Verse 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.

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.”