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and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth thee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But when ye go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God causeth you to inherit, and He giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>then it shall come to pass that the 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 offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates, forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inheritance with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, 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 gazelle, and as of the hart. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the offering of thy hand; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>but thou shalt 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 man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>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 desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>If the place which the LORD thy God shall choose 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 within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Howbeit as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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 eyes of the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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 against the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>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 eyes of the LORD thy God. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying: ‘How used these nations to serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>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 do they burn in the fire to their gods. <p class="section"></p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-32.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>All this word which I command you, that shall ye observe to do; thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Deuteronomy 11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../deuteronomy/13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Deuteronomy 13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/deuteronomy/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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