Deuteronomy 12:32 - Prayer Tents

12These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land.H2706H4941H8104H6213H776H3068H430H1H5414H3423H3117H2416H127 2Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.H6H6H4725H1471H834H3423H5647H430H7311H2022H1389H7488H6086 3Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.H5422H4196H7665H4676H8313H842H784H1438H6456H430H6H8034H4725 4You must not worship the LORD your God in their way.H6213H3068H430 5But you are to seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go;H4725H3068H430H977H7626H7760H8034H7933H1875H935 6there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.H935H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H5088H5071H1062H1241H6629 7There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the LORD your God has blessed you.H398H6440H3068H430H8055H4916H3027H1004H3068H430H1288 8You are not to do as we do here today, everyone doing as they see fit,H6213H6213H3117H376H3477H5869 9since you have not yet reached the resting place and the inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.H935H4496H5159H3068H430H5414 10But you will cross the Jordan and settle in the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you will live in safety.H5674H3383H3427H776H3068H430H5157H5117H341H5439H3427H983 11Then to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name—there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the LORD.H4725H3068H430H977H8034H7931H935H6680H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H4005H5088H5087H3068 12And there rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns who have no allotment or inheritance of their own.H8055H6440H3068H430H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H3588H2506H5159 13Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please.H8104H5927H5930H4725H7200 14Offer them only at the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.H4725H3068H977H259H7626H5927H5930H6213H6680 15Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the LORD your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.H2076H398H1320H8179H5315H185H1293H3068H430H5414H2931H2889H398H6643H354 16But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.H398H1818H8210H776H4325 17You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and olive oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.H3201H398H8179H4643H1715H8492H3323H1062H1241H6629H5088H5087H5071H8641H3027 18Instead, you are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you put your hand to.H398H6440H3068H430H4725H3068H430H977H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H8055H6440H3068H430H4916H3027 19Be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.H8104H5800H3881H3117H127 20When the LORD your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, "I would like some meat," then you may eat as much of it as you want.H3068H430H7337H1366H1696H559H398H1320H5315H183H398H1320H398H1320H5315H185 21If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.H4725H3068H430H977H7760H8034H7368H2076H1241H6629H3068H5414H6680H398H8179H5315H185 22Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.H6643H354H398H398H2931H2889H398H3162 23But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.H2388H398H1818H1818H5315H398H5315H1320 24You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.H398H8210H776H4325 25Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.H398H3190H1121H310H6213H3477H5869H3068 26But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give, and go to the place the LORD will choose.H6944H5088H5375H935H4725H3068H977 27Present your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God, both the meat and the blood. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.H6213H5930H1320H1818H4196H3068H430H1818H2077H8210H4196H3068H430H398H1320 28Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.H8104H8085H1697H6680H3190H1121H310H5704H5769H6213H2896H3477H5869H3068H430 29The LORD your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land,H3068H430H3772H1471H6440H935H3423H3423H3427H776 30and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same."H8104H5367H310H310H8045H6440H1875H430H559H1471H5647H430H6213H1571 31You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.H6213H3068H430H8441H3068H8130H6213H430H1121H1323H8313H784H430 32See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.H1697H6680H8104H6213H3254H1639