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Deuteronomy 12
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The Chosen Place of Worship

12"Be careful to follow these statutes and ordinances in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days you live on the earth.H2706H4941H8104H6213H776H3068H430H1H5414H3423H3117H2416H127
2Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are driving out worship their gods— on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every flourishing tree.H6H6H4725H1471H834H3423H5647H430H7311H2022H1389H7488H6086
3Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.H5422H4196H7665H4676H8313H842H784H1438H6456H430H6H8034H4725
4Don't worship the LORD your God this way.H6213H3068H430
5Instead, you must go to the place the LORD your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling.H4725H3068H430H977H7626H7760H8034H7933H1875H935
6You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.H935H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H5088H5071H1062H1241H6629
7You will eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household in everything you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.H398H6440H3068H430H8055H4916H3027H1004H3068H430H1288
8"You are not to do as we are doing here today; everyone [is doing] whatever seems right in his own eyes.H6213H6213H3117H376H3477H5869
9Indeed, you have not yet come into the resting place and the inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.H935H4496H5159H3068H430H5414
10When you cross the Jordan and live in the land the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you live in security,H5674H3383H3427H776H3068H430H5157H5117H341H5439H3427H983
11then the LORD your God will choose the place to have His name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the LORD.H4725H3068H430H977H8034H7931H935H6680H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H4005H5088H5087H3068
12You will rejoice before the LORD your God— you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.H8055H6440H3068H430H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H3588H2506H5159
13Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in all the [sacred] places you see.H8104H5927H5930H4725H7200
14You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I command you.H4725H3068H977H259H7626H5927H5930H6213H6680

Slaughtering Animals to Eat

15"But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Those who are clean or unclean may eat it, as they would a gazelle or deer,H2076H398H1320H8179H5315H185H1293H3068H430H5414H2931H2889H398H6643H354
16but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.H398H1818H8210H776H4325
17Within your gates you may not eat: the tenth of your grain, new wine, or oil; the firstborn of your herd or flock; any of your vow offerings that you pledge; your freewill offerings; or your personal contributions.H3201H398H8179H4643H1715H8492H3323H1062H1241H6629H5088H5087H5071H8641H3027
18You must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God chooses— you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you do,H398H6440H3068H430H4725H3068H430H977H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H8055H6440H3068H430H4916H3027
19and be careful not to 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 want to eat meat' because you have a strong desire to eat meat, you may eat it whenever you want.H3068H430H7337H1366H1696H559H398H1320H5315H183H398H1320H398H1320H5315H185
21If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.H4725H3068H430H977H7760H8034H7368H2076H1241H6629H3068H5414H6680H398H8179H5315H185
22Indeed, you may eat it as the gazelle and deer are eaten; both the clean and the unclean may eat it.H6643H354H398H398H2931H2889H398H3162
23But don't eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.H2388H398H1818H1818H5315H398H5315H1320
24Do not eat blood; pour it on the ground like water.H398H8210H776H4325
25Do not eat it, so that you and your children after you will prosper, because you will be doing what is right in the LORD's sight.H398H3190H1121H310H6213H3477H5869H3068
26"But you are to take the holy offerings you have and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD chooses.H6944H5088H5375H935H4725H3068H977
27Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your [other] sacrifices is to be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.H6213H5930H1320H1818H4196H3068H430H1818H2077H8210H4196H3068H430H398H1320
28Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that you and your children after you may prosper forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.H8104H8085H1697H6680H3190H1121H310H5704H5769H6213H2896H3477H5869H3068H430
29"When the LORD your God annihilates the nations before you, which you are entering to take possession of, and you drive them out and live in their land,H3068H430H3772H1471H6440H935H3423H3423H3427H776
30be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, 'How did these nations worship their gods? I'll also do the same.'H8104H5367H310H310H8045H6440H1875H430H559H1471H5647H430H6213H1571
31You must not do the same to the LORD your God, because they practice for their gods every detestable thing the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.H6213H3068H430H8441H3068H8130H6213H430H1121H1323H8313H784H430
32You must be careful to do everything I command you; do not add anything to it or take anything away from it.H1697H6680H8104H6213H3254H1639


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