Deuteronomy 15:22

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

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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.
  • Deut 12:21-22 : 21 If 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. 22 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 12:21-23
    3 verses
    93%

    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.

    22Just as the gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat this; both the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.

    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.

  • 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 15:23
    80%

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

  • Deut 14:3-8
    6 verses
    78%

    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.

    8And the pig, though it has divided hooves, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

  • Deut 14:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    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
    75%

    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 15:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20Each year, you and your household shall eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place He will choose.

    21But if there is a defect in it, such as being lame or blind, or having any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.

  • Lev 17:15
    74%

    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 11:39-40
    2 verses
    74%

    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 22:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat any of the holy things unless he has bathed in water.

    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.

  • Lev 7:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

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

    20If anyone who is unclean eats the meat from the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.

    21If anyone touches something unclean, whether it is human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat from the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, they must be cut off from their people.

  • Lev 11:47
    73%

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

  • Deut 14:11
    73%

    11You may eat any clean bird.

  • Lev 11:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Lev 7:24
    71%

    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.

  • Exod 12:9
    71%

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

  • Deut 16:7
    71%

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

  • Num 18:10
    71%

    10'You must eat it in a most holy place. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you.'

  • Isa 5:17
    70%

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

  • Lev 11:34-35
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

    35Anything on which one of their carcasses falls will become unclean; an oven or cooking stove must be broken. They are unclean, and they will remain unclean to you.

  • Exod 12:46
    70%

    46It must be eaten in a single house; you are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break any of its bones.

  • Lev 17:13
    70%

    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 11:28
    70%

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

  • Lev 27:11
    70%

    11If it is an unclean animal that cannot be offered to the LORD as a sacrifice, it must be presented before the priest.

  • Ezek 39:18
    70%

    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.

  • Ezek 44:31
    69%

    31The priests must not eat any bird or animal that has died naturally or been torn by wild beasts.