Deuteronomy 12:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

Just 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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  • Deut 12:15-16 : 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. 16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

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  • Deut 15:22-23
    2 verses
    93%

    22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.

    23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.

  • Deut 12:15-16
    2 verses
    89%

    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.

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

  • Deut 14:3-7
    5 verses
    80%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

    4 These are the animals which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

    5 The deer, and the roe deer, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the antelope, and the wild ox, and the mountain sheep.

    6 And every animal that parts the hoof, and has a split hoof, and chews the cud among the animals, that you shall eat.

    7 Nevertheless, these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that have the divided hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof; therefore, they are unclean to you.

  • Deut 14:19-21
    3 verses
    79%

    19 And every creeping thing that flies is unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

    20 But of all clean birds you may eat.

    21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give it to the stranger that is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to an alien: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

  • Lev 11:2-8
    7 verses
    78%

    2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the animals which you shall eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

    3 Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you shall eat.

    4 Nevertheless, these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.

    5 And the coney, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.

    6 And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.

    7 And the swine, though it divides the hoof, and is cloven-footed, yet it does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you.

    8 Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcass you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.

  • Deut 12:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20 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.

    21 If 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.

  • Deut 12:23-24
    2 verses
    77%

    23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the meat.

    24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it upon the earth like water.

  • Lev 11:39-40
    2 verses
    75%

    39 And if any beast, of which you may eat, dies; he that touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

    40 And he that eats of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: he also that carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 22:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and afterward may eat of the holy things; because it is his food.

    8 What dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself with it: I am the LORD.

  • Deut 14:11
    75%

    11 Of all clean birds you shall eat.

  • Lev 17:15
    75%

    15 And every soul that eats what died of itself, or what was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then shall he be clean.

  • Lev 11:25-28
    4 verses
    74%

    25 And whoever carries any part of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

    26 The carcasses of every beast which divides the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, are unclean to you: everyone that touches them shall be unclean.

    27 And whatever goes upon its paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all fours, those are unclean to you: whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

    28 And he that carries the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: they are unclean to you.

  • Lev 11:47
    74%

    47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18 You 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.

    19 And 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.

  • Isa 5:17
    74%

    17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

  • Lev 7:24
    73%

    24 And 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.

  • Lev 11:22
    73%

    22 Of these you may eat; the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.

  • Exod 12:9
    73%

    9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs, and its entrails.

  • Exod 22:31
    73%

    31 And you shall be holy men to me; neither shall you eat any meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

  • Lev 7:19
    72%

    19 And the flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and for the other flesh, all who are clean shall eat it.

  • Lev 17:13
    72%

    13 And whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell among you, who hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

  • Lev 11:34
    72%

    34 Of all food which may be eaten, that on which such water comes shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

  • Deut 12:27
    72%

    27 And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God, and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.

  • Deut 16:7
    72%

    7 And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God shall choose: and you shall return in the morning, and go to your tents.

  • Gen 9:3
    72%

    3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; just as the green herbs, I have given you all things.

  • Ezek 34:19
    71%

    19 And as for my flock, they eat what you have trodden with your feet; and they drink what you have fouled with your feet.

  • Lev 7:26
    71%

    26 Moreover, you shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

  • Lev 25:7
    71%

    7 And for your cattle, and for the beasts that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.