Deuteronomy 12:1-14 ▼

1 These are the statutes and ordinances that you? shall be careful to observe in the land that YHWH, God of your fathers, is giving to you to possess all the days that you? live on the earth.

2 You? shall utterly destroy all the places where 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 their pillars, and their Asherah poles you? shall burn with the fire, and the carved images of their gods you? shall cut down, and you? shall destroy their names from that place.

4 You? shall not do thus to YHWH your? God.

5 For rather, unto the place where YHWH your? God chooses out of all your? tribes to establish His Name as His dwelling, you? shall seek and you shall go there.

6 And you? shall bring there your? burnt offerings, and your? sacrifices, and your? tithes, and the contributions of your? hands, and your? vowed offerings, and your? freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your? herds and your? flocks.

7 And you? shall eat there before the face of YHWH your? God, and you? shall rejoice in all the sending out of your? hands—you? and your? households—with which YHWH your God has blessed you.

8 You? shall not do at all as we are doing here today—every man, whatever is right in his own eyes.

9 For you? have not come as yet to the rest and the inheritance that YHWH your God is giving to you.

10 And you? will pass over the Jordan and dwell in the land that YHWH your? God is giving you? to inherit, and He will give rest to you? from all your? enemies round about, so that you? dwell in safety,

11 and there will be the place where YHWH your? God chooses for His Name to dwell in it there; there you? shall bring all that I command you?—your? burnt offerings, and your? sacrifices, your? tithes, and the contributions of your? hands, and all your choice offerings that you? vow to YHWH.

12 And you? shall rejoice before the face of YHWH your? God—you?, and your? sons, and your? daughters, and your? menservants, and your? maidservants, and the Levite who is within your? gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you?.

13 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see.

14 Indeed rather, in the place that YHWH chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.