DE-12:1 These [are] the statutes and judgments, which ye shall
observe to do
in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to
possess it, all
the days that ye live upon the earth.
DE-12:2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the
nations which ye
shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and
upon the hills,
and under every green tree:
DE-12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their
pillars, and
burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven
images of their
gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
DE-12:4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
DE-12:5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose
out of all
your tribes to put his name there, [even] unto his habitation
shall ye seek,
and thither thou shalt come:
DE-12:6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and
your sacrifices,
and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows,
and your
freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your
flocks:
DE-12:7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye
shall rejoice
in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households,
wherein the LORD
thy God hath blessed thee.
DE-12:8 Ye shall not do after all [the things] that we do here
this day,
every man whatsoever [is] right in his own eyes.
DE-12:9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the
inheritance, which
the LORD your God giveth you.
DE-12:10 But [when] ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land
which the LORD
your God giveth you to inherit, and [when] he giveth you rest
from all your
enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
DE-12:11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God
shall choose to
cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I
command you;
your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the
heave offering
of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the
LORD:
DE-12:12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and
your sons,
and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants,
and the
Levite that [is] within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part
nor
inheritance with you.
DE-12:13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt
offerings in
every place that thou seest:
DE-12:14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of
thy tribes,
there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt
do all that I
command thee.
DE-12:15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all
thy gates,
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of
the LORD thy
God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat
thereof, as of
the roebuck, and as of the hart.
DE-12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon
the earth as
water.
DE-12:17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy
corn, or of
thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of
thy flock, nor
any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings,
or heave
offering of thine hand:
DE-12:18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the
place which
the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy
daughter, and thy
manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that [is] within
thy gates:
and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou
puttest thine
hands unto.
DE-12:19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite
as long as
thou livest upon the earth.
DE-12:20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he
hath promised
thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul
longeth to eat
flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
DE-12:21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put
his name
there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and
of thy flock,
which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and
thou shalt eat
in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
DE-12:22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou
shalt eat them:
the unclean and the clean shall eat [of] them alike.
DE-12:23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the
blood [is] the
life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
DE-12:24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the
earth as water.
DE-12:25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee,
and with thy
children after thee, when thou shalt do [that which is] right in
the sight of
the LORD.
DE-12:26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows,
thou shalt take,
and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose.
DE-12:27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh
and the blood,
upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy
sacrifices shall be
poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt
eat the flesh.
DE-12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee,
that it may
go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever,
when thou doest
[that which is] good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
DE-12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from
before thee,
whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them,
and dwellest in
their land;
DE-12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by
following them,
after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou
inquire not after
their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even
so will I do
likewise.
DE-12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every
abomination to
the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for
even their sons
and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
DE-12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it:
thou shalt not
add thereto, nor diminish from it.
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