Deuteronomy 12 : 1 (MKJV)
These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers gives you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 12 : 2 (MKJV)
You shall completely destroy all the places in which the nations which you shall possess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Deuteronomy 12 : 3 (MKJV)
And you shall overthrow their altars and break their pillars, and burn their pillars with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and destroy their names out of that place.
Deuteronomy 12 : 4 (MKJV)
You shall not do so to Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 12 : 5 (MKJV)
But you shall seek to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, even to His dwelling place you shall seek, and there you shall come.
Deuteronomy 12 : 6 (MKJV)
And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will offerings, and the first-born of your herds and of your flocks.
Deuteronomy 12 : 7 (MKJV)
And there you shall eat before Jehovah your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households in which Jehovah your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 12 : 8 (MKJV)
You shall not do according to all that we do here today, each doing whatever is right in his own eyes.
Deuteronomy 12 : 9 (MKJV)
For you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which Jehovah your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 12 : 10 (MKJV)
But when you go over Jordan and live in the land which Jehovah your God gives you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies all around, so that you live in safety,
Deuteronomy 12 : 11 (MKJV)
then there shall be a place which Jehovah your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. There you shall 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 Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 12 : 12 (MKJV)
And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God; you, your sons, your daughters, your menservants, your female servants, and the Levite that is within your gates (because he has no part nor inheritance with you).
Deuteronomy 12 : 13 (MKJV)
Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see.
Deuteronomy 12 : 14 (MKJV)
But in the place which Jehovah shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
Deuteronomy 12 : 15 (MKJV)
However, with all your soul's desire you shall sacrifice and eat flesh in all your gates, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which He has given you, the clean and the unclean, one may eat, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
Deuteronomy 12 : 16 (MKJV)
Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the earth like water.
Deuteronomy 12 : 17 (MKJV)
You may not eat inside your gates the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the first-born of your herds or of your flock, or any of your vows which you vow, or your free-will offerings or the heave offering of your hand.
Deuteronomy 12 : 18 (MKJV)
But you must eat them before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God shall choose; you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite within your gates. And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God in all that you put your hand to.
Deuteronomy 12 : 19 (MKJV)
Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on the earth.
Deuteronomy 12 : 20 (MKJV)
When Jehovah your God shall make your border larger, as He has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul desires.
Deuteronomy 12 : 21 (MKJV)
If the place which Jehovah your God has chosen to put His name there is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatever your soul desires.
Deuteronomy 12 : 22 (MKJV)
Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so you shall eat them. The unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
Deuteronomy 12 : 23 (MKJV)
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.
Deuteronomy 12 : 24 (MKJV)
You shall not eat it. You shall pour it on the earth like water.
Deuteronomy 12 : 25 (MKJV)
You shall not eat it, so that it may go well with you and with your sons after you, when you shall do what is right in the sight of Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 12 : 26 (MKJV)
Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which Jehovah shall choose.
Deuteronomy 12 : 27 (MKJV)
And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Jehovah your God. And the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Jehovah your God, and you shall eat the flesh.
Deuteronomy 12 : 28 (MKJV)
Be careful to hear all these words which I command you, so that it may go well with you and with your sons after you forever, when you do the good and right in the sight of Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 12 : 29 (MKJV)
When Jehovah your God shall cut off the nations before you, where you go to possess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land,
Deuteronomy 12 : 30 (MKJV)
take heed to yourself that you do not become snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not ask about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, that I too may do likewise?
Deuteronomy 12 : 31 (MKJV)
You shall not do so to Jehovah your God. For every abomination to Jehovah, which He hates, they have done to their gods; even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy 12 : 32 (MKJV)
All the things I command you, be careful to do it. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
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