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New King James Version

Deuteronomy 12:22

Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Roe and Roebuck;   Tithe;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Psalms, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Roe;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Doe;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hart, Hind;   Hunting;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hart,;   Roe, Roebuck;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - High places;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Deer;   Gazelle;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Blood;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hart;   Ishmael of Akbara;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Indeed, you may eat it as the gazelle and deer are eaten; both the clean and the unclean may eat it.
Hebrew Names Version
Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
King James Version
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
Lexham English Bible
Surely just as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so both the unclean and the clean together may eat it.
English Standard Version
Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
New Century Version
as you would eat gazelle or deer meat. Both clean and unclean people may eat this meat,
New English Translation
Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.
Amplified Bible
"Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat it [but not make it an offering]; the [ceremonially] unclean and the clean alike may eat it.
New American Standard Bible
"Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Euen as the roe bucke, and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them. both the vncleane and the cleane shall eate of them alike.
Legacy Standard Bible
Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
Contemporary English Version
It is the same as eating the meat from a deer or a gazelle that you kill when you go hunting. And in this way, anyone who is unclean and unfit for worship can have some of the meat.
Complete Jewish Bible
Eat it as you would gazelle or deer; the unclean and clean alike may eat it.
Darby Translation
Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean alike may eat of them.
Easy-to-Read Version
You may eat this meat the same as you would eat gazelle or deer meat. Anyone can do this—people who are clean and people who are unclean.
George Lamsa Translation
But as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it, the clean and the unclean, you shall eat of it alike.
Good News Translation
Anyone, ritually clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as he would eat the meat of deer or antelope.
Literal Translation
Only, as the gazelle and the hart are eaten, so you shall eat of it; the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euen as a Roo or Hert is eaten, maiest thou eate it: both the cleane and vncleane maie eate it indifferently.
American Standard Version
Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.
Bible in Basic English
It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And as the Roe bucke and the Hart is eaten, euen so thou shalt eate them: both the cleane and the vncleane shall eate of them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Howbeit as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.
King James Version (1611)
Euen as the Roe bucke and the Hart is eaten, so thou shalt eate them: the vncleane and the cleane shall eate of them alike.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
As the doe and the stag are eaten, so shalt thou eat it; the unclean in thee and the clean shall eat it in like manner.
English Revised Version
Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean shall eat thereof alike.
Berean Standard Bible
Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the clean and the unclean may eat it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As a capret and hert is etun, so thou schalt ete tho; bothe a cleene man and vncleene schulen ete therof in comyn.
Young's Literal Translation
only, as the roe and the hart is eaten, so dost thou eat it; the unclean and the clean doth alike eat it.
Update Bible Version
Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.
Webster's Bible Translation
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat [of] them alike.
World English Bible
Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
New Living Translation
Anyone, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as you do now with gazelle and deer.
New Life Bible
You will eat it just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten. Both the clean and unclean may eat of it.
New Revised Standard
Indeed, just as gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so, shalt thou eat it, - the unclean and the clean, alike shall eat it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Even as the roe and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them: both the clean and unclean shall eat of them alike.
Revised Standard Version
Just as the gazelle or the hart is eaten, so you may eat of it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.

Contextual Overview

5 "But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go. 6 There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 7 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you. 8 "You shall not at all do as we are doing here today--every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes-- 9 for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you. 10 But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety, 11 then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD. 12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 13 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; 14 but in the place which the LORD chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 12:15, Deuteronomy 12:16

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 15:22 - the unclean

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten,.... Which were not only clean creatures, as before observed, but were commonly and frequently eaten, there being plenty of them in those parts:

so thou shalt eat them; their oxen and calves, their sheep and lambs, their goats and their kids:

the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike; no difference being to be made on that account, with respect to common food;

:- which all alike might partake of, notwithstanding any ceremonial uncleanness that any might be attended with.


 
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