Single Worship Site and Proper Rites
Deuteronomy 12–13 (selections)
Biblical Period
Chapter 12
1These are the laws and rules that you must carefully observe in the land that the Lord, God of your fathers, is giving you to possess, as long as you live on earth.
2You must destroy all the sites at which the nations you are to dispossess worshiped their gods, whether on lofty mountains and on hills or under any luxuriant tree. 3Tear…
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