Around the time of the exodus, the Torah says (Deut. 12:11, in Rabbi Kaplan's translation):
there will be a site that God will choose as the place dedicated to His name. It is there that you will have to bring all that I am prescribing to you as your burnt offerings, eaten sacrifices, [special] tithes, hand-delivered elevated gifts, and the choice general pledges that you may pledge to God.
Later, the Jews believed that that place was Jerusalem; the Samaritans, never being told where the place should be, just picked their own place.
Was God still undecided, during the exodus, where the place of the temple would be? He didn't know what he would later choose?
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