Deuteronomy 12:13-28

13Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see,

14but at the place that the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.

15"However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.

16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

17You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or the contribution that you present,

18but you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place that the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake.

19Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

20"When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat meat,' because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.

21If the place that the Lord your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.

22Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.

23Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

25You shall not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

26But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place that the Lord will choose,

27and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, but the flesh you may eat.

28Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.