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Deuteronomy 12:15-32
New International Version
Deuteronomy 12:15-32
New International Version
15 Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer,(A) according to the blessing the Lord your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it. 16 But you must not eat the blood;(B) pour(C) it out on the ground like water.(D) 17 You must not eat in your own towns the tithe(E) of your grain and new wine and olive oil,(F) or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give,(G) or your freewill offerings or special gifts.(H) 18 Instead, you are to eat(I) them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God will choose(J)—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice(K) before the Lord your God in everything you put your hand to. 19 Be careful not to neglect the Levites(L) as long as you live in your land.(M)
20 When the Lord your God has enlarged your territory(N) as he promised(O) you, and you crave meat(P) and say, “I would like some meat,” then you may eat as much of it as you want. 21 If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his Name(Q) is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.(R) 22 Eat them as you would gazelle or deer.(S) Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat. 23 But be sure you do not eat the blood,(T) because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.(U) 24 You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.(V) 25 Do not eat it, so that it may go well(W) with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right(X) in the eyes of the Lord.
26 But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give,(Y) and go to the place the Lord will choose. 27 Present your burnt offerings(Z) on the altar of the Lord your God, both the meat and the blood. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat(AA) the meat. 28 Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well(AB) with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
29 The Lord your God will cut off(AC) before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land,(AD) 30 and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared(AE) by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”(AF) 31 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates.(AG) They even burn their sons(AH) and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.(AI)
32 See that you do all I command you; do not add(AJ) to it or take away from it.[a]
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 12:32 In Hebrew texts this verse (12:32) is numbered 13:1.
Deuteronomy 12:15-32
King James Version
Deuteronomy 12:15-32
King James Version
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.
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