12. Be joyful there in his presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites who live in your towns; remember that the Levites will have no land of their own.
13. You are not to offer your sacrifices wherever you choose;
14. you must offer them only in the one place that the Lord will choose in the territory of one of your tribes. Only there are you to offer your sacrifices that are to be burnt and do all the other things that I have commanded you.
15. “But you are free to kill and eat your animals wherever you live. You may eat as many as the Lord gives you. All of you, whether ritually clean or unclean, may eat them, just as you would eat the meat of deer or antelope.
16. But you must not use their blood as food; you must pour it out on the ground like water.
17. Nothing that you offer to the Lord is to be eaten in the places where you live: neither the tithes of your corn, your wine, or your olive oil, nor the firstborn of your cattle and sheep, the gifts that you promise to the Lord, your freewill offerings, or any other offerings.
18. You and your children, together with your servants and the Levites who live in your towns, are to eat these offerings only in the presence of the Lord your God, in the one place of worship chosen by the Lord your God. And you are to be happy there over everything that you have done.
19. Be sure, also, not to neglect the Levites, as long as you live in your land.
20. “When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised, you may eat meat whenever you wish.
21. If the one place of worship is too far away, then, whenever you wish, you may kill any of the cattle or sheep that the Lord has given you, and you may eat the meat at home, as I have told you.
22. Anyone, ritually clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as he would eat the meat of deer or antelope.
23. Only do not eat meat with blood still in it, for the life is in the blood, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
24. Do not use the blood for food; instead pour it out on the ground like water.
25. If you obey this command, the Lord will be pleased, and all will go well for you and your descendants.
26. Take to the one place of worship your offerings and the gifts that you have promised the Lord.
27. Offer there the sacrifices which are to be completely burnt on the Lord's altar. Also offer those sacrifices in which you eat the meat and pour the blood out on the altar.