1 ¶ These are the statutes and judgments, which you shall be careful to do in the land, which the LORD God of your fathers gives you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.

2 You shall utterly destroy all the places, in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree:

3 And you shall tear down their altars, and smash their pillars, and burn their sacred trees with fire; and you shall cut down the graven images of their gods, and wipe out their names from that place.

4 You shall not worship the LORD your God that way.

5 ¶ But you shall seek the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name, and make his habitation, and you shall go there:

6 And you shall bring your burnt offerings there, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and your personal offerings, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks:

7 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

8 You are not to do as we are now doing, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes.

9 For you have not yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God gives you.

10 But when you cross over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety;

11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; there you shall 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 you vow to the LORD:

12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite who is within your gates; inasmuch as he has no part or inheritance with you.

13 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see:

14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

15 However you may kill and eat flesh in any of your towns, whatever your soul desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the roebuck, and as of the deer.

16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth as water.

17 You may not eat the tithe of your corn within your gates, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herds or of your flock, or any of your vows which you vowed, or your freewill offerings, or personal offerings:

18 But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you apply yourselves to do.

19 Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on the earth.

20 When the LORD your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul desires.

21 If the place where the LORD your God has chosen to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill from your herd or from your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your towns whatever your soul desires.

22 You shall eat them, even as the roebuck and the deer is eaten: the unclean and the clean alike shall eat of them.

23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.

24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth as water.

25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which the LORD shall choose:

27 And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh 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 flesh.

28 Observe and hear all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

29 When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations from before you, which you go to possess, and you replace them, and live in their land;

30 Take heed to yourself that you are not snared by following them, after they have been destroyed from before you; and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? I will do as they did.

31 You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way: for they have done for their gods every detestable thing that the LORD hates; for they have even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

32 Whatever thing I command you, be careful to do it: you shall not add to it, or take from it.