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Deuteronomy 12:22-32 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

22. Surely just as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so both the unclean and the clean together may eat it.

23. Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.

24. You shall not eat it, but on the ground you shall pour it out like water.

25. You shall not eat it, so that it will go well for you and your children after you, because then you will be doing what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

26. Only your holy objects that are yours and your votive gifts you must carry and you must bring to the place that Yahweh will choose.

27. And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood on the altar of Yahweh your God, and the blood of your sacrifices you shall pour out on the altar of Yahweh your God, but the meat you may eat.

28. Be careful to obey all these things that I am commanding you, so that it will go well for you and for your children after you forever, because then you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.

29. “When Yahweh your God has cut off the nations whom you are about to go to, to dispossess them before you, and you have dispossessed them, and you live in their land,

30. take care so that you are not ensnared into imitating them after their being destroyed from before you, and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods, and thus I myself want to do also.’

31. You must not do so toward Yahweh your God, because of every detestable thing they have done for their gods Yahweh hates, for even their sons and their daughters they would burn in the fire to their gods.

32. All of the things that I am commanding you, you must diligently observe; you shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it.”

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