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Deuteronomy 12:23-29 English Standard Version (ESV)

23. Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

24. You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

25. You shall not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

26. But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place that the Lord will choose,

27. and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, but the flesh you may eat.

28. Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

29. “When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,

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