[1] "These are the statutes and ordinances which you shall be careful to do
in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to
possess, all the days that you live upon the earth. [2] You shall surely
destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served
their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every
green tree; [3] you shall tear down their altars, and dash in pieces their
pillars, and burn their Ashe'rim with fire; you shall hew down the graven
images of their gods, and destroy their name out of that place. [4] You
shall not do so to the LORD your God. [5] But you shall seek the place
which the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name
and make his habitation there; thither you shall go, [6] and thither you
shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the
offering that you present, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings,
and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock; [7] and there you shall
eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your
households, in all that you undertake, in which the LORD your God has
blessed you. [8] You shall not do according to all that we are doing here
this day, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes; [9] for you
have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your
God gives you. [10] But when you go over the Jordan, and live in the land
which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest
from all your enemies round about, so that you live in safety, [11] then to
the place which the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell
there, thither you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings
and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering that you present, and all
your votive offerings which you vow to the LORD. [12] And you shall rejoice
before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your
menservants and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your
towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you. [13] Take heed that
you do not offer your burnt offerings at every place that you see; [14] but
at the place which the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you
shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am
commanding you. [15] "However, you may slaughter and eat flesh within any
of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD
your God which he has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it,
as of the gazelle and as of the hart. [16] Only you shall not eat the
blood; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water. [17] You may not
eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your
oil, or the firstlings of your herd or of your flock, or any of your votive
offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the offering that
you present; [18] but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the
place which the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and your
daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, and the Levite who is
within your towns; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all
that you undertake. [19] Take heed that you do not forsake the Levite as
long as you live in your land. [20] "When the LORD your God enlarges your
territory, as he has promised you, and you say, `I will eat flesh,' because
you crave flesh, you may eat as much flesh as you desire. [21] If the place
which the LORD your God will choose to put his name there is too far from
you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the LORD has
given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your towns as
much as you desire. [22] Just as the gazelle or the hart is eaten, so you
may eat of it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it. [23] Only be
sure that you do not eat the blood; for the blood is the life, and you
shall not eat the life with the flesh. [24] You shall not eat it; you shall
pour it out upon the earth like water. [25] You shall not eat it; that all
may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is
right in the sight of the LORD. [26] But the holy things which are due from
you, and your votive offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the
place which the LORD will choose, [27] and offer your burnt offerings, the
flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your
sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, but the
flesh you may eat. [28] Be careful to heed all these words which I command
you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you for
ever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
[29] "When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in
to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, [30] take
heed that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been
destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying,
`How did these nations serve their gods?--that I also may do likewise.'
[31] You shall not do so to the LORD your God; for every abominable thing
which the LORD hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn
their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. [32] "Everything
that I command you you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to it or
take from it.

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