Deuteronomy 12

Gen Z: Deuteronomy 12

1These rules and vibes are what you gotta follow in the land the Lord God gave your fam, for all the days you’re chillin’ on Earth.

2You gotta totally wipe out all the spots where the nations you’re taking over worshipped their gods, on the high mountains, hills, and under every green tree, no cap.

3Smash their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; chop down their graven images and erase their names from that place, fr.

4But don’t do that to the Lord your God, that’s sus.

5Look for the place the Lord your God picks from all your tribes to put His name, and that’s where you gotta go, periodt.

6Bring your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, and all the good stuff you promised, plus the firstlings of your herds and flocks to that spot.

7There you’ll eat before the Lord your God and vibe with all the blessings you and your household got, it’s lit.

8Don’t be doing what we’re doing here today, where everyone thinks they’re right in their own eyes, that’s wild.

9You haven’t made it to the chill spot and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you, just saying.

10But when you cross over Jordan and settle in the land the Lord your God is giving you, and when He gives you peace from all your enemies around, you’ll be living safe, no cap.

11God’s gonna pick a spot for His name to chill, so bring all the stuff I told you—burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, and all those dope vows you promised Him.

12Y’all better vibe and celebrate in front of the Lord your God, you, your fam, and even the homies who help you out, 'cause they don’t have a piece of the inheritance with you.

13Keep it 100 and don’t just throw burnt offerings anywhere you see fit.

14Only in the spot the Lord picks from your tribes, that’s where you bring your burnt offerings and do all the things I said.

15You can totally eat meat in your towns, whatever your heart desires, just know it's all good from the blessings the Lord gave you; both clean and unclean can munch on it, like roebucks and harts.

16Just don’t be sipping on the blood; pour it out on the ground like it’s water.

17You can’t eat the tithe of your grain, wine, oil, or the firstlings of your herds and flocks in your towns, nor any vows or freewill offerings.

18Instead, eat them before the Lord your God in the place He chooses, you, your fam, and the Levite in your gates, and pop off with joy before the Lord in all you do.

19Keep it real and don’t forget about the Levite while you’re living your life on this earth.

20When the Lord expands your territory like He promised, and you’re like, "I wanna eat meat 'cause I’m craving it," then you can eat whatever your heart desires.

21If the spot God picked for His name is too far, just take some of your herd and flock, and eat whatever vibes with you in your gates, no cap.

22Just like you munch on deer, you can eat them too: the clean and unclean can chill together at the feast.

23Just make sure you don’t eat the blood, 'cause that’s the life juice; can’t mix that with the meat, fr.

24Don’t eat it; pour it on the ground like it’s water, periodt.

25Don’t eat it, so things go well for you and your fam when you do what’s right in God’s eyes.

26Just take your holy stuff and vows and roll to the spot God picks for you.

27And like, offer your burnt offerings—the meat and the blood—on the altar of God, and pour out that blood on the altar, then eat the meat.

28Pay attention and hear all these words I’m telling you, so it goes well for you and your kids forever when you do what’s good in God’s sight.

29When God cuts off the nations in front of you, where you’re headed to take over, and you chill in their land;

30Be careful not to get trapped by following them after they’re destroyed; don’t ask about their gods, saying, “How did they serve their gods?” 'Cause you don't wanna do that, sus.

31Yo, don’t be doing that to God, fam. All the wild stuff He hates, they did it to their gods, even burning their kids in the fire. That’s just sus.

32Whatever I tell you, just do it, no cap. Don’t add anything or take anything away, periodt.

KJV: Deuteronomy 12

1These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

3And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

4Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God.

5But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

6And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:

7And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

8Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

9For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth you.

10But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the Lord your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;

11Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord:

12And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.

13Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

14But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

15Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

16Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

17Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

18But thou must eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

19Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

20When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

21If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the Lord hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

22Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

24Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

25Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.

26Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the Lord shall choose:

27And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the Lord thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the Lord thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.

28Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.

29When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;

30Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

31Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

32What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

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