12:20 When the Lord your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say, “I want to eat meat just as I please,” 1 you may do so as you wish. 2
32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and my sword will devour flesh –
the blood of the slaughtered and captured,
the chief 3 of the enemy’s leaders!’”
12:15 On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you 7 in all your villages. 8 Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.
1 tn Heb “for my soul desires to eat meat.”
2 tn Heb “according to all the desire of your soul you may eat meat.”
3 tn Or “head” (the same Hebrew word can mean “head” in the sense of “leader, chieftain” or “head” in the sense of body part).
5 tn Heb “who is there of all flesh.”
7 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”
8 tn Heb “siege and stress.”
9 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.”
10 tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB; likewise in vv. 17, 18).