Deuteronomy 12:13-17
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.
Deuteronomy 12:17
You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, new wine, or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your vowed offerings which you vow, or your voluntary offerings, or the contribution of your hand.