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

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.

Deuteronomy 16:6

16:6 but you must sacrifice it ⁶  in the evening in ⁷  the place where he ⁸  chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

[12:15]  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.”

[12:15]  ² tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB; likewise in vv. 17, 18).

[12:21]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in your own community.”

[16:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Passover.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.

[16:6]  ⁶ tc The MT reading אֶל (’el, “unto”) before “the place” should, following Smr, Syriac, Targums, and Vulgate, be omitted in favor of ב (bet; בַּמָּקוֹם, bammaqom), “in the place.”

[16:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.