23. but be sure you don’t eat the blood, because the life is in the blood. Don’t eat the life with the meat.
24. Don’t eat the blood, but pour it out on the ground like water.
25. If you don’t eat it, things will go well for you and your children, because you will be doing what the Lord says is right.
26. Take your holy things and the things you have promised to give, and go to the place the Lord will choose.
27. Present your burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord your God, both the meat and the blood. The blood of your sacrifices should be poured beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat.
28. Be careful to obey all the rules I am giving you so that things will always go well for you and your children, and you will be doing what the Lord your God says is good and right.
29. You will enter the land and take it away from the nations that the Lord your God will destroy ahead of you. When you force them out and live in their land,
30. they will be destroyed for you, but be careful not to be trapped by asking about their gods. Don’t say, “How do these nations worship? I will do the same.”
31. Don’t worship the Lord your God that way, because the Lord hates the evil ways they worship their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters as sacrifices to their gods!
32. Be sure to do everything I have commanded you. Do not add anything to it, and do not take anything away from it.