You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the LORD your God’s altar. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the LORD your God’s altar, and you shall eat the meat.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 12:27 in context
Deuteronomy 12:24–30
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You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
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You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in the LORD’s eyes.
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Only 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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You shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the LORD your God’s altar. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the LORD your God’s altar, and you shall eat the meat.
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Observe 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 LORD your God’s eyes.
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When the LORD your God cuts 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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be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after 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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