Deuteronomy 12:20

American Standard Version (1901)

When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul.

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  • Deut 19:8 : 8 And if Jehovah thy God enlarge thy border, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
  • Deut 11:24 : 24 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border.
  • Gen 28:14 : 14 and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
  • Exod 34:24 : 24 For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in the year.
  • Num 11:4 : 4 And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
  • Num 11:20 : 20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected Jehovah who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
  • Num 11:34 : 34 And the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted.
  • Gen 31:30 : 30 And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet] wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
  • Exod 23:31 : 31 And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
  • Deut 12:15 : 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.
  • 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
  • 2 Sam 23:15 : 15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!
  • 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it be not to my sorrow! And God granted him that which he requested.
  • Ps 63:1 : 1 [A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah]. O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
  • Ps 107:9 : 9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, And the hungry soul he filleth with good.
  • Ps 119:20 : 20 My soul breaketh for the longing That it hath unto thine ordinances at all times.
  • Ps 119:40 : 40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Quicken me in thy righteousness.
  • Ps 119:174 : 174 I have longed for thy salvation, O Jehovah; And thy law is my delight.
  • 2 Cor 9:14 : 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
  • Phil 2:26 : 26 since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:
  • Gen 15:18-21 : 18 In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

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    21 If 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.

    22 Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.

    23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.

  • Deut 12:14-19
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    14 but in the place which Jehovah shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

    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.

    16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

    17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy grain, or of thy new wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of thy hand;

    18 but thou shalt eat them before Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

    19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest in thy land.

  • Deut 14:25-26
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    25 then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose:

    26 and thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy household.

  • Lev 25:7
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    7 And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.

  • Deut 12:25-27
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    25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

    26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which Jehovah shall choose:

    27 and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah thy God; and thou shalt eat the flesh.

  • Deut 8:10
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    10 And thou shalt eat and be full, and thou shalt bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

  • Deut 15:20
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    20 Thou shalt eat it before Jehovah thy God year by year in the place which Jehovah shall choose, thou and thy household.

  • Deut 12:7
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    7 and there ye shall eat before Jehovah your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee.

  • Deut 19:8
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    8 And if Jehovah thy God enlarge thy border, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

  • Deut 28:53
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    53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee.

  • Jer 7:21
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    21 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.

  • Deut 8:12-13
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    12 lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

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    7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

  • Lev 26:29
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    29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

  • Num 11:18
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    18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore Jehovah will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

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    20 Of all clean birds ye may eat.

    21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

  • Deut 28:55
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    55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
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    18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

    19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

  • Num 18:18
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    18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine.

  • Lev 11:2-3
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    2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

    3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, [and] cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.

  • Deut 30:9
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    9 And Jehovah thy God will make thee plenteous in all the work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, for good: for Jehovah will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers;

  • Deut 28:11
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    11 And Jehovah will make thee plenteous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

  • Lev 7:24-25
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    69%

    24 And the fat of that which dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of beasts, may be used for any other service; but ye shall in no wise eat of it.

    25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.

  • Deut 11:15
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    15 And I will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be full.

  • Exod 34:24
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    24 For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in the year.

  • Deut 14:6
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    6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof cloven in two, [and] cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.

  • Lev 25:19
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    19 And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

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    7 and thou shalt sacrifice peace-offerings, and shalt eat there; and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God.

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    13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

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    29 and the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.

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    25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am Jehovah your God.

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