Deuteronomy:12

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* These are the precepts and judgments , that you must do in the land , which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee , to possess it all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth . * Destroy all the places in which the nations , that you shall possess , worshipped their gods upon high mountains , and hills , and under every shady tree : * Overthrow their altars , and break down their statues , burn their groves with fire , and break their idols in pieces : destroy their names out of those places . * You shall not do so to the Lord your God : * But you shall come to the place , which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes , to put his name there , and to dwell in it : * And you shall offer in that place your holocausts and victims , the tithes and firstfruits of your hands and your vows and gifts , the firstborn of your herds and your sheep . * And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God : and you shall rejoice in all things , whereunto you shall put your hand , you and your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you . * You shall not do there the things we do here this day , every man that which seemeth good to himself . * For until this present time you are not come to refit , and to the possession , which the Lord your God will give you . * You shall pass over the Jordan , and shall dwell in the land which the Lord your God will give you , that you may have rest from all enemies round about : and may dwell without any fear , * In the place , which the Lord your God shall choose , that his name may be therein . Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you , holocausts , and victims , and tithes , and the firstfruits of your hands : and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord . * There shall you feast before the Lord your God , you and your sons and your daughters , your menservants and maid - servants , and the Levite that dwelleth in your cities . For he hath no other part and possession among you . * Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see : * But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer sacrifices . and shalt do all that I command thee . * But if thou desirest to eat , and the eating of flesh delight thee , kill , and eat according to the blessing of the Lord thy God , which he hath given thee , in thy cities : whether it be unclean , that is to say , having blemish or defect : or clean , that is to say , sound and without blemish , such as may be offered , as the roe , and the hart , shalt thou eat it : * Only the blood thou shalt not eat , but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water . * Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the tithes of thy corn , and thy wine , and thy oil , the firstborn of thy herds and thy cattle , nor any thing that thou vowest , and that thou wilt offer voluntarily , and the firstfruits of thy hands : * But thou shalt 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 maidservant , and the Levite that dwelleth in thy cities : and thou shalt rejoice and be refreshed before the Lord thy God in all things , whereunto thou shalt put thy hand . * Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou livest in the land . * When the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders , as he hath spoken to thee , and thou wilt eat the flesh that thy soul desireth : * And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose , that his name should be there , be far off , thou shalt kill of thy herds and of thy docks , as I have commanded thee , and shalt eat in thy towns , as it pleaseth thee . * Even as the roe and the hart is eaten , so shalt thou eat them : both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike . * Only beware of this , that thou eat not the blood , for the blood is for the soul : and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh : * But thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water , * That it may be well with thee and thy children after thee , when thou shalt do that which is pleasing in the sight of the Lord . * But the things which thou hast sanctified and vowed to the Lord , thou shalt take , and shalt come to the place which the Lord shall choose : * And shalt offer thy oblations the flesh and the blood upon the altar of the Lord thy God : the blood of thy victims thou shalt pour on the altar : and the flesh thou thyself shalt eat . * Observe and hear all the things that I command thee , that it may be well with thee and thy children after thee for ever , when thou shalt do what is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God . * When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the nations , which then shalt go in to possess , and when thou shalt possess them , and dwell in their land : * Beware lest thou imitate them , after they are destroyed at thy coming in , and lest thou seek after their ceremonies , saying : As these nations have worshipped their gods , so will I also worship . * Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God . For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth , offering their sons and daughters , and burning them with fire . * What I command thee , that only do thou to the Lord : neither add any thing , nor diminish .

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