You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.
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You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.
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Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
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Thou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 15:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 12:15-16 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. Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
- Deuteronomy 12:21-22 If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul. Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Thou shalt as well eat them, as the roe…
Thou shalt as well eat them, as the roe buck, and other wild beasts.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou shalt eat it within thy gates,.... Though it…
Thou shalt eat it within thy gates,.... Though it might not be sacrificed, nor eaten as an eucharistic feast at Jerusalem, it might be eaten as common food in their own houses:
the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike; such as were ceremonially unclean, by the touch of a dead body or the like, might partake of it with those that were clean, no difference was to be made:
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as the roebuck and as the hart; which were clean creatures, and used for food, though not for sacrifice; see Deu 12:15.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Unclean. This shews, that they could not be peace-offerings.…
Unclean. This shews, that they could not be peace-offerings. (Menochius) (Chap. xiii. 15.) (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. Thou shalt eat it within thy gates] as…
22. Thou shalt eat it within thy gates] as an ordinary meal without rites; see on Deu_12:21.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 within your gates
within your gates
Here "gates" represents the city or town. AT: "within your community" or "inside your city" (See: Synecdoche)
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the unclean ... persons
A person who is not acceptable for God's purposes is spoken of as if the person were physically unclean. (See: Metaphor)
the clean persons
A person who is acceptable for God's purposes is spoken of as if the person were physically clean. (See: Metaphor)
a gazelle or a deer
These are wild animals with long thin legs that can run quickly. See how you translated these in Deuteronomy 12:15.
you must not eat its blood
"you must not consume its blood." Yahweh did not allow Israelites to consume blood because the blood represented life. (See: Deuteronomy 12:23)
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