2. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, upon which the Gentiles, of whom ye shall inherit, served their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree;
3. and ye shall overthrow their altars and break their images and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the statues of their gods and destroy the names of them out of that place.
4. Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God.
5. But ye shall seek the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there for his habitation, and thou shalt go there.
6. And there ye 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 firstborn of your cows and of your sheep;
7. and there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye and your households shall rejoice in every work of your hands in which the Lord thy God has blessed thee.
8. Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, each man doing what seems right in his own eyes,
9. For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God gives you.
10. But when ye pass the Jordan 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 ye dwell in safety,
11. then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; there shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offerings of your hand and all your choice of vows which ye vow unto the Lord;
12. and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye and your sons and your daughters and your menslaves and your maidslaves and the Levite that is within your gates because he has no part nor inheritance with you.
13. Keep thyself that thou not offer thy burnt offerings in any place that thou seest
14. 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 that I command thee.
15. Notwithstanding, thou may kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, according to the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he has given thee; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck and as of the hart.
16. Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.