1These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yehovah, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth. 2You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place. 4You shall not do so to Yehovah your God. 5But to the place which Yehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come; 6and there you shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock: 7and there you shall eat before Yehovah your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yehovah your God has blessed you. 8You shall not do according to all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes; 9for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yehovah your God gives you. 10But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yehovah your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you dwell in safety; 11then it shall come to pass that to the place which Yehovah 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 Yehovah. 12And you shall rejoice before Yehovah your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 13Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt-offerings in every place that you see; 14but in the place which Yehovah shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt-offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you. 15Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yehovah your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart. 16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out upon the earth as water. 17You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of your hand; 18but you shall eat them before Yehovah your God in the place which Yehovah your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yehovah your God in all that you put your hand to. 19Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. 20When Yehovah your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your soul. 21If the place which Yehovah your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yehovah has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul. 22Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike. 23Only be sure that you do not eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. 24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out upon the earth as water. 25You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yehovah. 26Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yehovah shall choose; 27and you shall offer your burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Yehovah your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Yehovah your God; and you shall eat the flesh. 28Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you for ever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yehovah your God. 29When Yehovah your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you are going in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; 30take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31You shall not do so to Yehovah your God: for every abomination to Yehovah, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they burn in the fire to their gods. 32Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you shall not add to it, nor diminish from it.