New American Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 12:8-16 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

8. "You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes;

9. for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you.

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

11. then it shall come about that the place in which the Lord your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the Lord.

12. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.

13. "Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see,

14. but in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

15. "However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

16. Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.