These are the statutes and the laws that you will guard to fulfill in the land that Adonoy, God of your forefathers, has given to inherit, all the years that you are alive on the land.

These are the statutes and judgments, which you shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers gives thee to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth.

These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall observe to do in the land which the L-rd, the G-d of your fathers, gave to you to inherit, all the days that you live upon the earth.

You must obliterate all the places where the nations worshipped, whom you are inheriting, their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every evergreen tree.

You shall utterly destroy all the places, in which the nations whom you are to dispossess, served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every leafy tree:

Destroy shall you destroy [(whence it is derived that in destroying idolatry one must uproot it entirely)], from all of the places where the nations which you are inheriting worshipped, their gods [which are] on the high mountains and on the hills and under every leafy tree.

You are to break apart their altars, and you are to smash their pillars, and their asherahs are you to burn in fire, and the statues of their gods are you to cut down; and you are to obliterate their name from that place.

and you shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their asherim with fire; and you shall hew down the carvings of their gods, and destroy the name of them out of that place.

And you shall raze their altars [of many stones] and you shall break their monuments [of one stone], and their asheiroth [trees that they worship] shall you burn in fire, and the graven images of their gods shall you cut down, and you shall cause their name to go lost from that place [by giving it a new, demeaning name].

Do not act this way to Adonoy, your God.

This you shall not do to the Lord your God.

You shall not do thus [to offer sacrifices in all places] to the L-rd your G-d.

Rather at the place that Adonoy, your God, chooses from all your tribes to set His Presence there, will you seek His Presence and come there.

But to the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, there shall you seek him, at his dwelling, and there shalt thou come:

But to the place that the L-rd your G-d will choose from all your tribes to place His name there; His dwelling [the sanctuary of Shiloh] shall you inquire after, and you shall come there.

You are to bring there your burnt-offerings and your sacred-offerings, and your tithes and the elevation of your hands, and your pledges, and your donations, and the firstborn of your cattle and your flocks.

and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and your flocks:

And you shall bring there your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices [obligatory peace-offerings] and your tithes [the beast-tithe and ma'aser sheni], and the offering of your hands [first-fruits], and your vows and your gifts, and the firstborn of your herds and your flocks [to give them to the Cohein to be sacrificed there].

You are to eat there before Adonoy, your God, and you will be happy with the sum of your handiwork, you and your households, as Adonoy, your God, has blessed you.

and there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all that to which you put your hand, you and your households, wherein the Lord thy God has blessed thee.

And you shall eat there before the L-rd your G-d, and you shall rejoice in all to which you put your hand; you and your households. [Bring offerings in accordance with the blessing] wherewith the L-rd your G-d has blessed you.

You may not do everything we do here today, each what is upright in his eyes.

You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes.

[(11:31): "When you cross the Jordan, etc." and you are permitted to sacrifice on bamoth (temporary altars) all the fourteen years of conquest and apportionment of the land], you shall not do [i.e., you shall not sacrifice upon the bamoth] according to all that we do here today [in the tabernacle (mishkan) that is with you and which is anointed and fit for sin-offerings, guilt-offerings, and vow and gift-offerings, but] a man [may offer on the bamoth, only] all that is fitting in his eyes [i.e., vow and gift-offerings].

For you will not have come as yet to the peace and to the territory that Adonoy, your God, is giving you.

For you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God gives you.

For you will not yet have come [all those fourteen years] to the rest [Shiloh] and to the inheritance [Jerusalem] that the L-rd your G-d gives you.

When you cross the Yardein and settle in the land that Adonoy, your God, is apportioning to you, and He has granted you peace from all your enemies around, and you will live secure.

But when you traverse the Yarden, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety;

And you will cross the Jordan, and you will dwell in the land that the L-rd your G-d causes you to inherit. [After you apportion it and each one knows his portion and (that of) his tribe], and He gives you rest from all of your foes roundabout [which He left there to test you], and you dwell secure [(This did not transpire until the days of David)] —

Let it be that the place where Adonoy, your God, chooses to place His Presence therein—it is there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt-offerings and your sacred-offerings, your tithes and your hand-offerings, and your choice promissory offerings that you pledge to Adonoy.

then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; there shall you bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the Lord:

[Only then] the place the L-rd your G-d shall choose to repose His name therein — [(build the Temple in Jerusalem. All of this occurred as stated (see II Samuel 7:1-1)] — there [in Jerusalem (After the destruction of Shiloh, bamoth were permitted at intervals until they came to Jerusalem)] shall you bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering of your hands, and all your choice vows [(One should bring only of the choicest)] that you vow to the L-rd.

