Deuteronomy 12 has a recurring theme. Worship where the Lord God will choose. The people are to destroy all the sacred sites of the previous nations. They are to bring their religious tithes and sacrifices to one place. They are not to offer burnt offerings except at that place. They can eat meat anywhere, but offerings to God must take place in the one spot. Even if the territory of the Israelites increases, they must still come to the one spot to offer to God.
12 concludes with a warning not to chase after the religious rituals of the nations they are dispossessing from the land.
12 also stresses several times that the blood is the life, it MUST not be consumed but poured out on the ground.
Romans 10 continues Paul's arguments from chapter 9, that the Jews are at fault for not following God's gift of the Son. Paul knows they "have a zeal" for God, but do not recognize Christ in the role as the completer of the law of Moses. It is not about doing the 'right thing' that brings faith, but rather confessing Jesus as Lord and believing in the heart that God raised him from the dead. He concludes with the lament that God's Word of Christ has gone out to the Israelites, but they have not listened.
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