Deuteronomy 12:20

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.

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  • Deut 19:8 : 8 If Yahweh 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 whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.
  • Gen 28:14 : 14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
  • Exod 34:24 : 24 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
  • Num 11:4 : 4 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who will give us flesh to eat?
  • Num 11:20 : 20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'"
  • Num 11:34 : 34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
  • Gen 31:30 : 30 Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
  • Exod 23:31 : 31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness 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 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
  • 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 [the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
  • 2 Sam 23:15 : 15 David longed, and said, "Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!"
  • 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow!" God granted him that which he requested.
  • Ps 63:1 : 1 God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
  • Ps 107:9 : 9 For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
  • Ps 119:20 : 20 My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
  • Ps 119:40 : 40 Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW
  • Ps 119:174 : 174 I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
  • 2 Cor 9:14 : 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
  • Phil 2:26 : 26 since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.
  • Gen 15:18-21 : 18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."

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    21If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

    22Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.

    23Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

  • Deut 12:14-19
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    14but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

    15Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

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

    17You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;

    18but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.

    19Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

  • Deut 14:25-26
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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 Yahweh your God shall choose:

    26and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

  • Lev 25:7
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    7For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

  • Deut 12:25-27
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    25You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

    26Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose:

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

  • Deut 8:10
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    10You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.

  • Deut 15:20
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    20You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.

  • Deut 12:7
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    7and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

  • Deut 19:8
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    8If Yahweh 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 28:53
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    53You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

  • Jer 7:21
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    21Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.

  • Deut 8:12-13
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    12lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;

    13and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

  • Deut 16:7
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    7You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.

  • Lev 26:29
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    29You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

  • Num 11:18
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    18"Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat.

  • Deut 14:20-21
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    20Of all clean birds you may eat.

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

  • Deut 28:55
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    55so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
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    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 bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

    19You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

  • Num 18:18
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    18Their flesh shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.

  • Lev 11:2-3
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    2"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

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

  • Deut 30:9
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    9Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;

  • Deut 28:11
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    11Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

  • Lev 7:24-25
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    24The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.

    25For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.

  • Deut 11:15
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    15I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

  • Exod 34:24
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    24For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.

  • Deut 14:6
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    6Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, [and] chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat.

  • Lev 25:19
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    19The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

  • Deut 27:7
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    7and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.

  • Num 11:13
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    13Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'

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    17Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

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    29When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;

  • 1 Sam 2:16
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    16If the man said to him, "Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;" then he would say, "No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force."

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    11and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full;

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    29and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

  • Lev 19:25
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    25In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.