Deuteronomy 12:20

New English Translation

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.

Cross References

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants.

Genesis 31:30

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

2 Samuel 13:39

The king longed to go to Absalom, for he had since been consoled over the death of Amnon.

2 Samuel 23:15

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 Chronicles 4:10

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.

Psalm 107:9

For he has satisfied those who thirst, and those who hunger he has filled with food.

Psalm 119:174

I long for your deliverance, O Lord; I find delight in your law.

Psalm 119:20

I desperately long to know your regulations at all times.

Psalm 119:40

Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance! ו (Vav)

Psalm 63:1

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.

Psalm 84:2

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.

Exodus 23:31

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.

Exodus 34:24

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.

Numbers 11:20

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?”’”

Numbers 11:34

So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that craved different food.

Numbers 11:4

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!

2 Corinthians 9:14

And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you.

Deuteronomy 11:24

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.

Deuteronomy 12:15

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.

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish.

Deuteronomy 19:8

If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,

Philippians 1:8

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

Philippians 2:26

Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill.