Deuteronomy 12:20
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.
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 19:8 : 8 If the LORD your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,
- Deut 11:24 : 24 Every place you set your foot will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River(that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea.
- Gen 28:14 : 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants.
- Exod 34:24 : 24 For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
- Num 11:4 : 4 Complaints about Food Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said,“If only we had meat to eat!
- Num 11:20 : 20 but a whole month, until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, because you have despised the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying,“Why did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”
- Num 11:34 : 34 So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that craved different food.
- Gen 31:30 : 30 Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”
- Exod 23:31 : 31 I will set your boundaries 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 will drive them out before you.
- Deut 12:15 : 15 Regulations for Profane Slaughter On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the LORD your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.
- 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 The king longed to go to Absalom, for he had since been consoled over the death of Amnon.
- 2 Sam 23:15 : 15 David was thirsty and said,“How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate!”
- 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 Jabez called out to the God of Israel,“If only you would greatly bless me and expand my territory! May your hand be with me! Keep me from harm so I might not endure pain!” God answered his prayer.
- Ps 63:1 : 1 A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness. O God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
- Ps 84:2 : 2 I desperately want to be in the courts of the LORD’s temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.
- Ps 107:9 : 9 For he has satisfied those who thirst, and those who hunger he has filled with food.
- Ps 119:20 : 20 I desperately long to know your regulations at all times.
- Ps 119:40 : 40 Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance!
- Ps 119:174 : 174 I long for your deliverance, O LORD; I find delight in your law.
- 2 Cor 9:14 : 14 And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you.
- Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
- Phil 2:26 : 26 Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill.
- Gen 15:18-21 : 18 That day the LORD made a covenant with Abram:“To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River– 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
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- Deut 12:21-233 verses86%
21 If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish.
22 Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.
23 However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!
- Deut 12:14-196 verses81%
14 for you may do so only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribal areas– there you may do everything I am commanding you.
15 Regulations for Profane Slaughter On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the LORD your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.
16 However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.
17 You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.
18 Only in the presence of the LORD your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the LORD your God in all the output of your labor.
19 Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.
- Deut 14:25-262 verses75%
25 you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, and travel to the place the LORD your God chooses for himself.
26 Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and enjoy it.
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7 your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.
- Deut 12:25-273 verses74%
25 You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.
26 Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the LORD will choose.
27 You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.
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10 You will eat your fill and then praise the LORD your God because of the good land he has given you.
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20 You and your household must eat them annually before the LORD your God in the place he chooses.
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7 Both you and your families must feast there before the LORD your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.
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8 If the LORD your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,
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53 You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.
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21 “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says to the people of Judah:‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!
- Deut 8:12-132 verses71%
12 When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,
13 when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,
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7 You must cook and eat it in the place the LORD your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.
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29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
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18 “And say to the people,‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying,“Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.
- Deut 14:20-212 verses71%
20 You may eat any clean winged creature.
21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating(since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
- Ezek 39:18-192 verses70%
18 You will eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth– the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.
19 You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.
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18 And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours.
- Lev 11:2-32 verses70%
2 “Tell the Israelites:‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.
3 You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof(the hooves are completely split in two) and that also chews the cud.
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9 The LORD your God will make the labor of your hands abundantly successful and multiply your children, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the LORD will once more rejoice over you to make you prosperous just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,
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11 The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.
- Lev 7:24-252 verses69%
24 Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it.
25 If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.
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15 I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”
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24 For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
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6 You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.
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19 “‘The land will give its fruit and you may eat until you are satisfied, and you may live securely in the land.
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7 Also you must offer fellowship offerings and eat them there, rejoicing before the LORD your God.
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13 From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me,‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’
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17 Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.
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29 The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.
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16 If the individual said to him,“They should certainly burn the fat away first, then take for yourself whatever you wish,” he would say,“No! Give it now! If not, I’ll take it by force!”
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11 houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant– and you eat your fill,
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29 Then the Levites(because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work you do.
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25 Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. I am the LORD your God.