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.
28. Obey faithfully everything that I have commanded you, and all will go well for you and your descendants for ever, because you will be doing what is right and what pleases the Lord your God.
29. “The Lord your God will destroy the nations as you invade their land, and you will occupy it and settle there.
30. After the Lord destroys those nations, make sure that you don't follow their religious practices, because that would be fatal. Don't try to find out how they worship their gods, so that you can worship in the same way.
31. Do not worship the Lord your God in the way they worship their gods, for in the worship of their gods they do all the disgusting things that the Lord hates. They even sacrifice their children in the fires on their altars.
32. “Do everything that I have commanded you; do not add anything to it or take anything from it.