17. You are not allowed to eat in your towns the tithe of your grain and your wine and your olive oil and the firstborn of your herd and your flock and all of your votive gifts that you vowed and your freewill offering and your donations.
18. But only before Yahweh your God you shall eat it, at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite who is in your towns, and you must rejoice before your God in all your undertakings.
19. Take care so that you do not neglect the Levite all of your days on your land.
20. “When Yahweh your God enlarges your territory just as he has promised to you, and you say ‘I want to eat some meat,’ because you want it, whenever you desire you may eat meat.
21. If the place that Yahweh your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, and you slaughter any of your herd and any of your flock that Yahweh has given to you just as I have commanded you, then you may eat whenever you desire in your towns.
22. Surely just as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so both the unclean and the clean together may eat it.
23. Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
24. You shall not eat it, but on the ground you shall pour it out like water.
25. You shall not eat it, so that it will go well for you and your children after you, because then you will be doing what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
26. Only your holy objects that are yours and your votive gifts you must carry and you must bring to the place that Yahweh will choose.
27. And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood on the altar of Yahweh your God, and the blood of your sacrifices you shall pour out on the altar of Yahweh your God, but the meat you may eat.
28. Be careful to obey all these things that I am commanding you, so that it will go well for you and for your children after you forever, because then you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.