Deuteronomy:12:5-21

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* But unto the place which the Lord your God may choose out of all your tribes to put his name there , even unto his habitation shall ye repair , and thither shalt thou come ; * And ye shall bring thither your burnt –offerings , and your sacrifices , and your tithes , and the heave –offering of your hand , and your vows , and your freewill –offerings , and the first –born of your herds and of your flocks ; * And ye shall eat there before the Lord your God , and ye shall rejoice with all the acquisition of your hand , ye and your households , wherewith the Lord thy God may have blessed thee . * Ye shall not do after all the manner that we do here this day , every one whatsoever is right in his own eyes . * For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance , which the Lord thy God giveth thee . * But ye will go over the Jordan , and dwell in the land which the Lord your God causeth you to inherit , and he will give you rest from all your enemies round about , so that ye may dwell in safety . * And then shall it be , that the place which the Lord your God will 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 may vow unto the Lord ; * And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God , ye , and your sons , and your daughters , and your men –servants , and your maid –servants , and the Levite who is within your gates ; because he hath not any portion nor inheritance with you . * Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt –offerings in every place which thou mayest see ; * But in the place which the Lord will choose in one of thy tribes , there shalt thou offer thy burnt –offerings , and there shalt thou do all that I command thee . * Notwithstanding , according to all the longing of thy soul , mayest thou kill and eat flesh , according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee , in all thy gates : the unclean and the clean may eat thereof , as of the roebuck , and as of the hart . * Only the blood shall ye not eat : upon the earth shall ye pour it out as water . * Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn , or of thy wine , or of thy oil , nor the first –born of thy herds or of thy flocks , nor any of thy vows which thou mayest vow , nor thy freewill –offerings , and the heave –offering of thy hand ; * But before the Lord thy God must thou eat them in the place which the Lord thy God may choose , thou , and thy son , and thy daughter , and thy man –servant , and thy maid –servant , and the Levite who is within thy gates ; and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God with all the acquisition of thy hand . * Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land . * When the Lord thy God will enlarge thy border , as he hath spoken unto thee , and thou dost say , I wish to eat flesh , because thy soul longeth to eat flesh : then mayest thou , according to all the longing of thy soul , eat flesh . * If the place which the Lord thy God may choose to put his name there be too far for thee : then mayest thou kill of thy herds and of thy flocks , which the Lord hath given thee , as I have commanded thee ; and thou shalt eat in thy gates according to all the longing of thy soul .

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