16. Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.
17. You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herds or of your flock, nor any of your offerings which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, or heave offering of your hand:
18. But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hands unto.
19. Take heed to yourself that you forsake not the Levite as long as you live upon the earth.
20. When the LORD your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatsoever your soul desires.
21. If the place which the LORD your God has chosen to put his name there is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatsoever your soul desires.
22. Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so you shall eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
23. Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.
24. You shall not eat it; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.
25. You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
26. Only your holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose.