Holman Christian Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 12:9-16 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

9. Indeed, you have not yet come into the resting place and the inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

10. When you cross the Jordan and live in the land the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you live in security,

11. then Yahweh your God will choose the place to have His name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord.

12. You will rejoice before the Lord your God — you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

13. Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in all the sacred places you see.

14. You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I command you.

15. “But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the Lord your God has given you. Those who are clean or unclean may eat it, as they would a gazelle or deer,

16. but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.