20 Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose.

Other Translations of Deuteronomy 15:20

King James Version

20 Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou and thy household.

English Standard Version

20 You shall eat it, you and your household, before the Lord your God year by year at the place that the Lord will choose.

The Message

20 These are for you to eat every year, you and your family, in the Presence of God, your God, at the place that God designates for worship.

New King James Version

20 You and your household shall eat it before the Lord your God year by year in the place which the Lord chooses.

New Living Translation

20 Instead, you and your family must eat these animals in the presence of the Lord your God each year at the place he chooses.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 15:20

Commentary on Deuteronomy 15:19-23

(Read Deuteronomy 15:19-23)

Here is a direction what to do with the firstlings. We are not now limited as the Israelites were; we make no difference between a first calf, or lamb, and the rest. Let us then look to the gospel meaning of this law, devoting ourselves and the first of our time and strength to God; and using all our comforts and enjoyments to his praise, and under the direction of his law, as we have them all by his gift.