1. “These are the statutes and ordinances that you are to make sure to do in the land that Adonai, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess—all the days that you live on the earth.
2. You must utterly destroy all the places where the nations that you will dispossess served their gods—on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
3. You are to tear down their altars, smash their pillars, burn their Asherah poles in the fire and cut down the carved images of their gods, and you are to obliterate their name from that place.
4. “You are not to act like this toward Adonai your God.
5. Rather you are to seek only the place Adonai your God chooses from all your tribes to put His Name to dwell—there you will come.
6. There you are to bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes, the offering of your hand, your vow and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.
7. There you and your households will eat before Adonai your God and rejoice in every undertaking of your hand, as Adonai your God has blessed you.