Deuteronomy 12:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ “When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I am going to eat some meat,’ because you wish to eat meat, you may eat meat whenever you have the desire.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as He promised you, and you say, I will eat flesh, because you crave flesh, you may eat flesh whenever you desire.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Once the LORD your God has enlarged your territory, as he promised you, and you think to yourself, I’d like to eat some meat (because you have the desire to do so), feel free to do so whenever you want.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ When the Lord your God will have enlarged your borders, just as he has spoken to you, and when you would eat the flesh that your soul desires,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ When the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he hath spoken to thee, and thou wilt eat the flesh that thy soul desireth:

Deuteronomy 12:20 Cross References

Genesis 28:14

and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your offspring.

Genesis 31:30

Even though you had to go because you longed greatly for your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”

2 Samuel 13:39

And the heart of the king went out, yearning for Absalom, for he was now consoled over the death of Amnon.

2 Samuel 23:15

David said longingly, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory and that your hand might be with me and that you would keep me from hurt and harm!” And God granted what he asked.

Psalm 107:9

For he satisfies the thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things.

Psalm 119:174

I long for your salvation, O Lord, and your law is my delight.

Psalm 119:20

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

Psalm 119:40

See, I have longed for your precepts; in your righteousness be gracious to me.

Psalm 63:1

O God, you are my God; I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 84:2

My soul longs, indeed it faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Exodus 23:31

I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will hand over to you the inhabitants of the land, and you shall drive them out before you.

Exodus 34:24

For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

Numbers 11:20

but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you—because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ”

Numbers 11:34

So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.

Numbers 11:4

The camp followers with them had a strong craving, and the Israelites also wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

2 Corinthians 9:14

while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that he has given you.

Deuteronomy 11:24

Every place on which you set foot shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the River Euphrates, to the Western Sea.

Deuteronomy 12:15

“Yet whenever you desire you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, according to the blessing that the Lord your God has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as they would of gazelle or deer.

Deuteronomy 12:21

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 19:8

“If the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he swore to your ancestors—and he will give you all the land that he promised your ancestors to give you,

Philippians 1:8

For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the tender affection of Christ Jesus.

Philippians 2:26

for he has been longing for all of you and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.