Deuteronomy 12:22
Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.
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- Deut 12:15-16 : 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.
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- Deut 15:22-232 verses93%
22You may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.
23However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.
- Deut 12:15-162 verses89%
15Regulations 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.
16However, you must not eat blood– pour it out on the ground like water.
- Deut 14:3-75 verses80%
3You must not eat any forbidden thing.
4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,
5the ibex, the gazelle, the deer, the wild goat, the antelope, the wild oryx, and the mountain sheep.
6You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.
7However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger.(Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).
- Deut 14:19-213 verses79%
19And any swarming winged thing is impure to you– they may not be eaten.
20You may eat any clean winged creature.
21You 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.
- Lev 11:2-87 verses78%
2“Tell the Israelites:‘This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.
3You may eat any among the animals that has a divided hoof(the hooves are completely split in two) and that also chews the cud.
4However, you must not eat these from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves: The camel is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
5The rock badger is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
6The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.
7The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided(the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does not chew the cud.
8You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
- Deut 12:20-212 verses77%
20The 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.
21If 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.
- Deut 12:23-242 verses77%
23However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!
24You must not eat it! You must pour it out on the ground like water.
- Lev 11:39-402 verses75%
39Edible Land Quadrupeds“‘Now if an animal that you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening.
40One who eats from its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening, and whoever carries its carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.
- Lev 22:7-82 verses75%
7When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.
8He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the LORD.
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11All ritually clean birds you may eat.
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15Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.
- Lev 11:25-284 verses74%
25and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.
26Inedible Land Quadrupeds“‘All animals that divide the hoof but it is not completely split in two and do not chew the cud are unclean to you; anyone who touches them becomes unclean.
27All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,
28and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.
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47to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”
- Ezek 39:18-192 verses74%
18You 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.
19You 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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17Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.
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24Moreover, 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.
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22These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.
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9Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.
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31“You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.
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19The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.
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13“‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,
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34Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.
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27You 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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7You 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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3You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
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19As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!
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26And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.
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7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.