Deuteronomy 12:22
What does Deuteronomy 12:22 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 12:22 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862only, as the roe and the hart is eaten, so dost thou eat it; the unclean and the clean doth alike eat it.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them: both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean alike may eat of them.
Context
v.21If the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Jehovah hath given thee, as I have commanded thee; and thou mayest eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul.
v.22This passage
v.23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 12:15
Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
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