Bible Verses About Worship: Enjoined

God said to Ya'akov, "Get up, go up to Beit-El and live there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled 'Esav your brother."

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Lord, ADONAI.

"You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the fat of my festival to remain all night until morning.

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Lord, ADONAI, the God of Isra'el.

Rather, you are to come to the place where ADONAI your God will put his name. He will choose it from all your tribes; and you will seek out that place, which is where he will live, and go there.

You will bring there your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tenths [that you set aside for ADONAI], the offerings that you give, the offerings you have vowed, your voluntary offerings, and the firstborn of your cattle and sheep.

There you will eat in the presence of ADONAI your God; and you will rejoice over everything you set out to do, you and your households, in which ADONAI your God has blessed you.

then you will bring all that I am ordering you to the place ADONAI your God chooses to have his name live -your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tenths, the offering from your hand, and all your best possessions that you dedicate to ADONAI;

and you will rejoice in the presence of ADONAI your God - you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves and the Levi staying with you, inasmuch as he has no share or inheritance with you.

but at the place where ADONAI your God will choose to have his name live - there is where you are to sacrifice the Pesach offering, in the evening, when the sun sets, at the time of year that you came out of Egypt.

You are to roast it and eat it in the place ADONAI your God will choose; in the morning you will return and go to your tents.

For six days you are to eat matzah; on the seventh day there is to be a festive assembly for ADONAI your God; do not do any kind of work.

when all Isra'el have come to appear in the presence of ADONAI at the place he will choose, you are to read this Torah before all Isra'el, so that they can hear it.

Assemble the people-the men, the women, the little ones and the foreigners you have in your towns -so that they can hear, learn, fear ADONAI your God and take care to obey all the words of this Torah;

and so that their children, who have not known, can hear and learn to fear ADONAI your God, for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Yarden to possess."

They will summon peoples to the mountain and there offer righteous sacrifices; for they will draw from the abundance of the seas and from the hidden treasures of the sand."

On the contrary, you are to fear ADONAI, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. Worship him, and sacrifice to him.

and the king will desire your beauty; for he is your lord, so honor him.

Make vows to ADONAI your God, and keep them; all who are around him must bring presents to the one who should be feared.

give ADONAI the glory due to his name; bring an offering, and enter his courtyards.

Worship ADONAI in holy splendor; tremble before him, all the earth!

All who worship images will be put to shame, those who make their boast in worthless idols. Bow down to him, all you gods!

Exalt ADONAI our God! Prostrate yourselves at his footstool (he is holy).

Proclaim a holy fast, call for a solemn assembly, gather the leaders and all who live in the land to the house of ADONAI your God, and cry out to ADONAI,

"Oh no! The Day! The Day of ADONAI is upon us! As destruction from Shaddai it is coming!