³ “Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp, ⁴ and ^(A)has not brought it to the doorway of the tent of meeting to bring it near as an offering to Yahweh before the ^[a]tabernacle of Yahweh, it will be counted as bloodguiltiness to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people. ^5 [b]The reason is so that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they were sacrificing in the open field, that they may bring them in to Yahweh, at the doorway of the tent of meeting to the priest, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.

² You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the ^(A)high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

¹³ “^(A)Beware, lest you offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see, ¹⁴ but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.

^43 (A)And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn away from it, doing what is right in the sight of Yahweh. ^(B)However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.