Deuteronomy 12:2-14

2You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you are going to dispossess serve their gods, on the 1high mountains, on the hills, and under every leafy tree. 3And 2you shall tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones to pieces, and burn their 3Asherim in the fire, and cut to pieces the carved images of their gods; and you shall 4eliminate their name from that place. 4You shall not act this way toward the Lord your God. 55But 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 you shall come there. 6You shall bring there your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, 6your tithes, the 7contribution of your hand, your vowed offerings, your 8voluntary offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. 7There you and your households shall eat before the Lord your God, and 9rejoice in all 10your undertakings in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

8“You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, 11everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes; 9for you have not as yet come to 12the resting place and the 13inheritance 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 as an inheritance, and 14He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security, 1115then it shall come about that the place in which the Lord your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring everything that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the 16contribution of your hand, and all your choice vowed offerings which you will vow to the Lord. 12And you shall 17rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the 18Levite who is within your gates, since 19he has no portion or inheritance with you.

13“20Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in any cultic place that you see, 14but 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.