Deuteronomy 12:15-19
World English Bible
15 Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer. 16 Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water. 17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand; 18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to. 19 Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
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Deuteronomy 12:15-19
International Standard Version
Instructions Pertaining to Food
15 “You may slaughter and eat as much meat as you desire,[a] according to the blessing of the Lord your God, when he provides for you in all your cities.[b] Both ritually unqualified and qualified people[c] may eat it as they would gazelle and deer. 16 However, you are not to consume the blood;[d] instead, you are to pour it out on the ground as you would water.
17 “You won’t be allowed to eat your tithe of grain, new wine, or oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, your voluntary offerings that you pledged, your free-will offerings, or the works of your hands in your own cities. 18 You’ll eat only in the presence of the Lord your God at the place that he[e] will choose—you, your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the descendant of Levi who is in your cities.[f] Rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God in everything you undertake.[g] 19 Be careful not to forget the descendant of Levi while you live[h] in the land.
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- Deuteronomy 12:15 Lit. with all the desire of your soul
- Deuteronomy 12:15 Lit. gates
- Deuteronomy 12:15 Lit. unclean and clean; and so throughout the book
- Deuteronomy 12:16 Cf. Acts 15:20, 29
- Deuteronomy 12:18 Lit. that the Lord your God
- Deuteronomy 12:18 Lit. gates
- Deuteronomy 12:18 Lit. in every work of your hand
- Deuteronomy 12:19 Lit. all your days in the land
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