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Deuteronomy 12:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" If the place which the LORD your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul. "

Deuteronomy 12:21

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19 Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

20 When the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

21 If the place which the LORD your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

22 Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.

23 Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.

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Deuteronomy 16:2

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"You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to cause his name to dwell there."

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Deuteronomy 14:23

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"For whoever eats the fat of the animal which men offer as an offering made by fire to the LORD, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people."

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Numbers 32:4

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"the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”"

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Deuteronomy 14:24

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"If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which the LORD your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when the LORD your God blesses you,"

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Deuteronomy 12:1

"These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth."

Deuteronomy 12:2

"You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree."

Deuteronomy 12:3

"You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place."

Deuteronomy 12:4

"You shall not do so to the LORD your God."

Deuteronomy 12:5

"But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there."

Deuteronomy 12:6

"You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there."

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