1 "These are the statutes and ordinances which you shall be careful to do in the land which YHVH, the god of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live upon the earth.
2 You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree;
3 you shall tear down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Ashe'rim with fire; you shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy their name out of that place.
The nations "overcome" are the lower levels of consciousness which we have left behind. We are to truly leave them behind, (destroy them) so that we do not backslide.
Places in the Bible refer to levels of consciousness. So the place of worship "that YHVH shall choose," is the level of consciousness which can communicate with the spiritual. It is the highest level to which we have attained. Ideally, it is the illuminated consciousness, soul consciousness, but until we reach it (when it is still too far away), we must worship wherever we are.
4 You shall not do so to YHVH, your god,
5 But you shall seek the place which YHVH, your god, will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there; thither you shall go,
6 and thither you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering that you present, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock;
7 and there you shall eat before YHVH, your god, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which YHVH, your god, has blessed you.
8 You shall not do according to all that we are doing here this day, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes;
9 for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which YHVH, your god, gives you.
10 But when you go over the Jordan, and live in the land which YHVH, your god, gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you live in safety,
11 then to the place which YHVH, your god, will choose, to make his name dwell there, thither you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering that you present, and all your votive offerings which you vow to YHVH.
12 And you shall rejoice before YHVH, your god, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.
13 Take heed that you do not offer your burnt offerings at every place that you see;
14 but at the place which YHVH will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.
15 "However, you may slaughter and eat flesh within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of YHVH, your god, which he has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the hart.
16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.
Flesh refers to the material. Blood represents the spiritual. We are dual creatures, both material and spiritual. We are to experience both. But, the spiritual should be kept elevated from the material. The material must be elevated to the spiritual. The spiritual should not be brought down to the material.
17 You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herd or of your flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the offering that you present;
18 but you shall eat them before YHVH, your god, in the place which YHVH, your god, will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, and the Levite who is within your towns; and you shall rejoice before YHVH, your god, in all that you undertake.
19 Take heed that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
20 "When YHVH, your god, enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat flesh,' because you crave flesh, you may eat as much flesh as you desire.