2. Overturn all the places where the nations, which you will possess, worshipped their gods on lofty mountains, and on hills, and under every leafy tree.
3. Scatter their altars and break their statues. Burn their sacred groves with fire and crush their idols. Abolish their names from those places.
4. But you shall not do the same to the Lord your God.
5. Instead, you shall approach the place which the Lord your God will choose among all your tribes, so that he may set his name there, and may dwell in that place.
6. And you shall offer, in that place, your holocausts and victims, the tithes and first-fruits of your hands, and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of the cattle and of the sheep.
7. And you shall eat it there, in the sight of the Lord your God. And you shall rejoice in all the things to which you shall set your hand: you and your household, which the Lord your God has blessed for you.
8. You shall not do there the things that we are doing here today: each one doing what seems good to himself.
9. For even until the present time, you did not arrive at the rest and the possession, which the Lord your God will give to you.
10. You shall cross over the Jordan, and you shall live in the land which the Lord your God will give to you, so that you may have rest from all the surrounding enemies, and so that you may live without any fear,