Deuteronomy 12:1-7 ▼

1 |These are the statutes and ordinances that you must carefully observe in the land that the LORD God of your ancestors has given you to possess every day that you live on the earth.

2 Be sure you destroy there all the places where the nations that you're going to dispossess serve their gods—upon the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.

3 Tear down their altars, cut down their sacred poles, and burn them. Cut down the carved images of their gods to erase their memory from that place.|

4 |You must not act like this with respect to the LORD your God.

5 Instead, you must seek to enter only the place that the LORD your God will choose among your tribes. There he will establish his name and live.

6 Bring your burnt offerings there, along with your sacrifices, your tithes, your hand-carried gifts, your offerings in fulfillment of promises, your freely given offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

7 Then you and your household will eat in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with all the works of your hand with which he blessed you.