⁴You shall not worship Yahweh your God like this. ⁵But only^d to the place that Yahweh your God will choose from all of your tribes to place his name there as his dwelling shall you seek, and there you shall go. ⁶And you shall bring there your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and your donations^e and your votive gifts and your freewill offerings and the firstling of your herd and your flock. ⁷And you shall eat there before^f Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all your endeavors,^g you and your family in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

⁸“You must not do just as we are doing here today,^h each according to all that is right in his eyes.ⁱ ⁹For you have not come up to now to the resting place and to the inheritance that Yahweh your God is giving to you. ¹⁰But you will cross the Jordan, and you will settle in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give rest to you from all your enemies from all around, and you will live securely, ¹¹and then^j at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, to let his name dwell there, there you shall bring all the things I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and your donations,^k and all of the choice things, your votive gifts that you vow to Yahweh. ¹²And you shall rejoice before^l Yahweh your God, you and your sons and your daughters and your slaves and your slave women and the Levite who is in your towns,^m because there is not for him a plot of ground and an inheritance with you.

¹³“Take care for yourself so that you do not offer your burnt offerings at just any place that you happen to see, ¹⁴but onlyⁿ at the place that Yahweh will choose among one of your tribes; there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all the things that I am commanding you.

¹⁵“But whenever you desire^o you may slaughter, and you may eat meat according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you in all of your towns;^p the unclean and the clean may eat it just as they would the gazelle and as the deer. ¹⁶Only the blood you must not eat, but on the ground you must pour it like water. ¹⁷You are not allowed to eat in your towns^q the tithe of your grain and your wine and your olive oil and the firstborn of your herd and your flock and all of your votive gifts that you vowed and your freewill offering and your donations.^r ¹⁸But only before^s Yahweh your God you shall eat it, at the place that Yahweh your God will choose,^t you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite who is in your towns,^u and you must rejoice before^v your God in all your undertakings.^w ¹⁹Take care^x so that you do not neglect the Levite all of your days on your land.

²⁰“When Yahweh your God enlarges your territory just as he has promised^y to you, and you say ‘I want to eat some meat,’ because you want it,^z whenever you desire^a you may eat meat. ²¹If the place that^b Yahweh your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, and you slaughter any of your herd and any of your flock that Yahweh has given to you just as I have commanded you, then you may eat whenever you desire in your towns.^c ²²Surely just as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so both the unclean and the clean together may eat it. ²³Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat. ²⁴You shall not eat it, but on the ground you shall pour it out like water. ²⁵You shall not eat it, so that it will go well^d for you and your children after you, because then you will be doing what is^e right in the eyes of Yahweh. ²⁶Only your holy objects that are yours^f and your votive gifts you must carry and you must bring to the place that Yahweh will choose. ²⁷And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood on the altar of Yahweh your God, and the blood of your sacrifices you shall pour out on the altar of Yahweh your God, but the meat you may eat. ²⁸Be careful to obey^g all these things that I am commanding you, so that it will go well^h for you and for your children after you forever,ⁱ because then you will be doing what is^j good and right^k in the eyes of Yahweh your God.

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Footnotes

dLiterally “But if”
eLiterally “the contributions of your hand”
fLiterally “before the faces of”
gLiterally “in all of the sending of your hand”
hLiterally “the day”
iLiterally “each man all of the right in his eyes”
jLiterally “and it will happen”
kLiterally “the contribution of your hand”
lLiterally “the face of”
mLiterally “gates”
nLiterally “but only if”
oLiterally “in all the wanting of your soul/inner self”
pLiterally “gates”
qLiterally “gates”
rLiterally “the contribution of your hand”
sLiterally “before the face of”
tHebrew “choose it”
uLiterally “gate”
vLiterally “before the face of”
wLiterally “in all of the sending of your hand”
xLiterally “Watch for yourself”
yLiterally “spoken”
zLiterally “because your soul/inner self desires it”
aLiterally “at/in all the wanting of your soul/inner self”
bOr “where”
cLiterally “gates”
dLiterally “it/he is good”
eHebrew “the”
fLiterally “that are for you”
gLiterally “Watch carefully and listen”
hLiterally “he/it is good”
iLiterally “until ever”
jHebrew “the”
kHebrew “the right”