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.

You must obliterate all the places where the nations worshipped, whom you are inheriting, their gods [idols], on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every evergreen 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 [idols] are you to cut down; and you are to obliterate their name from that place.

Do not act this way to [before] Adonoy, your God.

Rather at the place that Adonoy, your God, chooses from all your tribes to set His Presence [have His Shechinah dwell] there, [at the abode of His Shechinah] will you seek His Presence and come there.

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

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

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

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

Let it be that the place where Adonoy, your God, chooses to place His Presence [Shechinah] 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 [before] Adonoy.

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.

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

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.

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 [meat of the] deer and the gazelle.

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

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**].

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.

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

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 place is distant from you that Adonoy, your God, chooses to set His Presence [Shechinah] 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.

Only, as the [meat of the] dear and the gazelle may be eaten, so may you eat it; the ritually unclean and the clean together may eat it.

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

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

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

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

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 [sacred]-offerings will be poured on the altar of Adonoy, your God, then you will eat the meat.

Preserve and heed [obey] 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 [correct and proper before] in the eyes of Adonoy, your God.

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;

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 [idols], saying, ‘‘How did these nations worship their gods, let me do so, too.’’

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