Deuteronomy 12:32 - Prayer Tents

12These are the rules and regulations that you must diligently observe for as long as you live in this country that GOD, the God-of-Your-Fathers, has given you to possess.H2706H4941H8104H6213H776H3068H430H1H5414H3423H3117H2416H127 2Ruthlessly demolish all the sacred shrines where the nations that you're driving out worship their gods—wherever you find them, on hills and mountains or in groves of green trees.H6H6H4725H1471H834H3423H5647H430H7311H2022H1389H7488H6086 3Tear apart their altars. Smash their phallic pillars. Burn their sex-and-religion Asherah shrines. Break up their carved gods. Obliterate the names of those god sites.H5422H4196H7665H4676H8313H842H784H1438H6456H430H6H8034H4725 4Stay clear of those places—don't let what went on there contaminate the worship of GOD, your God.H6213H3068H430 5Instead find the site that GOD, your God, will choose and mark it with his name as a common center for all the tribes of Israel. Assemble there.H4725H3068H430H977H7626H7760H8034H7933H1875H935 6Bring to that place your Absolution-Offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and Tribute-Offerings, your Vow-Offerings, your Freewill-Offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.H935H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H5088H5071H1062H1241H6629 7Feast there in the Presence of GOD, your God. Celebrate everything that you and your families have accomplished under the blessing of GOD, your God.H398H6440H3068H430H8055H4916H3027H1004H3068H430H1288 8Don't continue doing things the way we're doing them at present, each of us doing as we wish.H6213H6213H3117H376H3477H5869 9Until now you haven't arrived at the goal, the resting place, the inheritance that GOD, your God, is giving you.H935H4496H5159H3068H430H5414 10But the minute you cross the Jordan River and settle into the land GOD, your God, is enabling you to inherit, he'll give you rest from all your surrounding enemies. You'll be able to settle down and live in safety.H5674H3383H3427H776H3068H430H5157H5117H341H5439H3427H983 11From then on, at the place that GOD, your God, chooses to mark with his name as the place where you can meet him, bring everything that I command you: your Absolution-Offerings and sacrifices, tithes and Tribute-Offerings, and the best of your Vow-Offerings that you vow to GOD.H4725H3068H430H977H8034H7931H935H6680H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H4005H5088H5087H3068 12Celebrate there in the Presence of GOD, your God, you and your sons and daughters, your servants and maids, including the Levite living in your neighborhood because he has no place of his own in your inheritance.H8055H6440H3068H430H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H3588H2506H5159 13Be extra careful: Don't offer your Absolution-Offerings just any place that strikes your fancy.H8104H5927H5930H4725H7200 14Offer your Absolution-Offerings only in the place that GOD chooses in one of your tribal regions. There and only there are you to bring all that I command you.H4725H3068H977H259H7626H5927H5930H6213H6680 15It's permissible to slaughter your nonsacrificial animals like gazelle and deer in your towns and eat all you want from them with the blessing of GOD, your God. Both the ritually clean and unclean may eat.H2076H398H1320H8179H5315H185H1293H3068H430H5414H2931H2889H398H6643H354 16But you may not eat the blood. Pour the blood out on the ground like water.H398H1818H8210H776H4325 17Nor may you eat there the tithe of your grain, new wine, or olive oil; nor the firstborn of your herds and flocks; nor any of the Vow-Offerings that you vow; nor your Freewill-Offerings and Tribute-Offerings.H3201H398H8179H4643H1715H8492H3323H1062H1241H6629H5088H5087H5071H8641H3027 18All these you must eat in the Presence of GOD, your God, in the place GOD, your God, chooses—you, your son and daughter, your servant and maid, and the Levite who lives in your neighborhood. You are to celebrate in the Presence of GOD, your God, all the things you've been able to accomplish.H398H6440H3068H430H4725H3068H430H977H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H8055H6440H3068H430H4916H3027 19And make sure that for as long as you live on your land you never, never neglect the Levite.H8104H5800H3881H3117H127 20When GOD, your God, expands your territory as he promised he would do, and you say, "I'm hungry for meat," because you happen to be craving meat at the time, go ahead and eat as much meat as you want.H3068H430H7337H1366H1696H559H398H1320H5315H183H398H1320H398H1320H5315H185 21If you're too far away from the place that GOD, your God, has marked with his name, it's all right to slaughter animals from your herds and flocks that GOD has given you, as I've commanded you. In your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.H4725H3068H430H977H7760H8034H7368H2076H1241H6629H3068H5414H6680H398H8179H5315H185 22Just as the nonsacrificial animals like the gazelle and deer are eaten, you may eat them; the ritually unclean and clean may eat them at the same table.H6643H354H398H398H2931H2889H398H3162 23Only this: Absolutely no blood. Don't eat the blood. Blood is life; don't eat the life with the meat.H2388H398H1818H1818H5315H398H5315H1320 24Don't eat it; pour it out on the ground like water.H398H8210H776H4325 25Don't eat it; then you'll have a good life, you and your children after you. By all means, do the right thing in GOD's eyes.H398H3190H1121H310H6213H3477H5869H3068 26And this: Lift high your Holy-Offerings and your Vow-Offerings and bring them to the place GOD designates.H6944H5088H5375H935H4725H3068H977 27Sacrifice your Absolution-Offerings, the meat and blood, on the Altar of GOD, your God; pour out the blood of the Absolution-Offering on the Altar of GOD, your God; then you can go ahead and eat the meat.H6213H5930H1320H1818H4196H3068H430H1818H2077H8210H4196H3068H430H398H1320 28Be vigilant, listen obediently to these words that I command you so that you'll have a good life, you and your children, for a long, long time, doing what is good and right in the eyes of GOD, your God.H8104H8085H1697H6680H3190H1121H310H5704H5769H6213H2896H3477H5869H3068H430 29When GOD, your God, cuts off the nations whose land you are invading, shoves them out of your way so that you displace them and settle in their land,H3068H430H3772H1471H6440H935H3423H3423H3427H776 30be careful that you don't get curious about them after they've been destroyed before you. Don't get fascinated with their gods, thinking, "I wonder what it was like for them, worshiping their gods. I'd like to try that myself."H8104H5367H310H310H8045H6440H1875H430H559H1471H5647H430H6213H1571 31Don't do this to GOD, your God. They commit every imaginable abomination with their gods. GOD hates it all with a passion. Why, they even set their children on fire as offerings to their gods!H6213H3068H430H8441H3068H8130H6213H430H1121H1323H8313H784H430 32Diligently do everything I command you, the way I command you: don't add to it; don't subtract from it.H1697H6680H8104H6213H3254H1639