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<span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which Yahweh your God is giving you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now you will cross the Jordan and live in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you to inherit. And He will give you rest from all your enemies around <i>you</i> so that you live in security. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then it will be that the place in which Yahweh your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And you shall be glad before Yahweh your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Beware, lest you offer your burnt offerings in every <i>cultic</i> place you see, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“However, you may sacrifice and eat meat within any of your gates, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>whatever you desire, according to the blessing of Yahweh 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="/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 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 <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>contribution of your hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall be glad before Yahweh your God in all that you send forth your hand <i>to do</i>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Beware lest you forsake the Levite all your days upon your land. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“When Yahweh your God enlarges your territory as He has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>you desire to eat meat, <i>then</i> you may eat meat, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>whatever you desire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>If the place where Yahweh your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you, then you may sacrifice of your herd and flock which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>whatever you desire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-22.htm"><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="/deuteronomy/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Only be strong <i>in yourselves</i> not to eat the blood, for the blood is the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>life, and you shall not eat the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>life with the flesh. <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 it may be well with you and your sons after you, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-26.htm"><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 Yahweh chooses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God, and you shall eat the flesh. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-28.htm"><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 Yahweh your God. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“When Yahweh your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and inhabit their land, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>beware lest you be ensnared <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and lest you inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>You shall not do thus toward Yahweh your God, for every abominable act which Yahweh hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Whatever I am commanding you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Lit <i>ground</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Wooden symbols of a female deity<br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i>heave offering</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>heave offering</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Lit <i>in every desire of your soul</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> Lit <i>heave offering</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>your soul desires</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>in every desire of your soul</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Lit <i>in every desire of your soul</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>soul</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>soul</i><br><span class="fnverse">30</span> Lit <i>after them</i><br><span class="fnverse">32</span> Lit <i>Everything that</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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