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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.
02 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:
03 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.
04 Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God.
05 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:
06 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:
07 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.
08 Ye shall not do after all the things that we
do here this day, every man whatsoever is right
in his own eyes.
09 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to
the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth
you.
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;
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:
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.
13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy
burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:
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.
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.
16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour
it upon the earth as water.
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:
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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.
19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the
Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon
the earth as water.
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.
26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy
vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place
which the Lord shall choose:
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.
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.
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;
30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared
by following them, after that they be destroyed
from before thee; and that thou enquire not after
their gods, saying, How did these nations serve
their gods? even so will I do likewise.
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.
32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do
it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from
it.
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