Deuteronomy 12:1-14

1“These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess 12as long as you live on the 3earth. 2You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the 4high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 35You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their 6Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and 7obliterate their name from that place. 4You shall not act like this toward the Lord your God. 58But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come. 6There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, 9your tithes, the 10contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. 7There also you and your households shall eat before the Lord your God, and 11rejoice in all 12your undertakings in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

8“You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, 13every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes; 9for you have not as yet come to 14the resting place and the 15inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you. 10When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and 16He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security, 1117then it shall come about that the place in which the Lord your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the 18contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the Lord. 12And you shall 19rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the 20Levite who is within your gates, since 21he has no portion or inheritance with you.

13“22Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see, 14but in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.