Deuteronomy 12:20
Context12:20 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
Context32:42 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
Context5:26 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
Context28:53 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
Context12:15 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.


[12:20] 1 tn Heb “for my soul desires to eat meat.”
[12:20] 2 tn Heb “according to all the desire of your soul you may eat meat.”
[32:42] 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).
[5:26] 5 tn Heb “who is there of all flesh.”
[28:53] 7 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”
[28:53] 8 tn Heb “siege and stress.”
[12:15] 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.”
[12:15] 10 tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB; likewise in vv. 17, 18).