KJV King James Version
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat [of] them alike.
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Deuteronomy 12:22
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat [of] them alike.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
WEB World English Bible
Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
ASV American Standard Version
Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
only, as the roe and the hart is eaten, so dost thou eat it; the unclean and the clean doth alike eat it.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 12
19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat [of] them alike.
23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do [that which is] right in the sight of the LORD.
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אַ֗ךְH389 · akhsurelyכַּאֲשֶׁ֨רH834 · a.sherwhichיֵאָכֵ֤לH398 · a.khalto eatאֶֽת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַצְּבִי֙H6643 · tse.vibeautyוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָ֣אַיָּ֔לH354 · ay.yaldeerכֵּ֖ןH3651 · kenrightתֹּאכְלֶ֑נּוּH398 · a.khalto eatהַטָּמֵא֙H2931 · ta.meuncleanוְהַטָּה֔וֹרH2889 · ta.horpureיַחְדָּ֖וH3162 · ya.chadunitednessיֹאכְלֶֽנּוּ׃H398 · a.khalto eat
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