Deuteronomy
Chapter 12
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1These are the Rules that are meant to last. and the rules that you shall keep to do in the land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the God of your fathers, has given you to take possession of, all the days that you live on the soil.
2You shall destroy, destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
3You shall tear down their altars, break their standing stones, burn their Asherah posts with fire, and cut down the carved images of their gods, and you shall wipe out their name from that place.
4You shall not do so to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
5But to the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God chooses out of all your tribes, to put his name there, to his dwelling you shall seek, and you shall come there.
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Shikhen is his dwelling, the place he settles his name.
6You shall bring there your whole offerings, your sacrifices, your tenths, the contribution of your hand, your vows, your free gifts, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.
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Olah is a whole offering. Zevach is a sacrifice. Ma’aser is a tenth, not a later tax name. Terumah is a contribution. Neder is a vow. Nedavah is a free gift.
7You shall eat there before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and you shall rejoice in all that your hand has sent out, you and your households, because God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God has blessed you.
8You shall not do as we are doing here today, each man whatever is right in his own eyes.
9For you have not yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you.
10You shall cross the Jordan and live in the land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give you rest from all your enemies around, and you shall live in safety.
11Then the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God chooses to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you, your whole offerings, your sacrifices, your tenths, the contribution of your hand, and all the choice of your vows that you vow to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
12You shall rejoice before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, you, your sons, your daughters, your male slaves, your female slaves, and the Levite who is in your gates, for he has no share or inheritance with you.
13Keep yourself, so that you do not offer your whole offerings in every place you see.
14But in the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your whole offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.
15Only, whenever your life craves it, you may slaughter and eat meat, according to the blessing of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God that he has given you, in all your gates. The unclean and the clean may eat it, like the gazelle and the deer.
16Only the blood you shall not eat. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
17You may not eat in your gates the tenth of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, or the firstborn of your herd and your flock, or any of your vows that you vow, or your free gifts, or the contribution of your hand.
18But before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God you shall eat them, in the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God chooses, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, and the Levite who is in your gates, and you shall rejoice before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God in all that your hand sends out.
19Keep yourself, so that you do not forsake the Levite all your days on your soil.
20When God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God widens your border, as he spoke to you, and you say, I will eat meat, because your life craves to eat meat, you may eat meat whenever your life craves it.
21If the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God chooses to put his name is too far from you, you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat in your gates whenever your life craves it.
22As the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat it. The unclean and the clean together may eat it.
23Only be firm not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
24You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
25You shall not eat it, so that it goes well for you and for your children after you, when you do what is right in God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s eyes.
26Only your holy things that you have, and your vows, you shall take up and come to the place that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. chooses.
27You shall offer your whole offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, and the meat you shall eat.
28Keep and listen to all these words that I am commanding you, so that it goes well for you and for your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
29When God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God cuts off the nations that you are going to, to dispossess them, from before you, and you dispossess them and live in their land,
30keep yourself, so that you are not snared after them, after they are destroyed from before you, and so that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.
31You shall not do so to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, for every Something God hates and will not accept. of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., which he hates, they have done for their gods. Even their sons and their daughters they burn in the fire for their gods.
32Every word that I am commanding you, you shall keep to do it. You shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it.
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Leningrad numbers this sentence 13:1. English Bibles number it 12:32.