Deuteronomy 12:12-16
Deuteronomy 12:12
And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 12:13
“Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in any cultic place that you see,
Deuteronomy 12:14
but only in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes: there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do everything that I command you.
Deuteronomy 12:15
“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as the gazelle and the deer.
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.