1These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.

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1 Kings 8:40, 1 Kings 8:40, Job 7:1, Job 7:1, Deuteronomy 4:9

2You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

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Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:25, Deuteronomy 7:26, Numbers 33:51

3and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.

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Numbers 33:52, Judges 2:2, Numbers 33:52, Judges 2:2, Zechariah 13:2

4You shall not do so to the Lord your God.

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Leviticus 20:23, Leviticus 20:23, Deuteronomy 20:18, Deuteronomy 20:18, Deuteronomy 12:30

5But to the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come;

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Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 26:2, Deuteronomy 26:2, 2 Chronicles 7:12

6and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock:

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Deuteronomy 15:19, Deuteronomy 15:20, Deuteronomy 15:19, Deuteronomy 15:20, Deuteronomy 14:22

7and there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

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Deuteronomy 12:18, Deuteronomy 12:18, Leviticus 23:40, Deuteronomy 14:26, Leviticus 23:40

8You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

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Judges 21:25, Judges 21:25, Judges 17:6, Judges 17:6, Proverbs 21:2

9for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God gives you.

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1 Kings 8:56, 1 Kings 8:56, Deuteronomy 25:19, Psalms 95:11, Deuteronomy 25:19

10But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety;

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Jeremiah 33:11, Ezekiel 34:28, Jeremiah 33:11, Ezekiel 34:28, Deuteronomy 11:31

11then it shall happen that to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the Lord.

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Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 15:20, Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 15:20, John 4:20

12You shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

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Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 26:12, Deuteronomy 10:9, Deuteronomy 26:12

13Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

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1 Kings 15:34, Leviticus 17:2, Leviticus 17:5, Deuteronomy 12:6, 2 Chronicles 15:17

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

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Deuteronomy 12:11, 2 Corinthians 5:19, Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:11, 2 Corinthians 5:19

15Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, 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 as of the hart.

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Deuteronomy 14:5, Deuteronomy 14:5, Deuteronomy 14:26, Deuteronomy 12:20, Deuteronomy 12:23

16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

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Genesis 9:4, Genesis 9:4, Deuteronomy 15:23, Deuteronomy 15:23, Deuteronomy 12:23

17You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;

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Deuteronomy 26:14, Deuteronomy 26:14, Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 14:22, Deuteronomy 14:29

18but you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you put your hand to.

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Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 14:23, Deuteronomy 14:23, Deuteronomy 12:5

19Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

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2 Chronicles 31:4, 2 Chronicles 31:21, 2 Chronicles 31:4, 2 Chronicles 31:21, 2 Chronicles 11:13

20When the Lord your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, "I want to eat meat," because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

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Deuteronomy 19:8, Deuteronomy 19:8, Deuteronomy 11:24, Deuteronomy 11:24, Exodus 34:24

21If the place which the Lord your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

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Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:5, Ezra 6:12, Deuteronomy 16:6, Deuteronomy 16:11

22Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.

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Deuteronomy 12:15, Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 12:15, Deuteronomy 12:16

23Only be sure that you do not eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

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Leviticus 17:11, Leviticus 17:11, Genesis 9:4, Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 17:13

24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

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Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 15:23, Deuteronomy 12:16, Deuteronomy 15:23

25You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord.

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Isaiah 3:10, Deuteronomy 4:40, 1 Kings 11:38, Exodus 15:26, Isaiah 3:10

26Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which the Lord shall choose:

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Numbers 18:19, Numbers 5:9, Numbers 5:10, Numbers 18:19, Numbers 5:9

27and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God; and you shall eat the flesh.

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Leviticus 17:11, Leviticus 1:13, Leviticus 1:9, Leviticus 17:11, Leviticus 1:13

28Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

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John 15:14, John 15:10, Deuteronomy 4:40, John 15:14, John 15:10

29When the Lord your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;

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Joshua 23:4, Joshua 23:4, Deuteronomy 19:1, Deuteronomy 19:1, Exodus 23:23

30take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise."

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Jeremiah 10:2, Ezekiel 20:32, Jeremiah 10:2, Ezekiel 20:32, Deuteronomy 7:16

31You shall not do so to the Lord your God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.

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Jeremiah 32:35, Jeremiah 32:35, 2 Kings 21:2, 2 Kings 17:15, 2 Kings 17:17

32Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

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Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 4:2, Revelation 22:18, Revelation 22:19, Revelation 22:18