Deuteronomy 12:22

Deuteronomy 12:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
• New International Version (NIV)Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them.

Context of Deuteronomy 12:22

20The Lord your God has promised to give you more and more land. When he does that, perhaps you will say, ‘I would like to eat some meat.’ Then you may eat as much meat as you like. 21The place that God chooses as his special home may be far away from you. If it is, you may kill any of the animals that the Lord has given to you. You may eat the meat at your own town, in the way that I have told you. You should eat them in the same way that you eat deer. People who are unclean may eat them, as well as people who are clean. 23But never eat the blood. The blood of an animal gives it life. You must not eat the life together with the meat! 24You must not eat the blood. You must pour it on the ground like water.

Deuteronomy 12:22 word by word

אַ֗ךְ כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר יֵאָכֵ֤ל אֶֽת־הַצְּבִי֙ וְאֶת־הָ֣אַיָּ֔ל כֵּ֖ן תֹּאכְלֶ֑נּוּ הַטָּמֵא֙ וְהַטָּה֔וֹר יַחְדָּ֖ו יֹאכְלֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Even as the roebuckצְבִיtsebîy · gazelleH6643
• and the hartאַיָּל'ayâl · deerH354
• is eatenאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• them: the uncleanטָמֵאţâmê' · uncleanH2931
• and the cleanטָהוֹרţâhôr ţâhôr · pureH2889
• them alikeיָחְדָּוyachad · togetherH3162

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 12:22

• Deuteronomy 12:15But you may kill your animals and eat the meat in any of the towns where you live. When the Lord your God blesses you and he gives you animals, you may eat them as often as you want. It is the same as if you are eating meat from deer. Anyone may eat it. That includes people who are clean and people who are unclean.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 12:22

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-32Verses 5-32 The command to bring ALL the sacrifices to the door of the tabernacle, was now explained with reference to the promised land. As to moral service, then, as now, men might pray and worship every where, as they did in their synagogues. The place which God would choose, is said to be the place where he would put his name. It was to be his habitation, where, as King of Israel, he would be found by all who reverently sought him. Now, under the…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22-2822-28. Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them, &c.--Game when procured in the wilderness had not been required to be brought to the door of the tabernacle. The people were now to be as free in the killing of domestic cattle as of wild animals. The permission to hunt and use venison for food was doubtless a great boon to the Israelites, not only in the wilderness, but on their settlement in Canaan, as the mountainous ranges of…Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• High place
• Lust
• Rest
• Roe
• Atonement, Day of
• Criticism
• Deer
• Exodus, the Book of
• Gazelle
• Genesis

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings