12:15 On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you 3 in all your villages. 4 Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.
1 tn Heb “the
2 tc Some scholars, on the basis of v. 11, emend the MT reading שִׁכְנוֹ (shikhno, “his residence”) to the infinitive construct לְשָׁכֵן (lÿshakhen, “to make [his name] to dwell”), perhaps with the 3rd person masculine singular sf לְשַׁכְּנוֹ (lÿshakÿno, “to cause it to dwell”). Though the presupposed nounשֵׁכֶן (shekhen) is nowhere else attested, the parallel here with שַׁמָּה (shammah, “there”) favors retaining the MT as it stands.
3 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.”
4 tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB; likewise in vv. 17, 18).
5 tn Heb “the
6 tn Heb “the
7 tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in your own community.”