Deuteronomy 15:22

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You may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Deut 12:21-22 : 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.

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  • Deut 12:21-23
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    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.

    22Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

    23However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!

  • Deut 12:15-16
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    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 15:23
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    23However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

  • Deut 14:3-8
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    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).

    8Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

  • Deut 14:20-21
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    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 11:2-8
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    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 15:20-21
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    20You and your household must eat them annually before the LORD your God in the place he chooses.

    21If they have any kind of blemish– lameness, blindness, or anything else– you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the LORD your God.

  • Lev 17:15
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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 11:39-40
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    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 22:6-8
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    6the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

    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.

  • Lev 7:19-21
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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.

    20The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD while his uncleanness persists will be cut off from his people.

    21When a person touches anything unclean(whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.’”

  • Lev 11:47
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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.’”

  • Deut 14:11
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    11All ritually clean birds you may eat.

  • Lev 11:25-26
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    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.

  • Exod 22:31
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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.

  • Lev 7:24
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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.

  • Exod 12:9
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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.

  • Deut 16:7
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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.

  • Num 18:10
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    10You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.

  • Isa 5:17
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    17Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

  • Lev 11:34-35
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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.

    35Anything their carcass may fall on will become unclean. An oven or small stove must be smashed to pieces; they are unclean, and they will stay unclean to you.

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    46It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

  • Lev 17:13
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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,

  • Lev 11:28
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    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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    11If what is vowed is an unclean animal from which an offering must not be presented to the LORD, then he must stand the animal before the priest,

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    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.

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    31The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.