[1] These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do
in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess
it, all the days that you live on the earth. [2] You shall surely destroy
all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their
gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:
[3] and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their
pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the
engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that
place. [4] You shall not do so to Yahweh your God. [5] But to the place
which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name
there, even to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come; [6]
and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and
your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your
freewill-offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock: [7]
and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in
all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh
your God has blessed you. [8] You shall not do after all the things that we
do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes; [9] for you
haven`t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God
gives you. [10] But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land
which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all
your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety; [11] then it shall
happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his
name to dwell there, there shall you bring all that I command you: your
burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering
of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh. [12] You
shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your
daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite
who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with
you. [13] Take heed to yourself that you don`t offer your burnt offerings
in every place that you see; [14] but in the place which Yahweh shall
choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings,
and there you shall do all that I command you. [15] Notwithstanding, you
may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your
soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh 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 on the
earth as water. [17] You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your
grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd
or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your
freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of your hand; [18] but you shall
eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall
choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and
your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall
rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to. [19] Take
heed to yourself that you don`t forsake the Levite as long as you live in
your land. [20] When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has
promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul
desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your soul.
[21] If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name
there, be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your
flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat
within your gates, after all the desire of your soul. [22] Even as the
gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and
the clean may eat of it alike. [23] Only be sure that you don`t 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 on the earth as
water. [25] You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with
your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes
of Yahweh. [26] Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you
shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose: [27] and you
shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of
Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on
the altar of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh. [28] Observe and
hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and
with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and
right in the eyes of Yahweh your God. [29] When Yahweh your God shall cut
off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and
you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; [30] take heed to yourself
that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from
before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these
nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. [31] You shall not do
so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates,
have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do
they burn in the fire to their gods. [32] Whatever thing I command you,
that shall you observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from
it.

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