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you shall cut down the carved <i>and</i> sculpted images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You shall not act like this toward the LORD your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But you shall seek <i>the L<i>ORD</i></i> at the place which the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to establish His <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>Name there for His dwelling [place], and there you shall come [to worship Him]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive (pledged, vowed) offerings, your freewill (voluntary) offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And there you and your households shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all to which you put your hand, in which the LORD your God has blessed you. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“You shall not do at all what we are doing here [in the camp] today, every man doing whatever is right in his [own] eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For you have not yet come to the resting place and to the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>then it shall come about that the place which the LORD your God will choose for His Name [and Presence] to dwell; there you shall bring everything that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes and the [voluntary] contribution of your hand [as a first gift from the fruits of the ground], and all your choice votive offerings which you vow to the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your [city] gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every [cultic] place you see, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>but [only] in the place which the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do everything that I am commanding you. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your [city] gates, whatever you wish, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you [as His generous provision for daily life]. The [ceremonially] unclean and the clean may eat it, such as the gazelle and the deer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-16.htm"><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="/deuteronomy/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You are forbidden to eat within your [city] 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, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, and your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your [city] gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>that you undertake. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Be careful that you do not neglect the Levite [who serves God] <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>as long as you live in your land. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“When the LORD your God extends your territory, as He promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you want to eat meat, then you may eat meat, whatever <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>you wish. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>If the place which the LORD your God chooses to put His Name (Presence) is too far away from you, then you may slaughter [animals] from your herd or flock which the LORD has given you, just as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your [city] gates whatever you wish. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat it [but not make it an offering]; the [ceremonially] unclean and the clean alike may eat it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life (soul), and you shall not eat the life with the meat. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-24.htm"><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="/deuteronomy/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>You shall not eat it, so that all may be well with you and with your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the sight of the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>However, you shall take your holy things which you have [to offer] and your votive (pledged, vowed) offerings, you shall take <i>them</i> and go to the place which the LORD will choose. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the meat. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“Be careful to listen to all these words which I am commanding you, so that it may be well with you and with your <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[f]</a></span>children after you forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“When the LORD your God cuts off <i>and</i> destroys before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and settle in their land, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>beware that you are not lured (ensnared) into following them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods, so that I too may do likewise?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>You shall not behave this way toward the LORD your God, for they have done for their gods every repulsive thing which the LORD hates; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire [as sacrifices] to their gods. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“Everything I command you, you shall be careful to do it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> The “Name” of God is equivalent to His gracious presence in passages such as this one. 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