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Deuteronomy 12:22
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KJ21
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them; the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
ASV
Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.
AMP
Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat it [but not make it an offering]; the [ceremonially] unclean and the clean alike may eat it.
AMPC
Just as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so you may eat of it [but not offer it]; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
BRG
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
CSB
Indeed, you may eat it as the gazelle and deer are eaten; both the clean and the unclean may eat it.
CSBA
Indeed, you may eat it as the gazelle and deer are eaten; both the clean and the unclean may eat it.
CEB
But be sure to eat it as if it were gazelle or deer. People who are polluted and people who are purified can feast on it together.
CJB
Eat it as you would gazelle or deer; the unclean and clean alike may eat it.
CEV
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.
DARBY
Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean alike may eat of them.
DRA
Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them: both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.
ERV
You may eat this meat the same as you would eat gazelle or deer meat. Anyone can do this—people who are clean and people who are unclean.
EASY
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.
EHV
Yes, just as gazelle and deer are eaten, you may eat it. The unclean and the clean person alike may eat it.
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.
ESVUK
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.
EXB
as you would eat gazelle or deer meat. Both clean and unclean people [C in a ritual sense] may eat this meat,
GNV
But as the roebuck, and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them: both the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
GW
Eat it as you would eat a gazelle or a deer: Clean and unclean people may eat it together.
GNT
Anyone, ritually clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as he would eat the meat of deer or antelope.
HCSB
Indeed, you may eat it as the gazelle and deer are eaten; both the clean and the unclean may eat it.
ICB
Eat them as you would eat gazelle or deer meat. Both clean and unclean people may eat this meat.
ISV
You may eat them just as you would gazelle and deer. Ritually unqualified and qualified people may eat them.
JUB
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them; the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
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.
AKJV
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
LSB
Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
LEB
Surely just as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so both the unclean and the clean together may eat it.
TLB
“If, when the Lord enlarges your borders, the central altar is too far away from you, then your flocks and herds may be butchered on your own farms, just as you do now with gazelle and deer. And even persons who are ceremonially defiled may eat them. The only restriction is never to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
MSG
When God, your God, expands your territory as he promised he would do, and you say, “I’m hungry for meat,” because you happen to be craving meat at the time, go ahead and eat as much meat as you want. If you’re too far away from the place that God, your God, has marked with his name, it’s all right to slaughter animals from your herds and flocks that God has given you, as I’ve commanded you. In your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want. Just as the nonsacrificial animals like the gazelle and deer are eaten, you may eat them; the ritually unclean and clean may eat them at the same table.
MEV
Even as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you shall eat them. The unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
NOG
Eat it as you would eat a gazelle or a deer: Clean and unclean people may eat it together.
NABRE
You may eat it as you would the gazelle or the deer: the unclean and the clean eating it together.
NASB
Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.
NASB1995
Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
NCB
You can eat them like you would eat the gazelle or the roebuck. Both the unclean and the clean can eat of it.
NCV
as you would eat gazelle or deer meat. Both clean and unclean people may eat this meat,
NET
As you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.
NIRV
Eat it as you would eat antelope or deer meat. Those who are “clean” and those who are not can eat it.
NIV
Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.
NIVUK
Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.
NKJV
Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them.
NLV
You will eat it just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten. Both the clean and unclean may eat of it.
NLT
Anyone, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as you do now with gazelle and deer.
NRSVA
Indeed, just as gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.
NRSVACE
Indeed, just as gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.
NRSVCE
Indeed, just as gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.
NRSVUE
Indeed, just as gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.
OJB
Even as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so thou shalt eat them; the tameh (unclean) and the tahor (clean) shall eat of them alike.
RGT
“But, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so shall you eat them. The unclean and the clean alike shall eat them.
RSV
Just as the gazelle or the hart is eaten, so you may eat of it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
RSVCE
Just as the gazelle or the hart is eaten, so you may eat of it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
TLV
Just as the gazelle or hart is eaten, so you may eat it—the unclean and clean alike may eat it.
VOICE
It’s just like eating a gazelle or a deer. People don’t need to be ritually pure to eat this meat.
WEB
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.
WYC
As (the meat of) a capret and an hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat those; both a clean man and an unclean (man) shall eat thereof in common. (Thou shalt eat it, like thou would the meat of a gazelle, or a deer; both a clean person and an unclean person shall eat it in common.)
YLT
only, as the roe and the hart is eaten, so dost thou eat it; the unclean and the clean doth alike eat it.
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