Deu 12:5-21 | ESV | STEP | But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there . There you shall go ,

5 But you shall seek ^athe place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation ^{▼▼Or name as its habitation} there. There you shall go, 6 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, ^cyour tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the ^dfirstborn of your herd and of your flock. 7 And ^ethere you shall eat before the Lord your God, and ^fyou shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

8 “You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, ^geveryone doing whatever is right in his own eyes, 9 for you have not as yet come to ^hthe rest and to the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you. 10 But when ⁱyou go over the Jordan and live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, ^jand when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety, 11 then to ^kthe place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, ^lyour tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord. 12 And ^myou shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since ⁿhe has no portion or inheritance with you. 13 ^oTake care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see, 14 but at ^pthe place that the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.

15 “However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, ^qaccording to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. ^rThe unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer. 16 ^sOnly you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water. 17 You may not eat within your towns ^tthe tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your 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 contribution that you present, 18 but ^uyou shall eat them before the Lord your God in ^vthe place that the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And ^wyou shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake. 19 ^xTake care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

20 “When the Lord your God ^yenlarges your territory, ^zas he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire. 21 If ^aathe place that the Lord your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, ^abthen you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.