Words יב

¹these are the statutes and the laws which you (PL) shall keep to do in the land which Hashem the G-d of your fathers has you(SG) given, it to inherit/possess, all days which you (PL) live on the land.

²destroy must you (PL) destroy all places where the nations/peoples which you (PL) inherit them have there served their g-ds, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

³and you (PL) shall throw down their altars, and break their sacred pillars, and their Asherah/cult pillar shall you (PL) burn up in fire, and their carved g-ds shall you (PL) hew down, and you (PL) shall destroy/stamp out their names of that place.

⁴you (PL) shall not do so as them, to Hashem your G-d.

⁵but to the place which Hashem your G-d will choose out of all your (PL) tribes to do/set his name there – to his resting place shall you (PL) you (PL) turn, and there shall you (PL) go.

⁶and there shall you (PL) bring your (PL) olah/burnt offerings and your (PL) slaughter sacrifice/zavach, and your (PL) tithes, and the separation of a portion/contribution of your hand, and your (PL) vows, and your (PL) freewill freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your (PL) cattle and your (PL) sheep.

⁷and you (PL) shall there eat before Hashem your G-d, and self rejoice with the entire output/labor of your hand, you (PL) and your (PL) household, according as Hashem your G-d has you blessed.

⁸you (PL) shall not do so as all that which we do here today, each all that which is upright in his eyes;

⁹for you (PL) are up to now not having come to the rest and to the inheritance which Hashem your G-d gives you(SG).

¹⁰but when you (PL) will cross over the Yarden, and you (PL) will self settle in the land which Hashem your G-d makes you (PL) inherit/possess, and he will you (PL) give rest of all your (PL) enemies of around round, and you (PL) will sit in security,

¹¹shall be: the place which Hashem your G-d will him choose to make rest his name there, there shall you (PL) bring all that which I command you (PL): your (PL) olah/burnt offering and your (PL) slaughter sacrifice/zavach, your (PL) tithes, and the separation of a portion/contribution of your hand, and all your (PL) chosen/finest vows which you (PL) will vow be to G-d.

¹²and you (PL) shall self rejoice before Hashem your G-d, you (PL), and your (PL) sons and your (PL) daughters, and your (PL) servants and your (PL) maid servants, and the Levi which in your (PL) gates; because he has not any portion and any inheritance with you (PL).

¹³beware you, you(SG) must not bring up your olah/burnt offering in each place which you (sg) will see;

¹⁴but in the place which Hashem will choose in one of your tribes, there shall you (sg) bring up your olah/burnt offering, and there shall you (sg) do all that which I command you(SG).

¹⁵but may as much as your heart desire sacrifice and eat flesh in all your gates, as after the blessing of Hashem your G-d which he has you(SG) given; the unclean so as the pure may it eat, so as a gazelle and as a deer.

¹⁶but the blood shall you (PL) not eat; on the earth shall you (sg) it pour out/cast(mould) so as water.

¹⁷forbidden not eat in your gates the tithe of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the firstlings of your cattle and your sheep, and all vows which you (sg) will vow be, and your freewill freewill offerings, and the separation of a portion/contribution of your hand;

¹⁸but for Hashem your G-d shall you (sg) it eat, in the place which Hashem your G-d will him choose, you (sg), and your son and your daughter, and your servants and your female servant, and the Levi which in your gates. and you(SG) must self rejoice before Hashem your G-d with the entire output/labor of your hand.

¹⁹beware you, you(SG) must not forsake the Levi, all days on your land.

²⁰that Hashem your G-d will enlarge your boundary, so as he has you(SG) promised, and you(sg) will say: let me eat flesh, because your heart will desire to eat flesh, you may eat flesh as much as your heart desire.

²¹if it will be far from you(SG) the place which Hashem your G-d will choose to do/set his name there, shall you (sg) sacrifice from your cattle and of your sheep which G-d has you(SG) given, so as I have you(SG) commanded, and eat in your gates as much as your heart desire.

²²but as one eats a gazelle and a deer, so shall you (sg) it eat; the unclean in together with pure may it eat.

²³only be resolute not to eat the blood, because this blood is the life, and not be allowed to not eat the life with flesh.

²⁴you(SG) must it not eat; on the land shall you (sg) it pour out so as water.

²⁵you(SG) must it not eat, so that it shall good be you(SG) and your children after you(SG), that you (sg) will do what is upright in the eyes of Hashem.

²⁶only your holy things which will be with you(SG), and your vows, shall you (sg) take and go to the place which Hashem will choose;

²⁷and you(SG) must make your olah/burnt offering, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Hashem your G-d; and the blood of your slaughter sacrifice/zavach shall poured out become on the altar of G-d your Lord, and the flesh shall you (sg) eat.

²⁸beware and you(SG) must obey all the these words which I command you(SG), so that it shall good be you(SG) and your children after you(SG) until for ever, that you (sg) will do which is good and upright in the eyes of Hashem your G-d.

²⁹when Hashem your G-d will destroy the nations/peoples which you (sg) come there, them to drive before from before you(SG), and will them inherit/dispossess, and self settle in their land,

³⁰beware you, you(SG) must not stumbled/ensnared become them after to do, after as they will exterminated become from before you(SG), and you(SG) must not ask after after their g-ds, so to say: how would the these nations/peoples serve their g-ds? then let me also in same way do.

³¹you(SG) must not do so to Hashem your G-d; for every abomination of Hashem, which he has enemies, have they done to their g-ds; for even their sons and their daughters burn up they in fire to their g-ds.