Deuteronomy 12:20

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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.

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  • Deut 19:8 : 8 And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers;
  • Deut 11:24 : 24 Every place where you put your foot will be yours: from the waste land and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates as far as the Great Sea, will be the limits of your land.
  • Gen 28:14 : 14 Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
  • Exod 34:24 : 24 For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.
  • Num 11:4 : 4 And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?
  • Num 11:20 : 20 But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?
  • Num 11:34 : 34 So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah; because there they put in the earth the bodies of the people who had given way to their desires.
  • Gen 31:30 : 30 And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?
  • Exod 23:31 : 31 I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.
  • Deut 12:15 : 15 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.
  • 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 And the heart of David was wasted with desire for Absalom: for he was comforted for the death of Amnon.
  • 2 Sam 23:15 : 15 And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town!
  • 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.
  • Ps 63:1 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.
  • Ps 107:9 : 9 He gives its desire to the unresting soul, so that it is full of good things.
  • Ps 119:20 : 20 My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.
  • Ps 119:40 : 40 See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.
  • Ps 119:174 : 174 All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.
  • 2 Cor 9:14 : 14 While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you.
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.
  • Phil 2:26 : 26 Because his heart was with you all, and he was greatly troubled because you had news that he was ill:
  • Gen 15:18-21 : 18 In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenite, 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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  • Deut 12:21-23
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    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.

  • Deut 12:14-19
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    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.

    15 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.

    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.

    19 See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.

  • Deut 14:25-26
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    25 Then let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand, go to the place marked out by the Lord your God for himself;

    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;

  • Lev 25:7
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    7 And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

  • Deut 12:25-27
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    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.

    26 But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord:

    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.

  • Deut 8:10
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    10 And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

  • Deut 15:20
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    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.

  • Deut 12:7
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    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.

  • Deut 19:8
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    8 And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers;

  • Deut 28:53
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    53 And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.

  • Jer 7:21
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    21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.

  • Deut 8:12-13
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    12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

    13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;

  • Deut 16:7
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    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.

  • Lev 26:29
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    29 Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

  • Num 11:18
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    18 And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food;

  • Deut 14:20-21
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    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 28:55
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    55 And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
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    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.

  • Num 18:18
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    18 Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours.

  • Lev 11:2-3
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    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.

  • Deut 30:9
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    9 And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:

  • Deut 28:11
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    11 And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

  • Lev 7:24-25
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    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.

  • Deut 11:15
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    15 And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.

  • Exod 34:24
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    24 For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.

  • Deut 14:6
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    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.

  • Lev 25:19
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    19 And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.

  • Deut 27:7
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    7 And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God.

  • Num 11:13
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    13 Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.

  • Isa 5:17
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    17 Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

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    29 When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

  • 1 Sam 2:16
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    16 And if the man said to him, First let the fat be burned, then take as much as you will; then the servant would say, No, you are to give it to me now, or I will take it by force.

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    11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

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    29 And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

  • Lev 19:25
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    25 But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.