12"These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth.H2706H4941H8104H6213H776H3068H430H1H5414H3423H3117H2416H127 2"You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.H6H6H4725H1471H834H3423H5647H430H7311H2022H1389H7488H6086 3"And you shall tear down their altars and smash their [sacred] pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods, and you shall obliterate their name from that place.H5422H4196H7665H4676H8313H842H784H1438H6456H430H6H8034H4725 4"You shall not act like this toward the LORD your God.H6213H3068H430 5"But you shall seek [the] [LORD] at the place which the LORD your God shall choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.H4725H3068H430H977H7626H7760H8034H7933H1875H935 6"And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your herd and of your flock.H935H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H5088H5071H1062H1241H6629 7"There also you and your households shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the LORD your God has blessed you.H398H6440H3068H430H8055H4916H3027H1004H3068H430H1288 8"You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man [doing] whatever is right in his own eyes;H6213H6213H3117H376H3477H5869 9for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.H935H4496H5159H3068H430H5414 10"When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around [you] so that you live in security,H5674H3383H3427H776H3068H430H5157H5117H341H5439H3427H983 11then it shall come about that the place in which the LORD your God shall choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the LORD.H4725H3068H430H977H8034H7931H935H6680H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H4005H5088H5087H3068 12"And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.H8055H6440H3068H430H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H3588H2506H5159 13"Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every [cultic] place you see,H8104H5927H5930H4725H7200 14but in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.H4725H3068H977H259H7626H5927H5930H6213H6680 15"However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.H2076H398H1320H8179H5315H185H1293H3068H430H5414H2931H2889H398H6643H354 16"Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.H398H1818H8210H776H4325 17"You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or new wine, or oil, or the first-born of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand.H3201H398H8179H4643H1715H8492H3323H1062H1241H6629H5088H5087H5071H8641H3027 18"But you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all your undertakings.H398H6440H3068H430H4725H3068H430H977H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H8055H6440H3068H430H4916H3027 19"Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.H8104H5800H3881H3117H127 20"When the LORD your God extends your border as He has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat meat,' because you desire to eat meat, [then] you may eat meat, whatever you desire.H3068H430H7337H1366H1696H559H398H1320H5315H183H398H1320H398H1320H5315H185 21"If the place which the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates whatever you desire.H4725H3068H430H977H7760H8034H7368H2076H1241H6629H3068H5414H6680H398H8179H5315H185 22"Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you shall eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.H6643H354H398H398H2931H2889H398H3162 23"Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.H2388H398H1818H1818H5315H398H5315H1320 24"You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.H398H8210H776H4325 25"You shall not eat it, in order that it may be well with you and your sons after you, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the LORD.H398H3190H1121H310H6213H3477H5869H3068 26"Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.H6944H5088H5375H935H4725H3068H977 27"And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.H6213H5930H1320H1818H4196H3068H430H1818H2077H8210H4196H3068H430H398H1320 28"Be careful to listen to all these words which I command you, in order that it may be well with you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing 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 which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,H3068H430H3772H1471H6440H935H3423H3423H3427H776 30beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ' How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise? 'H8104H5367H310H310H8045H6440H1875H430H559H1471H5647H430H6213H1571 31"You shall not behave thus toward the LORD your God, for every abominable act which the LORD hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.H6213H3068H430H8441H3068H8130H6213H430H1121H1323H8313H784H430 32"Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.H1697H6680H8104H6213H3254H1639
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