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1 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. 2 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: 3 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. 4 Ye 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 ye seek, and thith­er thou shalt come: 6 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: 7 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. 8 Ye shall not do af­ter all the things that we do here this day, ev­ery man what­so­ev­er is right in his own eyes. 9 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: 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.