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Deuteronomy 12:13-17 New English Translation (NET)

13. Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,

14. for you may do so only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas – there you may do everything I am commanding you.

15. On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

16. However, you must not eat blood – pour it out on the ground like water.

17. You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.

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