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<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God is giving you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around <i>you</i> so that you live in security, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>then it shall come about that the place in which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>And you shall rejoice before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every <i>cultic</i> place you see, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>but in the place which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>But you shall eat them before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God in the place which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God in all your undertakings. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>When the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God extends your border as He has promised you, and you say, I will eat meat, because you desire to eat meat, <i>then</i> you may eat meat, whatever you desire. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>If the place which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates whatever you desire. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>You shall not eat it, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> chooses. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God, and you shall eat the flesh.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Be careful to listen to all these words which I command you, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>When the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>You shall not behave thus toward the L<font size="1">ORD</font> your God, for every abominable act which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/12-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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