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18 But only before[a] Yahweh your God you shall eat it, at the place that Yahweh your God will choose,[b] you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite who is in your towns,[c] and you must rejoice before[d] your God in all your undertakings.[e] 19 Take care[f] so that you do not neglect the Levite all of your days on your land.

20 “When Yahweh your God enlarges your territory just as he has promised[g] to you, and you say ‘I want to eat some meat,’ because you want it,[h] whenever you desire[i] you may eat meat.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 12:18 Literally “before the face of”
  2. Deuteronomy 12:18 Hebrew “choose it”
  3. Deuteronomy 12:18 Literally “gate”
  4. Deuteronomy 12:18 Literally “before the face of”
  5. Deuteronomy 12:18 Literally “in all of the sending of your hand”
  6. Deuteronomy 12:19 Literally “Watch for yourself”
  7. Deuteronomy 12:20 Literally “spoken”
  8. Deuteronomy 12:20 Literally “because your soul/inner self desires it”
  9. Deuteronomy 12:20 Literally “at/in all the wanting of your soul/inner self”