1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:
3 and you shall break down their altars, and smash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.
4 You shall not do so to the Lord your God.
5 But to the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek as his habitation, and there you shall come;
6 and 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 firstborn of your herd and of your flock:
7 and there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
8 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God gives you.
10 But when you go over the Jordan, and settle in the land which the Lord your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety;
11 The Lord will choose a single place where he is to be worshiped, and there you must bring to him everything that I have commanded: your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, and those special gifts that you have promised to the Lord.
12 You shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
13 Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
14 but in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
15 But you are free to kill and eat your animals wherever you live. You may eat as many as the LORD gives you. All of you, whether ritually clean or unclean, may eat them, just as you would eat the meat of deer or antelope.
16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn 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;
18 but you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you put your hand to.
19 Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
20 When the Lord your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat meat, because you desire to eat meat; you may eat meat as much as your soul desires.
21 If the place which the Lord your God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates as much as your soul desires.
22 Anyone, ritually clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as he would eat the meat of deer or antelope.
23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which the Lord shall choose:
27 and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God; and you shall eat the flesh.
28 Hear and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
29 When the Lord your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and settle in their land;
30 after the Lord destroys those nations, make sure that you don't follow their religious practices, because that would be fatal. Don't try to find out how they worship their gods, so that you can worship in the same way.
31 Do not worship the LORD your God in the way they worship their gods, for in the worship of their gods they do all the disgusting things that the LORD hates. They even sacrifice their children in the fires on their altars.
32 Do everything that I have commanded you; do not add anything to it or take anything from it.