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22 You may eat it in your villages,[a] whether you are ritually impure or clean,[b] just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex. 23 However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 15:22 tn Heb “in your gates.”
  2. Deuteronomy 15:22 tc The LXX adds ἐν σοί (en soi, “among you”) to make clear that the antecedent is the people and not the animals. That is, the people, whether ritually purified or not, may eat such defective animals.

22 You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer.(A) 23 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.(B)

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