Deuteronomy 12:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul.

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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 thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 31:30

And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

2 Samuel 13:39

And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

2 Samuel 23:15

And David longed and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem which is by the gate!

1 Chronicles 4:10

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it be not to my sorrow! And God granted him that which he requested.

Psalm 107:9

For he satisfieth the longing soul, And the hungry soul he filleth with good.

Psalm 119:174

I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; And thy law is my delight.

Psalm 119:20

My soul breaketh for the longing That it hath unto thy judgements at all times.

Psalm 119:40

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Quicken me in thy righteousness. ו VAU

Psalm 63:1

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.

Psalm 84:2

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.

Exodus 23:31

And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

Exodus 34:24

For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the LORD thy God three times in the year.

Numbers 11:20

but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have rejected the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

Numbers 11:34

And the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

Numbers 11:4

And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

2 Corinthians 9:14

while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

Deuteronomy 11:24

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 unto the hinder sea shall be your border.

Deuteronomy 12:15

Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul.

Deuteronomy 19:8

And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy border, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

Philippians 1:8

For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

Philippians 2:26

since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick: