12"Here are the laws that you are to obey as long as you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. Listen to them!H2706H4941H8104H6213H776H3068H430H1H5414H3423H3117H2416H127 2In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees.H6H6H4725H1471H834H3423H5647H430H7311H2022H1389H7488H6086 3Tear down their altars and smash their sacred stone pillars to pieces. Burn their symbols of the goddess Asherah and chop down their idols, so that they will never again be worshiped at those places.H5422H4196H7665H4676H8313H842H784H1438H6456H430H6H8034H4725 4"Do not worship the LORD your God in the way that these people worship their gods.H6213H3068H430 5Out of the territory of all your tribes the LORD will choose the one place where the people are to come into his presence and worship him.H4725H3068H430H977H7626H7760H8034H7933H1875H935 6There you are to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, the gifts that you promise to the LORD, your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep.H935H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H5088H5071H1062H1241H6629 7There, in the presence of the LORD your God, who has blessed you, you and your families will eat and enjoy the good things that you have worked for.H398H6440H3068H430H8055H4916H3027H1004H3068H430H1288 8"When that time comes, you must not do as you have been doing. Until now you have all been worshiping as you please,H6213H6213H3117H376H3477H5869 9because you have not yet entered the land that the LORD your God is giving you, where you can live in peace.H935H4496H5159H3068H430H5414 10When you cross the Jordan River, the LORD will let you occupy the land and live there. He will keep you safe from all your enemies, and you will live in peace.H5674H3383H3427H776H3068H430H5157H5117H341H5439H3427H983 11The LORD will choose a single place where he is to be worshiped, and there you must bring to him everything that I have commanded: your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, and those special gifts that you have promised to the LORD.H4725H3068H430H977H8034H7931H935H6680H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H4005H5088H5087H3068 12Be joyful there in his presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites who live in your towns; remember that the Levites will have no land of their own.H8055H6440H3068H430H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H3588H2506H5159 13You are not to offer your sacrifices wherever you choose;H8104H5927H5930H4725H7200 14you must offer them only in the one place that the LORD will choose in the territory of one of your tribes. Only there are you to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and do all the other things that I have commanded you.H4725H3068H977H259H7626H5927H5930H6213H6680 15"But you are free to kill and eat your animals wherever you live. You may eat as many as the LORD gives you. All of you, whether ritually clean or unclean, may eat them, just as you would eat the meat of deer or antelope.H2076H398H1320H8179H5315H185H1293H3068H430H5414H2931H2889H398H6643H354 16But you must not eat their blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.H398H1818H8210H776H4325 17Nothing that you offer to the LORD is to be eaten in the places where you live: neither the tithes of your grain, your wine, or your olive oil, nor the first-born of your cattle and sheep, the gifts that you promise to the LORD, your freewill offerings, or any other offerings.H3201H398H8179H4643H1715H8492H3323H1062H1241H6629H5088H5087H5071H8641H3027 18You and your children, together with your servants and the Levites who live in your towns, are to eat these offerings only in the presence of the LORD your God, in the one place of worship chosen by the LORD your God. And you are to be happy there over everything that you have done.H398H6440H3068H430H4725H3068H430H977H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H8055H6440H3068H430H4916H3027 19Be sure, also, not to neglect the Levites, as long as you live in your land.H8104H5800H3881H3117H127 20"When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised, you may eat meat whenever you want to.H3068H430H7337H1366H1696H559H398H1320H5315H183H398H1320H398H1320H5315H185 21If the one place of worship is too far away, then, whenever you wish, you may kill any of the cattle or sheep that the LORD has given you, and you may eat the meat at home, as I have told you.H4725H3068H430H977H7760H8034H7368H2076H1241H6629H3068H5414H6680H398H8179H5315H185 22Anyone, ritually clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as he would eat the meat of deer or antelope.H6643H354H398H398H2931H2889H398H3162 23Only do not eat meat with blood still in it, for the life is in the blood, and you must not eat the life with the meat.H2388H398H1818H1818H5315H398H5315H1320 24Do not use the blood for food; instead, pour it out on the ground like water.H398H8210H776H4325 25If you obey this command, the LORD will be pleased, and all will go well for you and your descendants.H398H3190H1121H310H6213H3477H5869H3068 26Take to the one place of worship your offerings and the gifts that you have promised the LORD.H6944H5088H5375H935H4725H3068H977 27Offer there the sacrifices which are to be completely burned on the LORD's altar. Also offer those sacrifices in which you eat the meat and pour the blood out on the altar.H6213H5930H1320H1818H4196H3068H430H1818H2077H8210H4196H3068H430H398H1320 28Obey faithfully everything that I have commanded you, and all will go well for you and your descendants forever, because you will be doing what is right and what pleases the LORD your God.H8104H8085H1697H6680H3190H1121H310H5704H5769H6213H2896H3477H5869H3068H430 29"The LORD your God will destroy the nations as you invade their land, and you will occupy it and settle there.H3068H430H3772H1471H6440H935H3423H3423H3427H776 30After the LORD destroys those nations, make sure that you don't follow their religious practices, because that would be fatal. Don't try to find out how they worship their gods, so that you can worship in the same way.H8104H5367H310H310H8045H6440H1875H430H559H1471H5647H430H6213H1571 31Do not worship the LORD your God in the way they worship their gods, for in the worship of their gods they do all the disgusting things that the LORD hates. They even sacrifice their children in the fires on their altars.H6213H3068H430H8441H3068H8130H6213H430H1121H1323H8313H784H430 32"Do everything that I have commanded you; do not add anything to it or take anything from it.H1697H6680H8104H6213H3254H1639
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