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Chapter 12 |
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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: |
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| 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. |
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9 | For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance,
which the LORD your God giveth you. |
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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; |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 inquire 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. |
