Deuteronomy 12:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.

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  • Deut 14:5 : 5 The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.
  • Deut 14:26 : 26 And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;
  • Deut 15:22-23 : 22 It may be used for food in your houses: the unclean and the clean may take of it, as of the gazelle and the roe. 23 Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
  • Lev 17:3-5 : 3 If any man of Israel puts to death an ox or a lamb or a goat, in or outside the tent-circle; 4 And has not taken it to the door of the Tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lord's House, its blood will be on him, for he has taken life, and he will be cut off from among his people: 5 So that the children of Israel may take to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting and to the priest, the offerings which they have put to death in the open country, and that they may make their peace-offerings to the Lord.
  • Deut 12:20-23 : 20 When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for. 21 If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living. 22 It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it. 23 But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 89%

    20 When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

    21 If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.

    22 It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.

    23 But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

  • 89%

    20 But year by year you and all your house are to take a meal of it before the Lord, in the place of his selection.

    21 But if it has any mark on it, if it is blind or has damaged legs, or if there is anything wrong with it, it may not be offered to the Lord your God.

    22 It may be used for food in your houses: the unclean and the clean may take of it, as of the gazelle and the roe.

    23 Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

  • 80%

    20 But all clean birds you may take.

    21 You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

  • Deut 14:3-7
    5 verses
    78%

    3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

    4 These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

    5 The hart, the gazelle, and the roe, the mountain goat and the pygarg and the antelope and the mountain sheep.

    6 Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.

    7 But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.

  • Lev 11:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2 Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth.

    3 You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again.

    4 But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you.

  • 77%

    16 But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

    17 In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;

    18 But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

  • Lev 7:24-26
    3 verses
    75%

    24 And the fat of that which comes to a natural death, and the fat of that which is attacked by beasts, may be used for other purposes, but not in any way for food.

    25 For anyone who takes as food the fat of any beast of which men make an offering by fire to the Lord, will be cut off from his people.

    26 And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

  • 11 All clean birds may be used for food.

  • 26 And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

  • 14 But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to do.

  • 27 Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.

  • 7 It is to be cooked and taken as food in the place marked out by the Lord: and in the morning you are to go back to your tents.

  • 7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

  • Lev 17:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13 And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth.

    14 For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.

    15 And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a natural end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean.

  • 73%

    18 The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.

    19 You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.

  • Gen 9:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

    4 But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

  • 8 That which comes to a natural death, or is attacked by beasts, he may not take as food, for it will make him unclean: I am the Lord.

  • 7 And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

  • 47 Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.

  • 40 And he who makes use of any part of its body for food is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening; and anyone taking away its body is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.

  • Lev 11:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.

    9 These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food.

  • 9 Do not take it uncooked or cooked with boiling water, but let it be cooked in the oven; its head with its legs and its inside parts.

  • 25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 3 If any man of Israel puts to death an ox or a lamb or a goat, in or outside the tent-circle;

  • 31 You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.

  • 9 And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.

  • 17 Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

  • 19 And flesh touched by any unclean thing may not be taken for food: it is to be burned with fire; and as for the flesh of the peace-offerings, everyone who is clean may take it as food: