«These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.

You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.

You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things.

«But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go.

There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

«You shall not at all do as we are doing here today--every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes--

for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.

But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety,

then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD.

And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

but in the place which the LORD chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

«However, you may slaughter 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 the deer alike.

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, of your freewill offerings, or of the heave offering of your hand.

But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God chooses, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all to which you put your hands.

Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

«When the LORD your God enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, «Let me eat meat,́ because you long to eat meat, you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.

If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock which the LORD has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your gates as much as your heart desires.

Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them.

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat.

You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

Only the holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.

And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the meat.

Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

«When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land,

take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, «How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.́

You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

«Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.

«You are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.

For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

«You shall not eat any detestable thing.

These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, and that chews the cud, among the animals.

Nevertheless, of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat, such as these: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; they are unclean for you.

Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud; you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.

«These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales.

And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

«All clean birds you may eat.

But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds;

every raven after its kind;

the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds;

the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl,

the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl,

the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.

«Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

«You may eat all clean birds.

«You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. «You shall not boil a young goat in its motheŕs milk.

«You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year.

And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the LORD your God has blessed you,

then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

«At the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates.

And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

«Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place where the LORD chooses to put His name.

You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until morning.

«You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you;

but at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.

And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work on it.

«You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.

Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the LORD your God blesses you.

You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.

And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

«You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.

Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.

«Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.

«You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

«You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the LORD your God.

You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

«And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,

that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.

And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, «I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.́

«Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God: «My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

But the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us.

Then we cried out to the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression.

So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders.

He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, «a land flowing with milk and honey»;

and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O LORD, have given me.́ «Then you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.

So you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you.

«When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year--the year of tithing--and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled,

then you shall say before the LORD your God: «I have removed the holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.

I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed any of it for an unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me.

Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, «a land flowing with milk and honey.»́

«This day the LORD your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.

Today you have proclaimed the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice.

Also today the LORD has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments,

and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, just as He has spoken.»