1   These are the preceptes and iudgementes, that you must do in the Land, which the Lord God of thy fathers wil geue thee, to possesse it al the daies, that thou shalt goe vpon the earth.

2   Subuert al places, wherein the nations, which you shal possesse, worshipped their goddes vpon the high mountaines, and hilles, and vnder euerie tree ful of leaues.

3   Ouerthrow their altares, and breake their statues, their groues burne with fire, and their Idols hewe al to peeces: destroy their names out of those places.

4   You shal not doe so to the Lord your God:

5   but ^note to the place, which the Lord your God hath chosen of al your tribes, to put his name there and to dwel in it, shal you come:

6   and shal offer in that place your holocaustes and victimes, the tithes and first fruites of your handes, and your vowes and donaries, the first borne of your oxen and sheepe.

7   And you shal eate there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shal reioyce in al thinges, whereunto you shal put your hand, you and your house, wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you.

8   You shal not doe there the thinges, that we doe here this day ^note euerie man that which seemeth good to him self.

9   For vntil this present time you are not come to rest, and to the possession, which the Lord your God wil geue you.

10   You shal passe ouer Iordan, and shal dwel in the Land, which the Lord your God wil geue you, that you may haue rest from al enemies round about: and may dwel without al feare,

11   in the place, which the Lord your God shal choose, that his name may be therin. Thither shal you bring al the thinges, that I command you, holocaustes, and hostes, and tithes, and the first fruites of your handes: and whatsoeuer is the principal in the giftes, that you shal vowe to our Lord.

12   There

Precepts and Iudgements. shal you feaste before the Lord your God, you and your sonnes and daughters, men seruantes and wemen seruantes, and the Leuite, that dwelleth in your cities, for he hath no other part and possession among you.

13   Beware thou offer not thy holocaustes in euerie place, that thou shalt see:

14   but in that, which our Lord shal choose, in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer hostes, and shalt doe what thinges soeuer I command thee.

15   But if thou wilt eate, and the eating of flesh delight thee, kil, and eate according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath geuen thee in thy cities: whether it be vncleane, that is to say, blemished and feeble: or cleane, that is to say, sound and without blemish, such as is lawful to be offered, as the doa and the hatt, shalt thou eate it,

16   only without eating of the bloud, which thou shalt power out vpon the earth as water.

17   Thou canst not eate in thy townes the tithe of thy corne, and wine, and oyle, the first borne of thy heardes and cattel, and al thinges that thou vowest, and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and the first fruites of thy handes:

18   but before the Lord thy God shalt thou eate them in the place, which the Lord thy God shal choose, thou and thy sonne and thy daughter, and man seruant, and woman seruant, and the Leuite, that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou shalt reioyce and be refreshed before the Lord thy God in al thinges, whereunto thou shalt extend thy hand.

19   Take heede thou forsake not the Leuite al the time that thou liuest in the land.

20   When the Lord thy God shal haue dilated thy borders, as he hath spoken to thee, and thou wilt eate the flesh, that thy soule desireth:

21   and if the place be farre of, which the Lord thy God shal choose, that his name may be there, thou shalt kil of the heardes and cattel, which thou hast as I haue commanded thee, and shalt eate in thy townes, as it pleaseth thee.

22   As the doa is eaten and the hart, so shalt thou eate them: both the cleane and vncleane shal eate in common.

23   This onlie beware, that thou eate not the bloud, for their bloud is for the soule: and therfore thou must not eate the soule with the flesh:

24   but vpon the earth thou shalt power it as water,

25   that it may be wel with thee and thy children after thee, when thou shalt doe that which pleaseth in the sight of our Lord.

26   But the thinges which thou hast sanctified, and vowed to our Lord, thou shalt take vp, and shalt come to the place, which

Precepts and Iudgements. our Lord shal choose:

27   and shalt offer thy oblations the flesh and the bloud vpon the altar of the Lord thy God: the bloud of thy hostes thou shalt power on the altar: and the flesh thy self shalt eate.

28   Obserue and heare al thinges that I command thee, that it may be wel with thee and thy children after thee for euer, when thou shalt doe that which is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.

29   When the Lord thy God shal haue destroyed before thy face the nations, that thou entrest in to possesse, and thou shalt possesse them, and dwel in their land:

30   beware left thou imitate them, after they be subuerted at thy entring in, and thou require their ceremonies, saying: As these nations haue worshipped their goddes, so wil I also worshippe.

31   Thou shalt not doe in like maner to the Lord thy God. For al the abominations, that our Lord doeth abhorre, haue they done to their goddes, offering their sonnes and daughters, and burning them with fyre.

32   What I command thee,09Q0161 that onlie doe to our Lord: neither adde any thing, nor diminish.

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