21. If the place where Yahweh your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.
22. Indeed, you may eat it as the gazelle and deer are eaten; both the clean and the unclean may eat it.
23. But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
24. Do not eat blood; pour it on the ground like water.
25. Do not eat it, so that you and your children after you will prosper, because you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.
26. “But you are to take the holy offerings you have and your vow offerings and go to the place the Lord chooses.
27. Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your other sacrifices is to be poured out beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat.
28. Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that you and your children after you may prosper forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
29. “When the Lord your God annihilates the nations before you, which you are entering to take possession of, and you drive them out and live in their land,
30. be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, ‘How did these nations worship their gods? I’ll also do the same.’
31. You must not do the same to the Lord your God, because they practice every detestable thing, which the Lord hates, for their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
32. You must be careful to do everything I command you; do not add anything to it or take anything away from it.