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"These are the statutes and the judgmentswhich you shall carefullyobserve in the landwhich the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long* as you live on the earth.
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"You shall utterlydestroyall the placeswhere* the nationswhom you shall dispossessserve their gods, on the highmountains and on the hills and undereverygreentree.
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"You shall teardown their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cutdown the engravedimages of their gods and obliterate their name from that place.
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"You shall not actlikethis toward the LORD your God.
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"But you shall seek the LORD at the placewhich the LORD your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His namethere for His dwelling, and there you shall come.
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"There you shall bring your burntofferings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votiveofferings, your freewillofferings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.
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"There also you and your households shall eatbefore the LORD your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the LORD your God has blessed you.