Deuteronomy 12:27

12:27 You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your other sacrifices ¹  you must pour out on his ²  altar while you eat the meat.

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,” ³  you may do so as you wish. ⁴ 

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 ⁵  of the enemy’s leaders!’”

Deuteronomy 5:26

5:26 Who is there from the entire human race ⁶  who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

Deuteronomy 12:23

12:23 However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself ⁷  – you must not eat the life with the meat!

Deuteronomy 14:8

14:8 Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, ⁸  it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.

Deuteronomy 16:4

16:4 There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land ⁹  for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning. ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 28:53

28:53 You will then eat your own offspring, ¹¹  the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege ¹²  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 ¹³  in all your villages. ¹⁴  Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Deuteronomy 28:55

28:55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict ¹⁵  you in your villages.

[12:27]  ¹ sn These other sacrifices would be so-called peace or fellowship offerings whose ritual required a different use of the blood from that of burnt (sin and trespass) offerings (cf. Lev 3; 7:11-14, 19-21).

[12:27]  ² tn Heb “on the altar of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[12:20]  ³ tn Heb “for my soul desires to eat meat.”

[12:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “according to all the desire of your soul you may eat meat.”

[32:42]  ⁵ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “who is there of all flesh.”

[12:23]  ⁹ sn The blood is life itself. This is a figure of speech (metonymy) in which the cause or means (the blood) stands for the result or effect (life). That is, life depends upon the existence and circulation of blood, a truth known empirically but not scientifically tested and proved until the 17th century a.d. (cf. Lev 17:11).

[14:8]  ¹¹ tc The MT lacks (probably by haplography) the phrase וְשֹׁסַע שֶׁסַע פַּרְסָה (vÿshosa’ shesa’ parsah, “and is clovenfooted,” i.e., “has parted hooves”), a phrase found in the otherwise exact parallel in Lev 11:7. The LXX and Smr attest the longer reading here. The meaning is, however, clear without it.

[16:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “leaven must not be seen among you in all your border.”

[16:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “remain all night until the morning” (so KJV, ASV). This has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[28:53]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”

[28:53]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “siege and stress.”

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

[28:55]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “besiege,” redundant with the noun “siege.”