1"These are the laws and judgments that you shall observe and you shall do in the land that LORD JEHOVAH God of your fathers gives you to inherit, all of the days that you live in the land. 2Destroy all of the regions where the nations served there, that you inherit, and their gods on the high mountains and upon the hills and under every shady tree: 3And you shall pull down their altars and you shall break down their monuments and their carved works you shall burn in fire and their engraved gods you shall break, and you shall destroy their names from that place. 4And you shall not do so to LORD JEHOVAH your God. 5But in the place that LORD JEHOVAH your God had chosen from all your tribes to put his name there, be seeking out the house of his dwelling and going there: 6And bring your burnt peace offerings there and your sacrifices and your tithes and the dedications of your hands and your vows and your offerings and the firstborn of your oxen and of your sheep: 7And eat there before LORD JEHOVAH your God and rejoice in everything to which you reach your hands, you and your wives in your households with which LORD JEHOVAH your God blessed you.

8And you will not do as we do here today, each man according to what is good in his eyes. 9Because you have not yet come to the dwelling place and to the inheritance that LORD JEHOVAH your God gives to you. 10And cross the Jordan and dwell in the land that LORD JEHOVAH your God causes you to inherit and gives rest to you from all of your enemies around you, and you shall settle in confidence; 11And the place that LORD JEHOVAH your God will choose where his name should dwell, bring there everything that I command you, your burnt peace offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and dedications of your hands and every choice thing of your vows that you vowed to LORD JEHOVAH: 12And rejoice before LORD JEHOVAH your God, you and your sons and your daughters and your Servants and your Maids and the Levites who are in your cities, because they have no inheritance or a division with you.

13Beware that you do not offer up your burnt peace offering in every place that you please: 14Except in the place that LORD JEHOVAH will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer up your burnt peace offering and there you shall do everything that I command you.

15Only in every lust of your soul slaughter and eat the flesh as a blessing that LORD JEHOVAH your God gives to you in all your cities; they may eat the defiled and the clean, like a deer and like a stag. 16Only the blood you will not eat, but pour it on the ground like water. 17You will not be authorized in your cities to eat the tithes of your grain, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your oxen, or of your flocks, or all your vows that you will vow, or your offerings, or the dedications of your hands: 18But you shall eat it before LORD JEHOVAH your God in the place that LORD JEHOVAH your God will choose for it, you and your son and your daughter and your Servant and your Maid and the Levite in your town, and you shall rejoice before LORD JEHOVAH your God in everything to which you reach your hand. 19Beware that you will not forsake the Levites all of your days in the land.

20And when LORD JEHOVAH your God will enlarge your border as He said to you, and you will say 'I will eat meat' because your soul lusts to eat meat, in all the lusts of your soul, you shall eat meat. 21And if the place that LORD JEHOVAH your God will choose, that He would put his Name there, is far from you, slay some of your oxen and some of your sheep that LORD JEHOVAH your God has given to you, as He commanded you, and eat in your towns in all the lusts of your soul. 22However, as when a deer and a stag is eaten, so you shall eat it; defiled or clean, you shall eat it together. 23Only be strong that you will not eat blood, because the blood is the life; you shall not eat the life with the flesh. 24You shall not eat it but pour it on the ground like water. 25You shall not eat it, that it may be good for you and for your children after you, when you do what is good before LORD JEHOVAH your God. 26Only take your holy things that you will have and your vows and come to the region that LORD JEHOVAH has chosen: 27And make your burnt peace offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of LORD JEHOVAH your God, and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured on the altar of LORD JEHOVAH your God, and eat the meat.

28Keep and hear all these commandments that I command you today, that it will be good for you and for your children after you to eternity, when you do what is good and what is excellent before LORD JEHOVAH your God.

29And when LORD JEHOVAH your God will destroy the nations to which you go, and he will destroy them from before you and you will possess them and you will dwell in their land; 30Beware that you do not go astray after them, after LORD JEHOVAH destroys them from before you, and do not ask about their gods and say, 'How were the nations serving these their gods, that I may also do like them?' 31But you shall not do so to LORD JEHOVAH your God, because everything that LORD JEHOVAH despises and hates they have done for their gods, also they burned their sons and their daughters in fire for their gods.

32Every word that I command to you, keep it and do; you shall not add upon it and you shall not subtract from it.”