Deuteronomy 12:22
Good News Translation
Anyone, ritually clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as he would eat the meat of deer or antelope.

New Revised Standard Version
Indeed, just as gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.

Contemporary English Version
It is the same as eating the meat from a deer or a gazelle that you kill when you go hunting. And in this way, anyone who is unclean and unfit for worship can have some of the meat.

New American Bible
You may eat it as you would the gazelle or the deer: the unclean and the clean eating it together.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them: both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them: both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.

Deuteronomy 12:15,16 But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating of flesh delight thee, kill, and eat according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee, in thy cities: whether it be unclean, that is to say, having blemish or defect: or clean, that is to say, sound and without blemish, such as may be offered, as the roe, and the hart, shalt thou eat it: . . .

Context
One Place for Worship
21And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name should be there, be far off, thou shalt kill of thy herds and of thy flocks, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns, as it pleaseth thee. 22Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them: both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.23Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:15
But if thou desirest to eat, and the eating of flesh delight thee, kill, and eat according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee, in thy cities: whether it be unclean, that is to say, having blemish or defect: or clean, that is to say, sound and without blemish, such as may be offered, as the roe, and the hart, shalt thou eat it:

Deuteronomy 12:21
And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name should be there, be far off, thou shalt kill of thy herds and of thy flocks, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns, as it pleaseth thee.

Deuteronomy 12:23
Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:

Deuteronomy 12:21
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