Deuteronomy, Chapter 12, King James Bible

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Deuteronomy, chapter twelve. These are the statutes and judgments which
ye shall observe to do in the land which the
Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it.
All the days that ye live upon the earth, ye
shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which
ye shall possess, serve their gods, upon the high mountains

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and upon the hills, and under every green tree. And
ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and
burn their groves with fire. And ye shall hew down
of the graven images of their gods and destroy the
names of them. Out of that place ye shall not
do so unto the Lord your God, but unto the

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place which the Lord your God shall choose out of
all your tribes to put his name. There, even unto
his habitation, shall ye seek. And thither thou shalt come.
And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices,
and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand and
your vows, and your free will offerings, and the firstlings

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of your herds and of your flocks. And there ye
shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall
rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto ye
and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.
Ye shall not do after all the things that we
do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in
his own eyes. For ye are not as yet come

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to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord
your God giveth you. But when ye go over Jordan
and dwell in the land which the Lord your God
giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest
from all your enemies roundabout, so that ye dwell in safety,
then there shall be a place which the Lord your
God shall choose to cause his name to dwell. There

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Thither shall he bring all that I command you, your
burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave
offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which
ye bow unto the Lord. And ye shall rejoice before
the Lord your God. Ye and your sons and your daughters,
and your men servants, and your maid servants, and the

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levite that is within your gates. Forasmuch as he hath
no part nor inheritance with you, take heed to thyself
that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place
that thou seest, But in the place which the Lord
shall choose in one of thy tribes, There thou shalt
offer thy burnt offerings, And there thou shalt do all

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that I command Thee. Notwithstanding thou mayst kill and eat
flesh in all thy gaits, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after,
according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which
ye hath given thee, the unclean and the clean may
eat thereof as of the roebuck, and as of the heart.
Only ye shall not eat the blood. Ye shall pour

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it upon the earth as water. Thou mayst not eat
within thy gai the tithe of thy corn, or of
thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of
thy herds, or of thy flock, nor any of thy
bows which thou bowest, nor thy free will offerings, or
heave offering of thine hand. But thou must eat them
before the Lord thy God. In the place which the

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Lord thy God shall choose, Thou and thy son, and
thy daughter, and thy manservant and thy maid servant, and
the levite that is within thy gates, and thou shalt
rejoice before the Lord, thy God, in all that thou
puttest thine hands unto take heed to thyself, that thou
forsake not the levite, as long as thou livest upon

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the earth. When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border,
as he hath promised THEE, and thou shalt say, I
will eat flesh, because thy sou longest to eat flesh,
Thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. If
the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to
put his name there be too far from THEE, then

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thou shalt kill thee I heard and of thy flock,
which the Lord hath given THEE, as I have commanded thee.
And thou shalt eat in thy gaits whatsoever thy soul
lusteth after. Even as the roebuck and the heart is eaten,
so thou shalt eat them the unclean and the clean
shall eat of them alike. Only be sure that thou

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eat not the blood. For the blood is the life,
and thou mayst not eat the life. With the flesh,
thou shalt not eat it. Thou shalt pour it upon
the earth as water. Thou shalt not eat it, that
it may go well with THEE and with thy children
after THEE. When thou shalt do that which is right
in the side of the Lord. Only thy holy things,

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which thou hast and thy vows, thou shalt take and
go unto the place which the Lord shall choose, and
thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the
blood upon the altar of the Lord thy God, and
the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon
the altar of the Lord thy God. And thou shalt
eat the flesh, observe, and hear all these words which

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I command THEE, that it may go well with THEE
and with thy children after THEE forever, when thou doest
that which is good and right in the sight of
the Lord thy God. When the Lord thy God shall
cut off the nations from before thee, whether thou goest
to possess them, and thou succeedest them and dreadest in
their land, take heed to thyself that thou be not

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snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from
before THEE, and that thou inquire not after their gods,
saying how did these nations serve their gods even so
will I do. Likewise, thou shalt not do so unto
the Lord thy God. For every abomination to the Lord
of which he hateth have they done unto their gods.

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For even their sons and their daughters, that they have
burnt in the fire, to their gods. What thingsoever I
command you observe to do it, thou shalt not add
thereto nor diminish from it,