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.^{(A) 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. ²² Indeed, just as gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.^{(B) 23} Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.^{(C) 24} Do not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water. ²⁵ Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.^{(D) 26} But the sacred donations that are due from you and your votive gifts you shall bring to the place that the Lord will choose.^{(E) 27} You shall present your burnt offerings, both the meat and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your other sacrifices shall be poured out beside^[a] the altar of the Lord your God, but the meat you may eat.

²⁸ “Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.^(F)