¹¹ “Then the place Adonai your God chooses to make His Name dwell, there you are to bring all that I command you—your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes, the offering of your hand, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to Adonai. ¹² Then you will rejoice before Adonai your God—you and your sons and daughters, your slaves and maids, and the Levite in your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance among you. ¹³ Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in any place you see. ¹⁴ Rather do so only in the place Adonai chooses in one of your tribes—there you are to offer your burnt offerings, and there you are to do all I am commanding you.

¹⁵ “However, you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates—whatever your soul’s desire, according to the blessing Adonai your God has given you. Either the unclean or clean may eat of it, as they would a gazelle and or deer. ¹⁶ But you are not to eat the blood—you are to pour it out on the ground like water. ¹⁷ You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the offering of your hand. ¹⁸ Rather you are to eat them before Adonai your God in the place Adonai your God chooses—you, your son and daughter, your slave and maid, and the Levite within your gates—and you will rejoice before Adonai your God in every undertaking of your hand. ¹⁹ Be careful that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live on the earth.

²⁰ “When Adonai your God enlarges your territory as He has promised you, and you say, ‘I want to eat meat,’ because your soul craves meat, then you may eat meat—all your soul’s desire. ²¹ If the place Adonai your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of your herd and flock that Adonai has given you—as I have commanded you—and you may eat within your gates, all your soul’s desire. ²² Just as the gazelle or hart is eaten, so you may eat it—the unclean and clean alike may eat it. ²³ Only be sure that you do not eat the blood—for the blood is the life,^[a] and you are not to eat the life with the meat. ²⁴ You are not to eat it—you are to pour it out on the ground like water. ²⁵ You are not to eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in Adonai’s eyes.

²⁶ “Only the holy things and vow offerings that are yours are you to take and go to the place that Adonai chooses. ²⁷ You are to offer your burnt offerings—the flesh and the blood—on the altar of Adonai your God. The blood of your sacrifices is to be poured out on the altar of Adonai your God, but the meat you are to eat. ²⁸ Take care and listen to all these words that I am commanding you, so that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of Adonai your God.