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Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.
Day 100 and 53
these are the decrees and regulations
you must be careful to obey when you
live in the land that the Lord, the
God of your ancestors is giving you.
You must obey them as long as you live.
When you drive out the nations that
live there, you must destroy all the
places where they worship their gods.
High on the mountains, up on the
hills, and under every green tree.
Break down their altars and smash their
sacred pillars, burn their asherah
poles and cut down their carved idols.
Completely erase the names of their gods.
Do not worship the Lord your
God, in the way these pagan
peoples worship their gods.
Rather, you must seek the Lord
your God at the place of worship.
He himself will choose from
among all the tribes, the place
where his name will be honored.
There you will bring your burnt offerings,
your sacrifices, your tithes, your
sacred offerings, your offerings to
fulfill a vow, your voluntary offerings,
and your offerings of the firstborn
animals of your herds and flocks.
There, you and your families will feast in
the presence of the Lord your God, and you
will rejoice in all you have accomplished
because the Lord your God has blessed you.
Your pattern of worship will change.
Today all of you are doing as you
please because you have not yet
arrived at the place of rest the land.
The Lord your God is giving you as your
special possession, but he will soon
cross the Jordan River and live in the
land the Lord your God is giving you.
When he gives you rest from all
your enemies and you're living
safely in the land, you must bring
everything I command you, your burnt
offerings, your sacrifices, your
tithes, your sacred offerings, and
your offerings to fulfill a vow.
To the designated place of worship,
the place the Lord your God chooses
for his name to be honored, you must
celebrate there in the presence of
the Lord your God, with your sons
and daughters and all your servants.
And remember to include the Levites
who live in your towns, for they will
receive no allotment of land among you.
Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt
offerings just anywhere you like.
You may do so only at the place
the Lord will choose within
one of your tribal territories.
There.
You must offer your burnt offerings and
do everything I command you, but you
may butcher your animals and eat their
meat in any town whenever you want,
you may freely eat the animals with
which the Lord your God blesses you.
All of you, whether ceremonially,
clean or unclean, may eat that meat
just as you now eat gazelle and deer.
But you must not consume the blood.
You must pour it out on
the ground like water.
But you may not eat your offerings
in your hometown, neither the tithe
of your grain and new wine and
olive oil, nor the firstborn of your
flocks and herds, nor any offering
to fulfill a vow nor your voluntary
offerings, nor your sacred offerings.
You must eat these in the
presence of the Lord your God,
at the place he will choose.
Eat them there with your
children, your servants, and the
Levites who live in your towns.
Celebrating in the presence of
the Lord your God, and all you do.
And be very careful never to neglect the
Levites as long as you live in your land.
When the Lord, your God expands your
territory as he has promised, and you
have the urge to eat meat, you may
freely eat meat whenever you want.
It might happen that the designated
place of worship, the place the Lord
your God, chooses for His name to be
honored is a long way from your home.
If so, you may butcher any of the cattle,
sheep, or goats the Lord has given
you, and you may freely eat the meat in
your hometown, as I have commanded you.
Anyone, whether ceremonially, clean
or unclean, may eat that meat just
as you do now with gazelle and
deer, but never consume the blood.
For the blood is the life, and you must
not consume the lifeblood with the meat.
Instead, pour out the blood
on the ground like water.
Do not consume the blood so that
all may go well with you and your
children after you because you will
be doing what pleases the Lord.
Take your sacred gifts and your
offerings given to fulfill a vow
to the place the Lord chooses.
You must offer the meat and
blood of your burnt offerings and
the altar of the Lord your God.
The blood of your other sacrifices must
be poured out on the altar of the Lord
your God, but you may eat the meat.
Be careful to obey all my commands
so that all will go well with you
and your children after you, because
you will be doing what is good
and pleasing to the Lord your God.
When the Lord, your God goes ahead of
you and destroys the nations, and you
drive them out and live in their land,
do not fall into the trap of following
their customs and worshiping their gods.
Do not inquire about their gods saying,
how do these nations worship their gods?
I want to follow their example.
You must not worship the Lord your God,
the way the other nations worship their
gods, for they perform for their god's.
Every detestable act that the Lord
hates, they even burn their sons and
daughters as sacrifices to their gods.
