12"These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.H2706H4941H8104H6213H776H3068H430H1H5414H3423H3117H2416H127 2"You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.H6H6H4725H1471H834H3423H5647H430H7311H2022H1389H7488H6086 3"And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.H5422H4196H7665H4676H8313H842H784H1438H6456H430H6H8034H4725 4"You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things.H6213H3068H430 5"But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go.H4725H3068H430H977H7626H7760H8034H7933H1875H935 6"There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.H935H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H5088H5071H1062H1241H6629 7"And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.H398H6440H3068H430H8055H4916H3027H1004H3068H430H1288 8"You shall not at all do as we are doing here today—every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes—H6213H6213H3117H376H3477H5869 9"for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.H935H4496H5159H3068H430H5414 10"But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety,H5674H3383H3427H776H3068H430H5157H5117H341H5439H3427H983 11"then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD.H4725H3068H430H977H8034H7931H935H6680H5930H2077H4643H8641H3027H4005H5088H5087H3068 12"And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you.H8055H6440H3068H430H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H3588H2506H5159 13"Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;H8104H5927H5930H4725H7200 14"but 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 all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike.H2076H398H1320H8179H5315H185H1293H3068H430H5414H2931H2889H398H6643H354 16"Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.H398H1818H8210H776H4325 17"You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, of your freewill offerings, or of the heave offering of your hand.H3201H398H8179H4643H1715H8492H3323H1062H1241H6629H5088H5087H5071H8641H3027 18"But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God chooses, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all to which you put your hands.H398H6440H3068H430H4725H3068H430H977H1121H1323H5650H519H3881H8179H8055H6440H3068H430H4916H3027 19"Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.H8104H5800H3881H3117H127 20"When the LORD your God enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, 'Let me eat meat,' because you long to eat meat, you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.H3068H430H7337H1366H1696H559H398H1320H5315H183H398H1320H398H1320H5315H185 21"If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock which the LORD has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your gates as much as your heart desires.H4725H3068H430H977H7760H8034H7368H2076H1241H6629H3068H5414H6680H398H8179H5315H185 22"Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them.H6643H354H398H398H2931H2889H398H3162 23"Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat.H2388H398H1818H1818H5315H398H5315H1320 24"You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth like water.H398H8210H776H4325 25"You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.H398H3190H1121H310H6213H3477H5869H3068 26"Only the holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.H6944H5088H5375H935H4725H3068H977 27"And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat 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 meat.H6213H5930H1320H1818H4196H3068H430H1818H2077H8210H4196H3068H430H398H1320 28"Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.H8104H8085H1697H6680H3190H1121H310H5704H5769H6213H2896H3477H5869H3068H430 29"When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land,H3068H430H3772H1471H6440H935H3423H3423H3427H776 30"take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.'H8104H5367H310H310H8045H6440H1875H430H559H1471H5647H430H6213H1571 31"You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.H6213H3068H430H8441H3068H8130H6213H430H1121H1323H8313H784H430 32"Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.H1697H6680H8104H6213H3254H1639
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