(26) See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: (27) blessing, if you obey the commandments of the ETERNAL your God that I enjoin upon you this day; (28) and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the ETERNAL your God, but turn away from the path that I enjoin upon you this day and follow other gods, whom you have not experienced. (29) When the ETERNAL your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and possess, you shall pronounce the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.— (30) Both are on the other side of the Jordan, beyond the west road that is in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah—near Gilgal, by the terebinths of Moreh. (31) For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the ETERNAL your God is assigning to you. When you have occupied it and are settled in it,

(32) take care to observe all the laws and rules that I have set before you this day. (1) These are the laws and rules that you must carefully observe in the land that the ETERNAL, God of your ancestors, is giving you to possess, as long as you live on earth. (2) You must destroy all the sites at which the nations you are to dispossess worshiped their gods, whether on lofty mountains and on hills or under any luxuriant tree. (3) Tear down their altars, smash their pillars, put their sacred posts to the fire, and cut down the images of their gods, obliterating their name from that site. (4) Do not worship the ETERNAL your God in like manner, (5) but look only to the site that the ETERNAL your God will choose amidst all your tribes as God’s habitation, to establish the divine name there. There you are to go,

(6) and there you are to bring your burnt offerings and other sacrifices, your tithes and contributions, your votive and freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks. (7) Together with your households, you shall feast there before the ETERNAL your God, happy in all the undertakings in which the ETERNAL your God has blessed you. (8) You shall not act at all as we now act here, everyone as they please, (9) because you have not yet come to the allotted haven that the ETERNAL your God is giving you. (10) When you cross the Jordan and settle in the land that the ETERNAL your God is allotting to you, and you are granted safety from all your enemies around you and you live in security,

(11) then you must bring everything that I command you to the site where the ETERNAL your God will choose to establish the divine name: your burnt offerings and other sacrifices, your tithes and contributions, and all the choice votive offerings that you vow to GOD. (12) And you shall rejoice before the ETERNAL your God with your sons and daughters and with your male and female slaves, along with the Levite in your settlements, for he has no territorial allotment among you. (13) Take care not to sacrifice your burnt offerings in any place you like, (14) but only in the place that GOD will choose in one of your tribal territories. There you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings and there you shall observe all that I enjoin upon you. (15) But whenever you desire, you may slaughter and eat meat in any of your settlements, according to the blessing that the ETERNAL your God has granted you. The impure and the pure alike may partake of it, as of the gazelle and the deer. (16) But you must not partake of the blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

(17) You may not partake in your settlements of the tithes of your new grain or wine or oil, or of the firstlings of your herds and flocks, or of any of the votive offerings that you vow, or of your freewill offerings, or of your contributions. (18) These you must consume before the ETERNAL your God in the place that the ETERNAL your God will choose—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite in your settlements—happy before the ETERNAL your God in all your undertakings. (19) Be sure not to neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

(20) When GOD enlarges your territory, as promised, and you say, “I shall eat some meat,” for you have the urge to eat meat, you may eat meat whenever you wish. (21) If the place where GOD has chosen to establish the divine name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of the cattle or sheep that GOD gives you, as I have instructed you; and you may eat to your heart’s content in your settlements. (22) Eat it, however, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten: the impure may eat it together with the pure. (23) But make sure that you do not partake of the blood; for the blood is the life, and you must not consume the life with the flesh. (24) You must not partake of it; you must pour it out on the ground like water: (25) you must not partake of it, in order that it may go well with you and with your descendants to come, for you will be doing what is right in GOD’s sight.

(26) But such sacred and votive donations as you may have shall be taken by you to the site that GOD will choose. (27) You shall offer your burnt offerings, both the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the ETERNAL your God; and of your other sacrifices, the blood shall be poured out on the altar of the ETERNAL your God, and you shall eat the flesh. (28) Be careful to heed all these commandments that I enjoin upon you; thus it will go well with you and with your descendants after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the ETERNAL your God.

(26) But such sacred and votive donations as you may have shall be taken by you to the site that GOD will choose. (27) You shall offer your burnt offerings, both the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the ETERNAL your God; and of your other sacrifices, the blood shall be poured out on the altar of the ETERNAL your God, and you shall eat the flesh. (28) Be careful to heed all these commandments that I enjoin upon you; thus it will go well with you and with your descendants after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the ETERNAL your God.

(11)Unhappy, storm-tossed one, uncomforted!I will lay carbuncles as your building stones
And make your foundations of sapphires.(12)I will make your battlements of rubies,Your gates of precious stones,The whole encircling wall of gems.(13)And all your children shall be disciples of GOD,
And great shall be the happiness of your children;(14)You shall be established through righteousness.You shall be safe from oppression,And shall have no fear;From ruin, and it shall not come near you.(15)Surely no harm can be done
Without My consent:Whoever would harm youShall fall because of you.(16)It is I who created the smithTo fan the charcoal fireAnd produce tools for each purpose;So it is I who createThe instruments of havoc.(17)No weapon formed against youShall succeed,And every tongue that contends with you at lawYou shall defeat.Such is the lot of GOD’s servants,
Such their triumph through Me—declares GOD. (1)Ho, all who are thirsty,Come for water,Even if you have no money;Come, buy food and eat:Buy food without money,Wine and milk without cost.(2)Why do you spend money for what is not bread,Your earnings for what does not satisfy?Give heed to Me,And you shall eat choice foodAnd enjoy the richest viands.(3)Incline your ear and come to Me;Hearken, and you shall be revived.And I will make with you an everlasting covenant,The enduring loyalty promised to David.(4)As I made him a leader of peoples,
A prince and commander of peoples,(5)So you shall summon a nation you did not know,And a nation that did not know youShall come running to you—
For the sake of the ETERNAL your God,
The Holy One of Israel who has glorified you.

(11)Unhappy, storm-tossed one, uncomforted!I will lay carbuncles as your building stones
And make your foundations of sapphires.(12)I will make your battlements of rubies,Your gates of precious stones,The whole encircling wall of gems.(13)And all your children shall be disciples of GOD,
And great shall be the happiness of your children;(14)You shall be established through righteousness.You shall be safe from oppression,And shall have no fear;From ruin, and it shall not come near you.(15)Surely no harm can be done
Without My consent:Whoever would harm youShall fall because of you.(16)It is I who created the smithTo fan the charcoal fireAnd produce tools for each purpose;So it is I who createThe instruments of havoc.(17)No weapon formed against youShall succeed,And every tongue that contends with you at lawYou shall defeat.Such is the lot of GOD’s servants,
Such their triumph through Me—declares GOD. (1)Ho, all who are thirsty,Come for water,Even if you have no money;Come, buy food and eat:Buy food without money,Wine and milk without cost.(2)Why do you spend money for what is not bread,Your earnings for what does not satisfy?Give heed to Me,And you shall eat choice foodAnd enjoy the richest viands.(3)Incline your ear and come to Me;Hearken, and you shall be revived.And I will make with you an everlasting covenant,The enduring loyalty promised to David.(4)As I made him a leader of peoples,
A prince and commander of peoples,(5)So you shall summon a nation you did not know,And a nation that did not know youShall come running to you—
For the sake of the ETERNAL your God,
The Holy One of Israel who has glorified you.