Deuteronomy 12 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Laws of the Sanctuary

Deu 12:1These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.

Deu 12:2

Deu 12:2You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

Deu 12:3

Deu 12:3Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.

Deu 12:4

Deu 12:4Do not so to the Lord your God.

Deu 12:5

Deu 12:5But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;

Deu 12:6

Deu 12:6And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;

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Deu 12:7There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

Deu 12:8

Deu 12:8You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:

Deu 12:9

Deu 12:9For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

Deu 12:10

Deu 12:10But when you have gone over Jordan and are living in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as your heritage, and when he has given you rest from all those on every side who are fighting against you, and you are living there safely;

Deu 12:11

Deu 12:11Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;

Deu 12:12

Deu 12:12And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.

Deu 12:13

Deu 12:13Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:

Deu 12:14

Deu 12:14But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to do.

Deu 12:15

Deu 12:15Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.

Deu 12:16

Deu 12:16But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

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Deu 12:17In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;

Deu 12:18

Deu 12:18But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

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Deu 12:19See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.

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Deu 12:20When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

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Deu 12:21If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.

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Deu 12:22It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.

Deu 12:23

Deu 12:23But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

Deu 12:24

Deu 12:24Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

Deu 12:25

Deu 12:25Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

Deu 12:26

Deu 12:26But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord:

Deu 12:27

Deu 12:27Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.

Deu 12:28

Deu 12:28Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

Deu 12:29

Deu 12:29When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

Deu 12:30

Deu 12:30After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

Deu 12:31

Deu 12:31Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

Deu 12:32

Deu 12:32You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Laws of the Sanctuary

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