You are to rejoice in the presence of Adonoy, your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male slaves and your female slaves, and the Levite who is in your cities, for he has no portion or territory with you.

and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite who is within your gates; for he has no part or inheritance with you.

And you shall rejoice before the L-rd your G-d: you, your sons, your daughters, your men-servants, your maid-servants, and the Levite in your gates; for he has no portion or inheritance with you.

Take heed, lest you offer up your burnt-offerings anywhere you envision as proper.

Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

Take heed unto yourselves [A negative commandment is superadded to the positive (11)] lest you offer up your burnt-offerings in every place that you see [fit (but you may do so at the behest of a prophet, viz. Eliyahu on Mount Carmel)].

Solely in the place that Adonoy chooses within one of your tribes, there are you to offer up your burnt-offerings, and there are you to do everything that I am commanding you.

but only 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 that I command thee.

But only in the place that the L-rd shall choose, in (the portion of) one of your tribes [Benjamin] — there shall you offer up your burnt-offerings, and there shall you do all that I command you.

Except with the fullness of your appetite you may slaughter and eat meat in accord with the blessing of Adonoy, your God, that He has given you in all your cities; the ritually unclean and the clean will eat it like the deer and the gazelle.

Nonetheless, thou mayst slaughter animals and eat their flesh to thy heart’s desire, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he has bestowed on thee, throughout all thy gates, the unclean and the clean may eat of it as they do of the gazelle and the deer.

Only [(This excludes from redemption consecrated animals with passing blemishes)], with all the desire of your soul may you slaughter [after redemption, consecrated animals which have sustained a (permanent) blemish], and you may eat [in any place] flesh, [(but you may not use their fleece and their milk)], according to the blessing of the L-rd your G-d that He has given you in all of your gates. The unclean one and the clean one may eat of it [from the same plate (even though it was once consecrated)], as the deer and as the hart [from which a sacrifice is never brought; and, like them, too, in that they are exempt from the priestly gift (shoulder, cheeks, and maw)].

However, you may not eat the blood; on the earth are you to spill it like water.

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

Only the blood shall you not eat, [even though it is not to be sprinkled on the altar]; on the earth shall you spill it as water [It does not require covering].

You are not permitted to eat in your cities the tithe of your grain and your wine and your olive oil, and the first-born of your cattle and your flocks, and all your pledges that you pledge, and your donations and the terumah-separation of your hand-offerings.

Thou mayst not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, or any of thy vows which thou vowest, or thy freewill offerings, or offering of thy hand:

You shall not be able to eat in your gates [A negative commandment is superadded to the positive (11)] the tithe of your corn and your wine and your oil and the first-born of your herd or your flocks [(this, being an exhortation to the Cohanim)], and all your vows which you vow, and your gifts, and the offering of your hands [bikkurim].

Rather, before Adonoy, your God, are you to eat it, in the place that Adonoy, your God, chooses—you and your son and your daughter, and your male slave and your female slave, and the Levite in your cities; and you will be happy in the presence of Adonoy, your God, with the sum of your handiwork.

but thou must eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite who is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that to which thou puttest thy hand.

But only before the L-rd your G-d [within the wall] shall you eat it, in the place that the L-rd your G-d chooses — you, your son, your daughter, your man-servant, your maid-servant, and the Levite who is in your gates [(If you cannot give him of his portion, the first tithe, give him second tithe; if you have no second tithe, invite him to partake with you of your peace-offerings)], and you shall rejoice before the L-rd your G-d in all to which you put your hand.

Watch yourself, lest you forsake the Levite, all your years on your land.

Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

Take heed unto yourself lest you forsake the Levite all of your days upon your land [(But in the exile, you are not exhorted more towards him than towards any of the poor of Israel.)]

When Adonoy, your God, expands your border as He promised you, and you say, ‘‘I would like to eat meat’’ because you have an appetite to eat meat; to the full extent of your appetite eat meat.

When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he has promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat meat, because thou longest to eat meat; thou mayst eat meat, to thy heart’s desire.

When the L-rd your G-d broadens your boundary as He spoke to you, and you say I shall eat flesh, for your soul shall desire to eat flesh [(The Torah hereby teaches proper conduct, that one should desire to eat flesh only out of "expansiveness" and wealth)], then with all the desire of your soul shall you eat flesh [(But in the desert, mundane (non-consecrated) flesh (chullin) was not permitted to them until the animal was consecrated and sacrificed as peace-offerings)].

