Deuteronomy 12:20

The Sanctity of Blood

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 

Deuteronomy 32:42

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!’”

Deuteronomy 5:26

5:26 Who is there from the entire human race ⁴  who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

Deuteronomy 28:53

28:53 You will then eat your own offspring, ⁵  the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege ⁶  by which your enemies will constrict you.

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 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).