12Deuteronomy 12

CHAP. XII. / 1 Monuments of Idolatrie are to be destroyed. 5 The place of Gods seruice is to be kept. 15.23 Blood is forbidden. 17. 20. 26 Holy things must bee eaten in the Holy place. 19 The Leuite i

1These are the Statutes, and Iudgements, which ye shal obserue to do, in the land which the Lord God of thy fathers giueth thee to possesse it, all the dayes that yee liue vpon the earth.Select Deuteronomy 12:1

2Yee shall vtterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which yee shall possesse, serued their gods, vpon the high mountaines, and vpon the hils, and vnder euery greene tree.Select Deuteronomy 12:2

3And you shall ouerthrow their altars, and breake their pillars, and burne their groues with fire, and you shall hew downe the grauen images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.Select Deuteronomy 12:3

4Yee shall not doe so vnto the Lord your God.Select Deuteronomy 12:4

5But vnto the place which the Lord your God shall chuse out of all your tribes, to put his name there, euen vnto his habitation shall yee seeke, and thither thou shalt come:Select Deuteronomy 12:5

6And thither yee shall bring your burnt offrings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heaue offrings of your hand, and your vowes, and your free wil offerings, and the firstlings of your heards, and of your flocks.Select Deuteronomy 12:6

7And there ye shall eate before the Lord your God, and yee shall reioyce in all that you put your hand vnto, ye and your housholds, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.Select Deuteronomy 12:7

8Ye shall not do after all the things that we doe here this day, euery man whatsoeuer is right in his owne eyes.Select Deuteronomy 12:8

9For yee are not as yet come to the rest, and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giueth you.Select Deuteronomy 12:9

10But when yee goe ouer Iordan, and dwel in the land which the Lord your God giueth you to inherite, and when he giueth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety:Select Deuteronomy 12:10

11Then 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 heaue offring of your hand, & all your choice vowes, which ye vow vnto the Lord.Select Deuteronomy 12:11

12And yee shall reioyce before the Lord your God, ye and your sonnes and your daughters, and your men seruants, and your maid seruants, and the Leuite that is within your gates, forasmuch as hee hath no part nor inheritance with you.Select Deuteronomy 12:12

13Take heed to thy selfe, that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in euery place that thou seest:Select Deuteronomy 12:13

14But in the place which the Lord shal choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.Select Deuteronomy 12:14

15Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eate flesh in all thy gates, whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath giuen thee: the vncleane and the cleane may eate thereof, as of the Roe bucke, and as of the Hart.Select Deuteronomy 12:15

16Onely ye shall not eat the blood: yee shall powre it vpon the earth as water.Select Deuteronomy 12:16

17Thou mayest not eate within thy gates the tithe of thy corne, or of thy wine, or of thy oyle, or the firstlings of thy heards, or of thy flocke, nor any of thy vowes which thou vowest, nor thy free will offerings, or heaue offering of thine hand:Select Deuteronomy 12:17

18But thou must eate them before the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy man seruant, and thy maid seruant, and the Leuite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt reioyce before the Lord thy God, in all that thou puttest thine hands vnto.Select Deuteronomy 12:18

19Take heed to thy selfe, that thou forsake not the Leuite, as long as thou liuest vpon the earth.Select Deuteronomy 12:19

20When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as hee hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eate flesh (because thy soule longeth to eat flesh) thou mayest eat flesh whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth after.Select Deuteronomy 12:20

21If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his Name there, be too farre from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flocke, which the Lord hath giuen thee, as I haue commaunded thee, and thou shalt eate in thy gates, whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth after.Select Deuteronomy 12:21

22Euen as the Roe bucke and the Hart is eaten, so thou shalt eate them: the vncleane and the cleane shall eate of them alike.Select Deuteronomy 12:22

23Onely be sure that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eate the life with the flesh.Select Deuteronomy 12:23

24Thou shalt not eate it; thou shalt powre it vpon the earth as water.Select Deuteronomy 12:24

25Thou shalt not eate it, that it may goe well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt doe that which is right in the sight of the Lord.Select Deuteronomy 12:25

26Onely thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vowes, thou shalt take, and goe vnto the place which the Lord shall chuse.Select Deuteronomy 12:26

27And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, vpon the altar of the Lord thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be powred out vpon the altar of the Lord thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.Select Deuteronomy 12:27

28Obserue & heare all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for euer, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.Select Deuteronomy 12:28

29When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possesse them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land:Select Deuteronomy 12:29

30Take heede to thy selfe 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 nations serue their gods? euen so will I doe likewise.Select Deuteronomy 12:30

31Thou shalt not doe so vnto the Lord thy God: for euery abomination to the Lord which hee hateth, haue they done vnto their gods: for euen their sonnes and their daughters they haue burnt in the fire to their gods.Select Deuteronomy 12:31

32What thing soeuer I command you, obserue to doe it: thou shalt not adde thereto, nor diminish from it.Select Deuteronomy 12:32