Deuteronomy 12:22

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Just as the gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat this; both the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.

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  • Deut 12:15-16 : 15 However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that He has given you. Both the unclean and the clean may eat it, as they would gazelle or deer. 16 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

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  • Deut 15:22-23
    2 verses
    93%

    22Eat it within your gates. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or deer.

    23However, you must not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Deut 12:15-16
    2 verses
    89%

    15However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that He has given you. Both the unclean and the clean may eat it, as they would gazelle or deer.

    16But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Deut 14:3-7
    5 verses
    80%

    3You shall not eat any detestable thing.

    4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

    5the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

    6You may eat any animal that has divided hooves completely split and chews the cud.

    7But of those that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves; they are unclean for you.

  • Deut 14:19-21
    3 verses
    79%

    19Every swarming winged creature is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

    20You may eat any clean flying creature.

    21You shall not eat anything that dies naturally. You may give it to the foreigner living in your towns so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people set apart for the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Lev 11:2-8
    7 verses
    78%

    2Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are the living creatures that you may eat among all the animals on the earth:

    3You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof, one completely split, and that chews the cud.

    4But among those that chew the cud or have a divided hoof, you must not eat the camel. Though it chews the cud, it does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.

    5The hyrax, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.

    6The hare, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean to you.

    7And the pig, though it has a divided hoof, completely split, it does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you.

    8You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

  • Deut 12:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20When the Lord your God enlarges your territory as He has promised, and you say, 'I want to eat meat,' because you desire to eat it, you may eat it whenever you desire.

    21If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, you may slaughter from your herds and flocks that the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and eat within your gates as much as you desire.

  • Deut 12:23-24
    2 verses
    77%

    23But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

    24You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Lev 11:39-40
    2 verses
    75%

    39If any animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.

    40Anyone who eats from its carcass must wash their clothes and will be unclean until the evening. Anyone who carries its carcass must wash their clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 22:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7When the sun has set, he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy things, for they are his food.

    8He must not eat anything that has died naturally or been torn by wild animals, making himself unclean by it. I am the LORD.

  • Deut 14:11
    75%

    11You may eat any clean bird.

  • Lev 17:15
    75%

    15Anyone, whether native or foreigner, who eats an animal that died naturally or was torn by wild animals must wash their clothes, bathe in water, and they will remain unclean until evening. Then they will be clean.

  • Lev 11:25-28
    4 verses
    74%

    25Anyone who picks up their carcasses must wash their clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

    26Every animal that has a divided hoof but does not chew the cud is unclean to you; whoever touches them will become unclean.

    27All animals that walk on their paws among the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until the evening.

    28Anyone who picks up their carcasses must wash their clothes and will be unclean until the evening. These animals are unclean to you.

  • Lev 11:47
    74%

    47You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18You shall eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all fattened animals from Bashan.

    19You will eat fat until you are satisfied and drink blood until you are drunk, from the sacrifice that I have prepared for you.

  • Isa 5:17
    74%

    17Then lambs will graze as in their own pasture, and strangers will eat in the ruins of the rich.

  • Lev 7:24
    73%

    24The fat of an animal found dead and the fat of an animal torn by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose but must not be eaten.

  • Lev 11:22
    73%

    22Of them you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.

  • Exod 12:9
    73%

    9Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but only roasted over the fire—its head, legs, and inner parts.

  • Lev 7:19
    72%

    19Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten. It must be burned with fire. Only those who are clean may eat the meat.

  • Lev 17:13
    72%

    13Any Israelite or foreigner living among you who hunts and catches a wild animal or bird that may be eaten must drain its blood and cover it with earth.

  • Lev 11:34
    72%

    34Any food that could be eaten but has water from such a pot on it will be unclean, and any drink that could be drunk from such a pot will be unclean.

  • Deut 12:27
    72%

    27Offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat.

  • Deut 16:7
    72%

    7Roast it and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses. Then in the morning, return to your tents.

  • Gen 9:3
    72%

    3Every living creature that moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the plants, I now give you everything.

  • Ezek 34:19
    71%

    19Must My flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

  • Lev 7:26
    71%

    26And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

  • Lev 25:7
    71%

    7as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its produce may be used as food.