Deuteronomy 12:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

When the LORD your God enlarges your border, as He has promised you, and you say, I want to eat meat, because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, whatever your soul desires.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    When 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.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy borr, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Yf (when the Lorde thi God hath enlarged thi costes as he hath promysed the) thou saye: I will eate flesh, because thi soule longeth to eate flesh: then thou shalt eate flesh, what soeuer thi soule lusteth.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But whan the LORDE thy God shal enlarge thy bordes of thy londe (as he hath promysed the) and thou saye: I wil eate flesh (for so moch as thy soule longeth to eate flesh) then eate flesh acordinge to all the desyre of thy soule.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    When the Lorde thy God shall enlarge thy border, as hee hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I wil eate flesh, (because thine heart longeth to eate flesh) thou maiest eate flesh, whatsoeuer thine heart desireth.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    If when the Lorde thy God shall enlarge thy border as he hath promised thee, thou say, I will eate flesh (because thy soule longeth to eate fleshe) thou mayest eate fleshe whatsoeuer thy soule lusteth.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your soul.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `When Jehovah thy God doth enlarge thy border, as He hath spoken to thee, and thou hast said, Let me eat flesh -- for thy soul desireth to eat flesh -- of all the desire of thy soul thou dost eat flesh.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, "I want to eat meat," because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The Sanctity of Blood When the LORD your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say,“I want to eat meat just as I please,” you may do so as you wish.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:8 : 8 And if the LORD your God enlarges your border, as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers;
  • Deut 11:24 : 24 Every place where the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall be your territory.
  • Gen 28:14 : 14 And your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
  • Exod 34:24 : 24 For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall anyone desire your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
  • Num 11:4 : 4 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell to lusting, and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us meat to eat?
  • Num 11:20 : 20 But even a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?
  • Num 11:34 : 34 And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted.
  • Gen 31:30 : 30 And now, though you would certainly be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, yet why have you stolen my gods?
  • Exod 23:31 : 31 And I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
  • Deut 12:15 : 15 Yet you may slaughter and eat flesh inside all your gates, whatever your soul desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.
  • 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 And King David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
  • 2 Sam 23:15 : 15 And David longed and said, Oh that one would give me a drink of the water from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
  • 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him what he requested.
  • Ps 63:1 : 1 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where there is no water;
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
  • Ps 107:9 : 9 For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.
  • Ps 119:20 : 20 My soul breaks with longing for Your judgments at all times.
  • Ps 119:40 : 40 Behold, I long for Your precepts; revive me in Your righteousness.
  • Ps 119:174 : 174 I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
  • 2 Cor 9:14 : 14 And by their prayer for you, who long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.
  • Phil 2:26 : 26 For he longed for you all, and was distressed, because you had heard that he was sick.
  • Gen 15:18-21 : 18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

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    21If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat in your gates whatever your soul desires.

    22Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them.

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    14But in the place which the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

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    16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

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    25Then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.

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    10When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.

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    72%

    7And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all to which you put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

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    53And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you:

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    21Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.

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    2 verses
    70%

    18You 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.

    19And you shall eat fat till you are full, and drink blood till you are drunk, at my sacrificial feast which I have prepared for you.

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    18And the flesh of them shall be yours, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are yours.

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  • Lev 7:24-25
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    24And the fat of an animal that dies of itself, and the fat of an animal that is torn by beasts, may be used for any other purpose: but you shall not eat of it.

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    19And the land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

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