DEḆARIM / Deuteronomy 12 - I Read My Scriptures! ❤️ 📖

DEḆARIM 12 (Deuteronomy 12)

1 “These are the Laws and Right-Rulings which you guard to do in the land which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Elohim of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the land.

2 “Completely destroy all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing served their mighty ones, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

3 “And you shall break down their altars, and destroy their pillars, and burn their Ashĕrim with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their mighty ones and shall destroy their name out of that place.

4 “Do not do so to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim,

5 but seek the place which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His Name there, for His Dwelling Place, and there you shall enter.

6 “And there you shall take your burnt offerings, and your offerings, and your tithes, and the contributions of your hand, and your vowed offerings, and your voluntary offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock.

7 “And there you shall eat before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim, and shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim has baraḵ you.

8 “Do not do all that we do here today – each one whatever is right in his own eyes.

9 “Because you have not yet entered the rest and the inheritance which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim is giving you.

10 “But you shall pass over the Yardĕn, and shall dwell in the land which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim is giving you to inherit, and He shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and you shall dwell in safety.

11 “And it shall be, that unto the place which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell there, there you are to bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your offerings, and your tithes, and the contributions of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.

12 “And you shall rejoice before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim, you and your sons and your daughters, and your male servants and your female servants, and the Lĕwite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

13 “Guard yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see,

14 except in the place which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 chooses, in one of your tribes, there you are to offer your burnt offerings, and there you are to do all that I command you.

15 “Only, whatever your being desires you shall slaughter and eat, according to the beraḵah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim which He has given you, within all your gates. The unclean and the clean do eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike.

16 “Only, the blood you do not eat, pour it on the earth like water.

17 “You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or of the firstlings of your herd or your flock, or of any of your offerings which you vow, or of your voluntary offerings, or of the contribution of your hand.

18 “But eat them before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim, in the place which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim chooses, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Lĕwite who is within your gates. And you shall rejoice before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim in all that you put your hands to.

19 “Guard yourself that you do not forsake the Lĕwite as long as you live in your land.

20 “When 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, ‘Let me eat meat,’ because you long to eat meat, you eat as much meat as your being desires.

21 “When the place where 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you shall slaughter from your herd and from your flock which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat within your gates as much as your being desires.

22 “Only, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you are to eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike eat of it.

23 “Only, be firm not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, do not eat the life with the meat.

24 “Do not eat it, you pour it on the earth like water.

25 “Do not eat it, that it might be well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the eyes of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.

26 “Only, the qodesh gifts which you have, and your vowed offerings, you are to take up and go to the place which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 chooses.

27 “And you shall make your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim. And the blood of your offerings is poured out on the altar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim, and you eat the meat.

28 “Guard, and obey all these Words which I command you, that it might be well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim.

29 “When 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Elohim cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,