Deuteronomy 12:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`When Jehovah thy God doth enlarge thy border, as He hath spoken to thee, and thou hast said, Let me eat flesh -- for thy soul desireth to eat flesh -- of all the desire of thy soul thou dost eat flesh.

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  • Deut 19:8 : 8 `And if Jehovah thy God doth enlarge thy border, as He hath sworn to thy fathers, and hath given to thee all the land which He hath spoken to give to thy fathers --
  • Deut 11:24 : 24 every place on which the sole of your foot treadeth is yours; from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Phrat, even unto the farther sea is your border;
  • Gen 28:14 : 14 and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.
  • Exod 34:24 : 24 for I dispossess nations from before thee, and have enlarged thy border, and no man doth desire thy land in thy going up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in a year.
  • Num 11:4 : 4 And the rabble who `are' in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, `Who doth give us flesh?
  • Num 11:20 : 20 unto a month of days, till that it come out from your nostrils, and it hath become to you an abomination; because that ye have loathed Jehovah, who `is' in your midst, and weep before Him, saying, Why is this? -- we have come out of Egypt!'
  • Num 11:34 : 34 and `one' calleth the name of that place Kibroth-Hattaavah, for there they have buried the people who lust.
  • Gen 31:30 : 30 `And now, thou hast certainly gone, because thou hast been very desirous for the house of thy father; why hast thou stolen my gods?'
  • Exod 23:31 : 31 `And I have set thy border from the Red Sea, even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I give into your hand the inhabitants of the land, and thou hast cast them out from before thee;
  • Deut 12:15 : 15 `Only, with all the desire of thy soul thou dost sacrifice, and hast eaten flesh according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which He hath given to thee, in all thy gates; the unclean and the clean do eat it, as of the roe, and as of the hart.
  • 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 and `the soul of' king David determineth to go out unto Absalom, for he hath been comforted for Amnon, for `he is' dead.
  • 2 Sam 23:15 : 15 and David longeth and saith, `Who doth give me a drink of the water of the well of Beth-Lehem, which `is' by the gate?'
  • 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 And Jabez calleth to the God of Israel, saying, `If blessing Thou dost bless me, then Thou hast made great my border, and Thy hand hath been with me, and Thou hast kept `me' from evil -- not to grieve me;' and God bringeth in that which he asked.
  • Ps 63:1 : 1 A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou `art' my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,
  • Ps 107:9 : 9 For He hath satisfied a longing soul, And a hungry soul hath filled `with' goodness.
  • Ps 119:20 : 20 Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times.
  • Ps 119:40 : 40 Lo, I have longed for Thy precepts, In Thy righteousness quicken Thou me,
  • Ps 119:174 : 174 I have longed for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy law `is' my delight.
  • 2 Cor 9:14 : 14 and by their supplication in your behalf, longing after you because of the exceeding grace of God upon you;
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,
  • Phil 2:26 : 26 seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,
  • Gen 15:18-21 : 18 In that day hath Jehovah made with Abram a covenant, saying, `To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Phrat, 19 with the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.'

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    21`When the place is far from thee which Jehovah thy God doth choose to put His name there, then thou hast sacrificed of thy herd and of thy flock which Jehovah hath given to thee, as I have commanded thee, and hast eaten within thy gates, of all the desire of thy soul;

    22only, as the roe and the hart is eaten, so dost thou eat it; the unclean and the clean doth alike eat it.

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  • Deut 12:14-19
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    14except in the place which Jehovah doth choose in one of thy tribes, there thou dost cause thy burnt-offerings to ascend, and there thou dost do all that which I am commanding thee.

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    16`Only, the blood ye do not eat -- on the earth thou dost pour it as water;

    17thou art not able to eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, and of thy new wine, and thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock, and any of thy vows which thou vowest, and thy free-will offerings, and heave-offering of thy hand;

    18but before Jehovah thy God thou dost eat it, in the place which Jehovah thy God doth fix on, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite who `is' within thy gates, and thou hast rejoiced before Jehovah thy God in every putting forth of thy hand;

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  • Deut 12:25-27
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    25thou dost not eat it, in order that it may be well with thee, and with thy sons after thee, when thou dost that which `is' right in the eyes of Jehovah.

    26`Only, thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou dost take up, and hast gone in unto the place which Jehovah doth choose,

    27and thou hast made thy burnt-offerings -- the flesh and the blood -- on the altar of Jehovah thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices is poured out by the altar of Jehovah thy God, and the flesh thou dost eat.

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    55against giving to one of them of the flesh of his sons whom he eateth, because he hath nothing left to him, in the siege, and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee in all thy gates.

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    18and their flesh is thine, as the breast of the wave-offering, and as the right leg, it is thine;

  • Lev 11:2-3
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    2`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, This `is' the beast which ye do eat out of all the beasts which `are' on the earth:

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  • Deut 30:9
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  • Lev 7:24-25
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    24and the fat of a carcase, and the fat of a torn thing is prepared for any work, but ye do certainly not eat it;

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    15and I have given herbs in thy field for thy cattle, and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied.

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    24for I dispossess nations from before thee, and have enlarged thy border, and no man doth desire thy land in thy going up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in a year.

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    19and the land hath given its fruit, and ye have eaten to satiety, and have dwelt confidently on it.

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    29and come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who `are' within thy gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.

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    25And in the fifth year ye do eat its fruit -- to add to you its increase; I `am' Jehovah your God.