In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year, in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.

before Jehovah thy God thou dost eat it year by year, in the place which Jehovah doth choose, thou and thy house.

But year by year you and all your house are to take a meal of it before the Lord, in the place of his selection.

In the sight of the Lord your God, you shall eat these, each year, in the place which the Lord will choose, you and your household.

Coram Jehova Deo tuo comedes eum annuatim in loco quem elegerit Jehova, tu et familia tua.

Thou shalt eat it - in the place which the Lord shall choose - Thus God in his mercy made their duty and interest go hand in hand. And in every case God acts thus with his creatures; well, therefore, might Satan ask, Doth Job serve God for naught? No! nor does God design that any man should.

Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God, year by year,.... Which, if understood of male firstlings, as in connection with the preceding verse, only priests might eat of them, being devoted to the Lord; so Jarchi says, to the priest he speaks; but if this respects the Israelites in common, then they must be understood either of female firstlings or second firstlings, which the people voluntarily separated, and which they were not to eat in their own houses:
but in the place which the Lord shall choose, which was the city of Jerusalem; see Deuteronomy 12:5,
thou and thy household; the household of the priest, as Aben Ezra interprets it; but if it designs the same as in Deuteronomy 12:17, then the Israelites and their families are meant.

Year by year - Namely, in the solemn feasts which returned upon them every year.