1 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye
shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee
to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
2 Ye
shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall
possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and
under every green tree:
3 And
ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves
with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy
the names of them out of that place.
4 Ye
shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
5 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:
6 And
thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your
tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill
offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
7 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.
8 Ye
shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man
whatsoever is right
in his own eyes.
9 For
ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your
God giveth you.
10 But when ye
go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to
inherit, and when he
giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
11 Then
there shall be a 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 heave offering of your
hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
12 And
ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your
daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within
your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
13 Take
heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that
thou seest:
14 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.
15 Notwithstanding
thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth
after, 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 roebuck, and as of the
hart.
16 Only
ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
17 Thou
mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of
thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows
which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
18 But
thou must 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 manservant, and thy
maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt
rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
19 Take
heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon
the earth.
20 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 longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest
eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
21 If
the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen 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 in thy gates
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
22 Even
as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and
the clean shall eat of them alike.
23 Only
be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the
life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
24 Thou
shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
25 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 sight of the LORD.
26 Only
thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the
place which the LORD shall choose:
27 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 upon
the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
28 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 sight of the LORD thy God.
29 When
the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest
to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
30 Take
heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be
destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying,
How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
31 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 they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
32 What
thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor
diminish from it.
