12 DEBARIM - DEUTERONOMY 12

Monuments Of Idolatry To Be Destroyed

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  1     ?  These are the statutes and judgments, which you shall observe to do in the land, which YAHWEH the Sovereign Ruler of your fathers gives you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth.

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  2    You shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

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  3    And you shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

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  4    You shall not do so unto YAHWEH your ABBA.

The Place Of YAHWEH'S Service To Be Kept

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  5     ?  But unto the place which YAHWEH your ABBA shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall you seek, and thither you shall come:

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  6    And thither you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:

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  7    And there you shall eat before YAHWEH your ABBA, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand unto, you and your households, wherein YAHWEH your ABBA has blessed you.

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

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  9    For you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which YAHWEH your ABBA gives you.

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  10    But when you go over Yardan, and dwell in the land which YAHWEH your ABBA gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety;

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  11    Then there shall be a place which YAHWEH your ABBA shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall you bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow unto YAHWEH:

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  12    And you shall rejoice before YAHWEH your ABBA, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he has no part nor inheritance with you.

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  13    Take heed to yourself that you offer not your burnt offerings in every place that you see:

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  14    But in the place which YAHWEH shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

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  15    Notwithstanding you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatsoever your soul lusts after, according to the blessing of YAHWEH your ABBA which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

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

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  17    You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your corn, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herds or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, or heave offering of your hand:

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  18    But you must eat them before YAHWEH your ABBA in the place which YAHWEH your ABBA shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before YAHWEH your ABBA in all that you put your hands unto.

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  19    Take heed to yourself that you forsake not the Levite as long as you live upon the earth.

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  20    When YAHWEH your ABBA shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatsoever your soul lusts after.

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  21    If the place which YAHWEH your ABBA has chosen to put his name there be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which YAHWEH has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatsoever your soul lusts after.

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  22    Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so you shall eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

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  23    Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.

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  24    You shall not eat it; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.

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

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  26    Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go unto the place which YAHWEH shall choose:

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  27    And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of YAHWEH your ABBA: and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of YAHWEH your ABBA, and you shall eat the flesh.

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  28    Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the sight of YAHWEH your ABBA.

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  29    When YAHWEH your ABBA shall cut off the nations from before you, whither you go to possess them, and you succeed them, and dwell in their land;

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  30    Take heed to yourself that you be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before you; and that you shall not enquire or seek after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

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  31    You shall not do so unto YAHWEH your ABBA: for every abomination to YAHWEH, which he hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

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  32    What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.