When the place is distant from you that Adonoy, your God, chooses to set His Presence there, you may slaughter some of your cattle or your flocks that Adonoy gave you, as I have commanded you; and you will eat in your cities with all your appetite.

If the place which the Lord thy God has chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the Lord has given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates to thy heart’s desire.

If the place be distant from you in which the L-rd your G-d shall choose to place His name, [and you will not be able to come and bring peace-offerings every day, as you can now that the mishkan travels with you], then you shall slaughter of your herd and of your flock that the L-rd has given you, as He commanded you [(whence it is seen that there is a command as to the proper procedure for slaughtering, these being the laws of shechitah as stated to Moses on Sinai)], and you shall eat in your gates with all the desire of your soul.

Only, as the deer and the gazelle may be eaten, so may you eat it; the ritually unclean and the clean together may eat it

Even as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

Only [(This excludes permission to eat fats of a beast of chullin, though it is permitted to eat those of an animal, viz., deer and hart.)] as the deer and hart are eaten [i.e., even in a state of uncleanliness], so shall you eat it; the unclean one and the clean one together may eat it.

Only, exercise strength in not eating the blood, for the blood is the life; and do not eat the spirit with the meat.

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayst not eat the life with the meat.

Only strengthen yourself not to eat the blood [(whence it is seen that they were drawn to the eating of blood)]. For the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh [(an exhortation against (eating) ever min hechai (a limb torn from a living animal)].

Do not eat it; onto the earth are you to spill it like water.

Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth like water.

You shall not eat it [an exhortation against (eating) dam hatamtzith (the residue of the blood flow)]; on the earth shall you spill it as water.

Do not eat it, so that you may enjoy beneficience, and your children after you, when you do the upright in Adonoy’s eyes.

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 sight of the Lord.

You shall not eat it [an exhortation against (eating) the blood of the organs], so that it be good for you and your children after you for doing what is just in the eyes of the L-rd.

However, your sacred offerings that you will have, and your pledges, you are to bring when you come to the place that Adonoy chooses.

Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take and go to the place which the Lord shall choose:

Only your consecrated things which shall be to you, and your vows, shall you bear and you shall come to the place that the L-rd shall choose. [i.e., Though you are permitted to slaughter chullin, I did not permit you to slaughter consecrated animals and to eat them in your gates without offering them up; but bring them to the Temple.]

You are to execute your burnt-offerings—the meat and the blood—on the altar of Adonoy, your God; and the blood of your peace -offerings will be poured on the altar of Adonoy, your God, then you will eat the meat.

and thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the meat 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 meat.

And you shall offer your burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the L-rd your G-d [i.e., If they are burnt-offerings, place the flesh and the blood on the altar], and [if they are peace-offerings] the blood of your sacrifices shall be spilled on the altar of the L-rd your G-d [first], and [then] the flesh shall you eat.

Preserve and heed all these words that I am commanding you, in order that you have it good and your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and that which is upright in the eyes of Adonoy, your God.

Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.

Keep [mishnah (i.e., learning) within you] so that you will heed all of these things that I command you, [i.e., so that a "light" mitzvah be as beloved by you as a "weighty" one], so that it be good for you and for your children after you forever for doing what is good [in the eyes of Heaven] and just [in the eyes of man] in the eyes of the L-rd your G-d.

When Adonoy, your God, will have eliminated the nations whom you are coming there to inherit, from before you; and you inherit them and dwell in their land;

When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to dispossess them, and thou dost succeed them and dost dwell in their land;

When the L-rd your G-d will cut off the nations whither you come to inherit them, from before you, and you inherit them and dwell in their land,

Look out for yourself, lest you are torn apart along with them, after they have been annihilated before you, and lest you inquire about their gods, saying, ‘‘How did these nations worship their gods, let me do so, too.’’

take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared into following them, after they are 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.

Take heed unto yourselves lest you are drawn in after them after [i.e., in spite of having witnessed] their destruction before you [for their perverse deeds], and lest you inquire after their gods, saying: How did these nations serve their gods that I may do the same? [(We are hereby apprised that if the service of a particular god is not a conventional one, the one who serves him thus is nonetheless liable.)]

Do not do so to Adonoy, your God, because whatever is abominated by God, what He hates, they have done for their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in fire to their gods.

Thou shalt not do so to the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

You shall not do thus to the L-rd your G-d. For every abomination of the L-rd, which He hates, did they do unto their gods. For even [(including their fathers and mothers)] their sons and their daughters did they burn in fire to their gods.