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Chapter 12  
     
1.
 These are the statutes and judgments, which you shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers gives you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth.
  
2.
 You shall utterly destroy all the places, in which the nations which you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
  
3.
 And 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 do so unto the Lord your God.
  
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 you seek, and there you shall come:
  
6.
 And 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.
 And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand unto, you and your households, in which the Lord thy God has blessed thee.
  
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 the Lord your God gives you.
  
10.
 But when you go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God 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 the Lord your God 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 unto the Lord:
  
12.
 And you 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; for as much as he has no part nor inheritance with you.
  
13.
 Take heed to thyself that you offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that you seest:
  
14.
 But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes, there you shall offer thy burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command thee.
  
15.
 Notwithstanding you may kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusts after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he has given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
  
16.
 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.
  
17.
 Thou may 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 you vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of your hand:
  
18.
 But you 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 you shall rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that you puttest your hands unto.
  
19.
 Take heed to thyself that you forsake not the Levite as long as you livest upon the earth.
  
20.
 When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he has promised thee, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusts after.
  
21.
 If the place which the Lord thy God has chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then you shall kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the Lord has given thee, as I have commanded thee, and you shall eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusts after.
  
22.
 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so you shall eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
  
23.
 Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.
  
24.
 Thou shall not eat it; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.
  
25.
 Thou shall not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.
  
26.
 Only thy holy things which you hast, and thy vows, you shall take, and go unto the place which the Lord shall choose:
  
27.
 And you shall 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 you shall eat the flesh.
  
28.
 Observe and hear all these words which I Moses command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after you for ever, when you doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.
  
29.
 When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither you goest to possess them, and you succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
  
30.
 Take heed to thyself that you be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that you enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
  
31.
 Thou shall not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
  
32.
 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
  

 
 
 

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