1 “These are the statutes and the judgments which you will observe to do in the land which YHWH, God of your fathers, has given to you to possess it, all the days that you will be living on the ground. 2 You will utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the heights, and under every green tree. 3 And you will break down their altars, and shatter their standing pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire, and cut down carved images of their gods, and destroy their name out of that place. 4 You will not do so to your God YHWH. 5 Rather—that you seek after the place which your God YHWH chose out of all your tribes to put His name there, for His Dwelling Place, and you will enter there, 6 and will bring in there your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the raised-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock. 7 And you will eat there before your God YHWH, and rejoice in every putting out of your hand, you and your households, with which your God YHWH has blessed you. 8 You will not do according to all that we are doing here today—each doing anything that is right in his own eyes— 9 for until now you have not come to the rest and to the inheritance which your God YHWH is giving to you. 10 When you have passed over the Jordan, and have stayed in the land which your God YHWH is causing you to inherit, and He has given rest to you from all your surrounding enemies, and you have stayed confidently, 11 then it will be, the place on which your God YHWH fixes to cause His name to stay there, there you will bring in all that which I am commanding you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the raised-offering of your hand, and all the choice of your vows which you vow to YHWH. 12 And you will rejoice before your God YHWH, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your handmaids, and the Levite who are within your gates, for he will have no part and inheritance with you. 13 Take heed to yourself lest you cause your burnt-offerings to ascend in any place which you see. 14 Rather—that in the place which YHWH chose in one of your tribes, there you will cause your burnt-offerings to ascend, and there you will do all that which I am commanding you. 15 Nevertheless, you will slaughter anything of the desire of your soul, and eat its flesh according to the blessing of your God YHWH which He has given to you in all your gates. The unclean and the clean eat it, as if the roe and as if the deer. 16 Only, you will not eat the blood—you will pour it on the earth as water. 17 You will not be able to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, and of your new wine, and your oil, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock, and any of your vows which you vow, and your free-will offerings, and a raised-offering of your hand. 18 But you will eat it before your God YHWH in the place which your God YHWH fixed on, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your handmaid, and the Levite who are within your gates, and you will rejoice before your God YHWH in every putting out of your hand. 19 Take heed to yourself lest you forsake the Levite for all your days on your ground. 20 When your God YHWH enlarges your border, as He had spoken to you, and you say, Let me eat flesh—for your soul desires to eat flesh—you eat flesh of all the desire of your soul. 21 When the place is far from you in which your God YHWH chose to put His name there, then you will sacrifice from your herd and from your flock which YHWH has given to you, as I have commanded you, and will eat within your gates, of all the desire of your soul. 22 Only, as the roe and the deer is eaten, so will you eat it. The unclean and the clean alike eat it. 23 Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you will not eat the life with the flesh. 24 You will not eat it—you will pour it on the earth as water. 25 you will not eat it, in order that it may be well with you and with your sons after you when you do that which is right in the eyes of YHWH. 26 Only, your holy things which you have, and your vows, you take up, and go to the place which YHWH chose, 27 and make your burnt-offerings—the flesh and the blood—on the altar of your God YHWH. And the blood of your sacrifice will be poured out by the altar of your God YHWH, and you will eat the flesh. 28 Observe, and you will obey all these words which I am commanding you, in order that it may be well with you and with your sons after you to a distant age, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of your God YHWH. 29 When your God YHWH cuts off the nations—to where you are going in to possess them—from your presence, and you possess them, and stay in their land— 30 take heed to yourself lest you are ensnared after them, after their being destroyed out of your presence, and lest you inquire about their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, that I also do so? 31 You will not do so to your God YHWH. For every abomination that YHWH has hated they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters with fire for their gods. 32 The whole thing which I am commanding you, you will observe to do it. You will not add to it, nor diminish from it.”