12"These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.H2706H4941H8104H6213H776H3068H430H1H5414H3423H3117H2416H127

2You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.H6H6H4725H1471H834H3423H5647H430H7311H2022H1389H7488H6086

3You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.H5422H4196H7665H4676H8313H842H784H1438H6456H430H6H8034H4725

4You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way.H6213H3068H430

5But you shall seek the place that the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go,H4725H3068H430H977H7626H7760H8034H7933H1875H935

6and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.H935H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H5088H5071H1062H1241H6629

7And 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.H398H6440H3068H430H8055H4916H3027H1004H3068H430H1288

8"You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes,H6213H6213H3117H376H3477H5869

9for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.H935H4496H5159H3068H430H5414

10But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety,H5674H3383H3427H776H3068H430H5157H5117H341H5439H3427H983

11then to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the LORD.H4725H3068H430H977H8034H7931H935H6680H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H4005H5088H5087H3068

12And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.H8055H6440H3068H430H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H3588H2506H5159

13Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see,H8104H5927H5930H4725H7200

14but at the place that 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.H4725H3068H977H259H7626H5927H5930H6213H6680

15"However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.H2076H398H1320H8179H5315H185H1293H3068H430H5414H2931H2889H398H6643H354

16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.H398H1818H8210H776H4325

17You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or the contribution that you present,H3201H398H8179H4643H1715H8492H3323H1062H1241H6629H5088H5087H5071H8641H3027

18but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place that the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you undertake.H398H6440H3068H430H4725H3068H430H977H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H8055H6440H3068H430H4916H3027

19Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.H8104H5800H3881H3117H127

20"When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat meat,' because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.H3068H430H7337H1366H1696H559H398H1320H5315H183H398H1320H398H1320H5315H185

21If the place that 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 whenever you desire.H4725H3068H430H977H7760H8034H7368H2076H1241H6629H3068H5414H6680H398H8179H5315H185

22Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.H6643H354H398H398H2931H2889H398H3162

23Only 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.H2388H398H1818H1818H5315H398H5315H1320

24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.H398H8210H776H4325

25You 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.H398H3190H1121H310H6213H3477H5869H3068

26But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place that the LORD will choose,H6944H5088H5375H935H4725H3068H977

27and 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.H6213H5930H1320H1818H4196H3068H430H1818H2077H8210H4196H3068H430H398H1320

28Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.H8104H8085H1697H6680H3190H1121H310H5704H5769H6213H2896H3477H5869H3068H430

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,H3068H430H3772H1471H6440H935H3423H3423H3427H776

30take care 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 the same.'H8104H5367H310H310H8045H6440H1875H430H559H1471H5647H430H6213H1571

31You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.H6213H3068H430H8441H3068H8130H6213H430H1121H1323H8313H784H430

32"Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.H1697H6680H8104H6213H3254H1639