12. You will rejoice before the Lord your God, you, your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.
13. Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see.
14. Rather, in the place which the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, there you must offer your burnt offerings, and there you must do all that I command you.
15. Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and of the deer,
16. only you must not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the ground like water.
17. You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, your wine, your oil, the firstborn of your herds or of your flock, any of your vows which you vow, your freewill offerings, or the offering of your hand.
18. Rather you must eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose—you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite that is within your gates—and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake to do.
19. Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on the earth.
20. When the Lord your God shall enlarge your border as He has promised you, and you say, “I will eat meat,” because you desire to eat meat, then you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.
21. If the place which the Lord your God has chosen to put His name 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 must eat in your gates whatever your heart desires.
22. Even as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you shall eat them. The unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
23. Only be sure that you do not eat the blood. For the blood is the life, and you may not eat the life with the meat.
24. You must not eat it. You must pour it on the ground like water.
25. You must not eat it, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.