So be careful to obey all
the commands I give you.
You must not add anything to them
or subtract anything from them.
Suppose there are prophets among you or
those who dream dreams about the future
and they promise you signs or miracles
and the predicted signs or miracles occur.
If they then say, come let us worship
other Gods Gods you have not known before.
Do not listen to them.
The Lord your God is testing you
to see if you truly love him.
With all your heart and soul, serve only
the Lord your God and fear him alone.
Obey his commands.
Listen to his voice and clinging to him.
The false prophets or visionaries
who try to lead you astray must
be put to death for they encourage
rebellion against the Lord your God,
who redeemed you from slavery and
brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Since they try to lead you astray from
the way the Lord your God commanded you
to live, you must put them to death.
In this way, you will purge
the evil from among you.
Suppose someone secretly entices
you, even your brother, your son or
daughter, your beloved wife or your
closest friend, and says, let us go
worship other Gods gods that neither
you nor your ancestors have known.
They might suggest that you worship
the gods of peoples who live nearby
or who come from the ends of the
earth, but do not give in or listen.
Have no pity and do not
spare or protect them.
You must put them to death.
Strike the first blow yourself,
and then all the people must join
in stone, the guilty ones to death
because they have tried to draw
you away from the Lord your God.
Who rescued you from the land
of Egypt, the place of slavery.
Then all Israel will hear about
it and be afraid, and no one
will act so wickedly again.
When you begin living in the towns
the Lord your God is giving you, you
may hear that scoundrels among you are
leading their fellow citizens astray
by saying, let us go worship other
Gods Gods you have not known before.
In such cases, you must
examine the facts carefully.
If you find that the report is true
and such a detestable act has been
committed among you, you must attack
that town and completely destroy all its
inhabitants, as well as all the livestock.
Then you must pile all the plunder
in the middle of the open square and
burn it, burn the entire town as a
burnt offering to the Lord Your God,
that town must remain a ruin forever.
It may never be rebuilt.
Keep none of the plunder that has
been set apart for destruction,
then the Lord will turn from his
fierce anger and be merciful to you.
He will have compassion on you
and make you a large nation just
as he swore to your ancestors.
The Lord your God will be merciful only
if you listen to his voice and keep all
his commands that I'm giving you today.
Doing what pleases him.
Since you are the people of the
Lord your God, never cut yourselves
or shave the hair above your
foreheads in mourning for the dead.
You have been set apart as holy to
the Lord your God, and he has chosen
you from all the nations of the
earth to be his own special treasure.
You must not eat any detestable
animals that are ceremonially, unclean.
These are the animals you
may eat, the ox the sheep.
The goat, the deer, the gazelle, the
row deer, the wild goat, the attics,
the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
You may eat any animal that has completely
split hooves and choose the cudd, but
if the animal doesn't have both, it
may not be eaten, so you may not eat
the camel, the hair, or the high racks.
They chew the cud but do not
have split hooves, so they are
ceremonially unclean for you.
And you may not eat the pig.
It has split hooves but does
not chew the cudd, so it is
ceremonially unclean for you.
You may not eat the meat of
these animals or even touch their
carcasses of all the marine animals.
You may eat whatever has
both fins and scales.
You may not, however, eat marine animals
that do not have both fins and scales.
They're ceremonially unclean for you.
You may eat any bird that
is ceremonially clean.
These are the birds you may not eat.
The Griffin vulture, the bearded
vulture, the black vulture, the
kite, the falcon buzzards of
all kinds, ravens of all kinds.
The eagle owl, the short eared owl,
the seagull hawks of all kinds.
The little owl, the great owl, the barn
owl, the desert owl, the Egyptian vulture.
The Coran, the stork herons of
all kinds, the whooo and the bat.
All winged insects that walk along
the ground are ceremonially unclean
for you and may not be eaten, but
you may eat any winged bird or
insect that a ceremonially clean.
You must not eat anything
that has died a natural death.
You may give it to a foreigner living
in your town, or you may sell it to a
stranger, but do not eat it yourselves.
For you are set apart as holy to
the Lord your God, you must not cook
a young goat in its mother's milk.
This concludes today's
immerse reading experience.
Thank you for joining us.