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Deuteronomy 12


Deuteronomy 12 - 1

And these are the orders and the judgments, which you shall guard to do in the land of which the God of your fathers gives to you by lot, all the days of which you live upon the land.

Deuteronomy 12 - 2

By destruction you shall destroy all the places in which serve their gods, whose lands you shall inherit them upon the mountains and upon the hills, and underneath every tree

Deuteronomy 12 - 3

And you shall raze their shrines, and break their monuments; and their sacred groves and the carvings of their gods you shall incinerate by fire; and you shall destroy their names from out of that place.

Deuteronomy 12 - 4

You shall not do so your God.

Deuteronomy 12 - 5

But in the place which ever should choose from all of your tribes to name his name there, and to be called upon even you shall seek after and enter there.

Deuteronomy 12 - 6

And you shall bring there the whole burnt-offerings of yours, and your sacrifices, and your tenths, and your vow offerings, and your voluntary offerings, and your acknowledgment offerings, the first-born of your oxen, and of your sheep.

Deuteronomy 12 - 7

And you shall eat there before your God, and you shall be glad in all the things of which ever you should put your hands, you and your houses, in so far as blessed

Deuteronomy 12 - 8

You shall not do according to all as many as we do here today each doing the pleasing thing before him.

Deuteronomy 12 - 9

not unto the present time for the rest and for the inheritance which our God gives you.

Deuteronomy 12 - 10

But you shall pass over the Jordan, and you shall dwell upon the land of which our God shall inherit to you; and he shall rest you from all your enemies round about; and you shall dwell with safety.

Deuteronomy 12 - 11

And there will be the place which ever should choose to be called upon there there you shall bring all as many things as I give charge to you today; your whole burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the first-fruits of your hands, and every choice thing of your gifts, as many as you should vow to the

Deuteronomy 12 - 12

And you shall be glad before your God, you and your sons, and your daughters, and your manservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite at your gates; for there is not to him a portion nor lot with you.

Deuteronomy 12 - 13

Take heed to yourself offer of your whole burnt-offerings in any place of which ever you should behold,

Deuteronomy 12 - 14

but only in the place which should choose it, in one of your cities there you shall offer your whole burnt-offerings, and there you shall do all as many things as I give charge to you today.

Deuteronomy 12 - 15

But in all your desire you shall sacrifice and shall eat meats according to the blessing of the lord your God which he gave to you in every city the unclean among you, and the clean the same as a doe or stag.

Deuteronomy 12 - 16

Except the blood you shall not eat upon the land; you shall pour it out as water.

Deuteronomy 12 - 17

You shall not be able to eat in your cities the tithe of your grain, and your wine, and your olive oil, the first-born of your oxen, and of your sheep, and all the vows, as many as you should have vowed, and your acknowledgment offerings, and the first-fruits of your hands.

Deuteronomy 12 - 18

But only before your God shall you eat them in the place in which ever should choose and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the foreigner in your cities. And you shall be glad before your God over all of whatsoever you should put upon

Deuteronomy 12 - 19

Take heed to yourself! that you should not abandon the Levite all the time, as much as you should live upon the land.

Deuteronomy 12 - 20

And if should widen your borders, just as he spoke to you, and you shall say, I will eat meats; if should desire so as to eat meats, in every desire of your soul, you shall eat meats.

Deuteronomy 12 - 21

And if at a farther distance from you place which ever should choose to call upon his name there, then you shall sacrifice from your oxen, and from your sheep what ever should give in which manner I gave charge to you; and you shall eat in your cities according to the desire of your soul.

Deuteronomy 12 - 22

As are eaten so shall you eat it; the unclean among you, and the clean likewise

Deuteronomy 12 - 23

Take heed strongly! to not eat blood, for its blood You shall not eat life with the meats.

Deuteronomy 12 - 24

You shall not eat blood; upon the earth you shall pour it out as water.

Deuteronomy 12 - 25

You shall not eat it, that good should happen to you, and your sons after you, if you should do the good and the pleasing thing before your God.

Deuteronomy 12 - 26

Except your holy things, which ever should come to you, and your vow offerings you shall come into the place which ever should choose to be called upon there.

Deuteronomy 12 - 27

And your whole burnt-offerings; the meats you shall offer upon the altar of the lord your God; but the blood of your sacrifices you shall pour towards the base of the altar of the lord your God, but the meats you may eat.

Deuteronomy 12 - 28

Guard and hearken! and you shall do all the words which I give charge to you, that good should happen to you, and to your sons through if you should do the pleasing and the good thing before your God.

Deuteronomy 12 - 29

But if should utterly destroy the nations into which you enter there to inherit their land from your presence, and you should inherit them, and dwell in their land;

Deuteronomy 12 - 30

take heed to yourself! you should not seek to follow them after their being utterly destroyed from your face. In no way should you seek after their gods, saying, How act with their gods shall act

Deuteronomy 12 - 31

You shall not do so your God; for the abominations which detested they did with their gods; for also their sons and their daughters they incinerated in fire their gods.

Deuteronomy 12 - 32

Every word which I give charge to you today, this you shall guard to do. You shall not add unto it, nor remove from it.