Deuteronomy 12:15-32 - Slaughtering Animals To Eat
15 However, with all your soul's desire you shall sacrifice and eat flesh in all your gates, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which He has given you, the clean and the unclean, one may eat, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart. 16 Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the earth like water. 17 You may not eat inside your gates the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the first-born of your herds or of your flock, or any of your vows which you vow, or your free-will offerings or the heave offering of your hand. 18 But you must eat them before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God shall choose; you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite within your gates. And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God in all that you put your hand to. 19 Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on the earth.
20 When Jehovah your God shall make your border larger, as He has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul desires. 21 If the place which Jehovah your God has chosen to put His name there is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatever your soul desires. 22 Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so you shall eat them. The unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood. For the blood is the life. And you may not eat the life with the flesh. 24 You shall not eat it. You shall pour it on the earth like water. 25 You shall not eat it, so that it may go well with you and with your sons after you, when you shall do what is right in the sight of Jehovah.
26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which Jehovah shall choose. 27 And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Jehovah your God. And the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Jehovah your God, and you shall eat the flesh. 28 Be careful to hear all these words which I command you, so that it may go well with you and with your sons after you forever, when you do the good and right in the sight of Jehovah your God.
29 When Jehovah your God shall cut off the nations before you, where you go to possess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land, 30 take heed to yourself that you do not become snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not ask about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, that I too may do likewise? 31 You shall not do so to Jehovah your God. For every abomination to Jehovah, which He hates, they have done to their gods; even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods. 32 All the things I command you, be careful to do it. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.