Deuteronomy 12:15

Regulations for Profane Slaughter

12:15 On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you 1  in all your villages. 2  Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Deuteronomy 12:21-22

12:21 If the place he 3  chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he 4  has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages 5  just as you wish. 12:22 Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

1 tn Heb “only in all the desire of your soul you may sacrifice and eat flesh according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given to you.”

2 tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB; likewise in vv. 17, 18).

3 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

4 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

5 tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in your own community.”