Deuteronomy Chapter 12

• Deuteronomy 12:1
  Deuteronomy.
• Deuteronomy 12:2
  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 ...
• Deuteronomy 12:3
  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...
• Deuteronomy 12:4
  You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of the...
• Deuteronomy 12:5
  You shall not do so to the LORD your God.
• Deuteronomy 12:6
  But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come...
• Deuteronomy 12:7
  You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the first...
• Deuteronomy 12:8
  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 ...
• Deuteronomy 12:9
  You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
• Deuteronomy 12:10
  for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God gives you.
• Deuteronomy 12:11
  But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies aroun...
• Deuteronomy 12:12
  then it shall happen that to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I comman...
• Deuteronomy 12:13
  You shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within ...
• Deuteronomy 12:14
  Be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
• Deuteronomy 12:15
  but in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command y...
• Deuteronomy 12:16
  Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the LORD your God’s blessing which he has given y...
• Deuteronomy 12:17
  Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
• Deuteronomy 12:18
  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 an...
• Deuteronomy 12:19
  but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, yo...
• Deuteronomy 12:20
  Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
• Deuteronomy 12:21
  When the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may...
• Deuteronomy 12:22
  If the place which the LORD your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the L...
• Deuteronomy 12:23
  Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
• Deuteronomy 12:24
  Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.
• Deuteronomy 12:25
  You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
• Deuteronomy 12:26
  You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in the LORD’s eyes.
• Deuteronomy 12:27
  Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD shall choose.
• Deuteronomy 12:28
  You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the LORD your God’s altar. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the LO...
• Deuteronomy 12:29
  Observe and hear 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...
• Deuteronomy 12:30
  When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
• Deuteronomy 12:31
  be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How ...
• Deuteronomy 12:32
  You shall not do so to the LORD your God; for every abomination to the LORD, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their so...
• Deuteronomy 12:33
  Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.