1 These are the statutes and judgments, which you shall observe and do in the land which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), God ('Elohiym) of your fathers gives you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
2
You shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which you shall
possess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under
every green tree:
3
You shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their
groves with fire, and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and
destroy the names of them out of that place.
4
You shall not sacrifice just anywhere to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym).
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But only in the place which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) shall
choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, seek His habitation, and
there you shall come:
6
There you 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:
7
There you shall eat before I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym), and you
shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households,
wherein I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) has blessed you.
8
You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man
whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
9
For you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which I AM (the
LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) gives you.
10
But when you go over The Descender (Jordan) and dwell in the land which I AM
(the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) gives you to inherit, and when He gives
you rest from all your enemies round about so that you dwell in safety;
11
Then there shall be a place which I AM (the LORD,
Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) shall choose to cause His name to dwell there;
there shall you 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 you vow to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah):
12
And you shall rejoice before I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym), you,
and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants,
and the Child of Joined To (Levite) that are within your gates; because he has no
part nor inheritance with you.
13
Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place
that you see:
14
But in the place which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) shall choose in one of your
tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all
that I command you.
15
Notwithstanding you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatsoever your
soul desires, according to the blessing of I AM (the
LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym), which He has given you: the unclean and
the clean may eat thereof, as you do with the gazelle,
and the deer.
16
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth as water.
17
You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your corn, or of your wine, or
of your oil, or the firstlings of your herds or of your flock, nor any of your
vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, or heave offering of your
hand:
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But you must eat them before I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) in
the place which the Lord your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your
daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Child of Joined To
(Levite) that is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) in all
that you put your hands to.
19
Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Children of Joined To (Levites)
as long as you live on the earth.
20
When I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) shall enlarge your border, as
he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh because your soul
longs to eat flesh; you mayest eat flesh, whatsoever your soul desires.
21
If the place which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God
(‘Elohiym) has chosen to put His name there be too far from you, then you shall
kill of your herd and of your flock, which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) has given you,
as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatsoever your soul desires.
22
Even as the gazelle, and the deer is eaten, so you shall eat them: the unclean
and the clean shall eat of them alike.
23
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood: for the blood is the life, and you
may not eat the life with the flesh.
24
You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth as water.
25
You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children
after you, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of I AM (the
LORD, Yehovah).
26
Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to
the place which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) shall choose:
27
And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh, and the blood, on the altar
of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym): and the blood of your
sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your
God (‘Elohiym), and you shall eat the flesh.
28
Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you,
and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and
right in the sight of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym).
29
When I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) shall cut off the nations
from before you, where you go to possess them, and you succeed them and dwell
in their land;
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Take heed to yourself that you be not snared by following them after they are destroyed
from before you; and that you enquire not after their gods
(‘elohiym), saying: How did these nations serve their gods (‘elohiym)? even
so, will I do likewise.
31
You shall not do so to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your
God (‘Elohiym): for every abomination to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), which He
hates, have they done to their gods (‘elohiym); because they have burnt their
sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods (‘elohiym).
32
Whatsoever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor
diminish from it.
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