20 “When the Lord your God (A)enlarges your territory, (B)as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire. 21 If (C)the place that the Lord your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, (D)then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire. 22 Just (E)as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. (F)The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it. 23 (G)Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, (H)for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. 24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water. 25 You shall not eat it, (I)that all may go well with you and with your children after you, (J)when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord. 26 But the (K)holy things that are due from you, and (L)your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to (M)the place that the Lord will choose, 27 and (N)offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, but the flesh you may eat. 28 Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, (O)that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

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20 When the Lord your God has enlarged your territory(A) as he promised(B) you, and you crave meat(C) and say, “I would like some meat,” then you may eat as much of it as you want. 21 If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his Name(D) is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.(E) 22 Eat them as you would gazelle or deer.(F) Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat. 23 But be sure you do not eat the blood,(G) because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.(H) 24 You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.(I) 25 Do not eat it, so that it may go well(J) with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right(K) in the eyes of the Lord.

26 But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give,(L) and go to the place the Lord will choose. 27 Present your burnt offerings(M) on the altar of the Lord your God, both the meat and the blood. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat(N) the meat. 28 Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well(O) with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

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