17. You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
18. but you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you put your hand to.
19. Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
20. When the Lord your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.
21. If the place which the Lord your God shall choose, 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 may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
22. Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
23. Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.
24. You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like 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 Lord’s eyes.
26. Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which the Lord shall choose.
27. You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the Lord your God’s altar; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the Lord your God’s altar; and you shall eat the meat.
28. Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the Lord your God’s eyes.
29. When the Lord your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;
30. be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not enquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
31. You shall not do so to the Lord your God; for every abomination to the Lord, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
32. Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.