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These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORDGod of thy fathersgiveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
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Ye shall utterlydestroy all the places, wherein the nationswhich ye shall possessserved their gods, upon the highmountains, and upon the hills, and under every greentree:
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And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
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But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
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And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
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And there ye shall eatbefore the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
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But when ye go overJordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
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Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choicevows which ye vow unto the LORD:
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And ye shall rejoicebefore the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates;forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.
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But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
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Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eatflesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
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Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
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But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoicebefore the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
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When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eatflesh, because thy soullongeth to eatflesh; thou mayest eatflesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
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If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
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Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
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Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy childrenafter thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
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And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
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Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy childrenafter thee forever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
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When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
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Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods,saying, How did these nationsserve their gods? even so will I dolikewise.
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Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.