If the place where the Lord your God will choose to put his name is too far from you, and you slaughter as I have commanded you any of your herd or flock that the Lord has given you, then you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.
Deuteronomy 12:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Indeed, just as gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Just as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so you may eat of it [but not offer it]; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it. American Standard Version (1901) Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike. Common English Bible But be sure to eat it as if it were gazelle or deer. People who are polluted and people who are purified can feast on it together. Catholic Public Domain Version Just as the roe deer and the stag may be eaten, so also may you eat these: you may eat both the clean and the unclean alike. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them: both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike. |
If the place where the Lord your God will choose to put his name is too far from you, and you slaughter as I have commanded you any of your herd or flock that the Lord has given you, then you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
within your towns you may eat it, the unclean and the clean alike, as you would a gazelle or deer.