacrificios, sus diezmos, la ofrenda mecida de su mano, y todos sus votos selectos que hagan a Yehová.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y al lugar que Jehová vuestro Dios escogiere para hacer habitar en él su nombre, allí llevaréis todas las cosas que yo os mando: vuestros holocaustos, y vuestros sacrificios, vuestros diezmos, y las ofrendas elevadas de vuestras manos, y todo lo escogido de vuestros votos que hubiereis prometido á Jehová;

English

then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.

✦ What the text says

Summary

Deuteronomy 12:11 instructs that once Yehovah chooses a specific place for his name to dwell, the people must bring there everything commanded: burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, hand-contributions, and the best of their vowed offerings. The verse structures a future/conditional clause ("it will be... the place which he will choose") followed by a list of offering categories.

Key words

yiv.Char ("he will choose", H0977) — qal imperfect, expressing an action not yet completed, tied to Yehovah as subject; establishes the divine choice of the place as the condition for the rest of the verse.
sha.Ken ("cause to dwell", H7931) — piel infinitive, intensive/causative nuance; combined with le. ("to") it expresses purpose: "in order to cause [his name] to dwell."
she.M + o ("his name", H8034 + H9023) — construct noun with possessive suffix; the object that Yehovah causes to dwell at the chosen place, not Yehovah's presence stated directly but "his name."
ta.Vi.'u ("you will bring", H0935P) — hiphil imperfect, causative, plural "you"; the people are the causative agents who bring items to the place.
me.tza.Veh ("commanding", H6680) — piel participle, masculine singular; describes Moses' ongoing/continuous act of commanding ("the one commanding"), attached to the first-person pronoun 'a.no.Khi ("I", H0595).

What the text says

The verse opens with ve. + ha.Yah ("and it will be", H9001 + H1961), a narrative vav with sequential perfect verb, which continues a chain of instructions from the preceding context and introduces a future condition. The subject of this future condition is ha.Makom ("the place", H4725) modified by the relative clause 'asher-yiv.char Yehovah 'Elohei.khem bo ("which Yehovah your God will choose in it") — the verb yiv.Char is qal imperfect, marking this choice as not yet realized within the text's timeframe.

The purpose clause le.sha.Ken she.mo sham ("to cause his name to dwell there") uses the piel infinitive sha.Ken, an intensive/causative stem, followed by the construct noun she.M with the third-person suffix o ("his"), and the adverb sham ("there", H8033). The text specifies that it is "his name" (she.mo) that dwells at the place, not an unqualified statement about Yehovah's own presence there.

The second half of the verse lists items to be brought, each in construct form with the second-person plural suffix khem ("your"): olotei.khem ("your burnt offerings", H5930A), zivchei.khem ("your sacrifices", H2077), ma'serotei.khem ("your tithes", H4643), terumat yed.khem ("the contribution of your hand", H8641 + H3027I), and kol mivchar nidrei.khem ("all the choicest of your votive offerings", H4005 + H5088). Each category is repeated with the possessive suffix, marking these as items belonging to and originating from "you" (plural), then a further relative clause 'asher tide.ru la.Yehovah ("which you will vow to Yehovah") specifies that the votive offerings are those that will be vowed in the future (qal imperfect ti.de.Ru, H5087).

Differences between versions

The LXX renders terumat yed.khem ("the contribution of your hand") as τὰς ἀπαρχὰς τῶν χειρῶν ὑμῶν ("the first-fruits of your hands"), differing from the Hebrew's more general term "contribution" (terumah, H8641). The Vulgate uses "primitias manuum vestrarum" ("firstfruits of your hands"), aligning with the LXX's "firstfruits" sense rather than a literal "contribution." Additionally, the LXX's phrase τῷ θεῷ ἐῷ ("to your God") for the final clause diverges from the Hebrew's la.Yehovah ("to Yehovah"), where the Hebrew text names the tetragrammaton directly rather than using a generic divine title.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.