1“These are the statutes and ordinances that you must be careful to obey, all the days that you live in the land that the LORD God of your fathers is giving you. 2You must utterly destroy all the places where the nations that you shall drive out served their gods - on its high mountains, its hills, and under every green tree; 3And you must break down their altars and pillars, and burn their idols; cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe their names from those places. 4You must not worship the LORD your God in their way. 5But you are to seek the place that the LORD your God shall choose, out of all your tribes, to put His name, the place of His habitation: 6And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, special offerings, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks: 7And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you have accomplished - you and your households - in which the LORD your God has blessed you. 8You must not do as you do here today, where everyone does whatever seems right in his own eyes. 9For you have not yet reached the place of rest, and the inheritance, which the LORD your God is giving you. 10But when you cross the Jordan River, and settle in the land which the LORD your God gives for your inheritance, and when He gives you rest from all the enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety; 11Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to put His name and dwell there; to that place shall you bring all your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, special gifts, and any choice possessions which you vow to give unto the LORD: 12And you shall rejoice there before the LORD your God - you, your sons, your daughters, your menservants, your maidservants, and the Levite that lives in your town; since he does not share in your inheritance with you. 13Take heed that you do not offer your burnt offerings anywhere that you may choose: 14But, rather, in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your tribes: there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you must do all that I command. 15But you may butcher and eat whatever animals the LORD your God has given you in any of your towns, whenever you desire. All of you, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat it, such as the roebuck, and the deer. 16But you must not eat the blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.”

17“You may not eat within your own towns the tithe of your grain, new wine, your oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, nor anything which you have vowed to give, nor your freewill offerings, or special gifts; 18But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place where the LORD your God shall choose - you, your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, and the Levite that lives in your town; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you accomplish. 19Take heed that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live upon the earth. 20When the LORD your God has enlarged your territory, as He has promised you, and you hunger for meat, you may eat as much as you desire. 21If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you shall slaughter animals from your herd or flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat whatever you want in your hometowns. 22This includes the gazelle and the hart (deer); both the ceremonially clean and unclean; you may eat them alike. 23Just be sure that you do not eat the blood; for the blood is the life, and you may not eat the life with the flesh. 24But you must pour it upon the ground like water. 25You must not consume the blood; so that it may go well with you, and your children after you, when you shall do what is right in the eyes of the LORD. 26But you shall take your sacred gifts which you have, and your vows, to the place which the LORD shall choose: 27And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD your God: and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD your God, and then you may eat the meat. 28Be sure to hear and abide by all these words which I command you, so that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.”

29“When the LORD your God cuts off the nations before you, where you invade and dispossess them, 30Take care that you are not snared by following their worship rituals after they are driven out from before you; and are not curious about their gods, and say, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? Maybe I will do likewise.’ 31You must not worship the LORD your God in such ways: for they have done every abomination with their gods that your God, hates: they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods! 32Whatever I command you to do, you must not add to it, nor take anything away from it.”