12:11
In the desert they had the tabernacle. In the Promised Land the Lord would choose a place as His dwelling. Note that God chooses how He is to be worshipped. It is up to God, not up to us! It would be to this place that the people were to bring their tithes and offerings. As well as meaning that they brought them to the place that God had chosen, this was also to stop them taking them to places of idol worship.
12:12-14
Another verse stressing that worship was to be a joyous time. This included the whole family, and the servants. It also included the Levites, whom we are again reminded had no land allotted to them. They are reminded again not to sacrifice the burnt offerings anywhere else. They may have been tempted to think, “it is still an offering to the Lord, so if we offer it here (where here is not at the Lord’s chosen place) it will still be good”. They were only to make offerings at the Lord’s chosen place.
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