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but only in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes: there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do everything that I command you.

"Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

"But you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all your undertakings.

"Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

"You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

"You shall not eat it, so that it may go well for you and your sons after you, since you will be doing what is right in the sight of the LORD.

"Only your holy things which you may have and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.

"And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.

"You shall not behave this way toward the LORD your God, because every abominable act which the LORD hates, they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire for their gods.

"Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take anything away from it.

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

"You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.

"But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken falsely against the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to drive you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall eliminate the evil from among you.

you shall not consent to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him.

"Instead, you shall most certainly kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.

"So you shall stone him to death, because he has attempted to drive you away from the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

then you shall investigate, search out, and inquire thoroughly. And if it is true and the matter is certain that this abomination has been committed among you,

you shall most certainly strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword. Utterly destroy it and all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.

"Then you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its public square, and burn the city and all its plunder with fire as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God; and it shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.

"You are sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave a bald spot above your forehead for the dead.