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20 Every year you and your family must eat these animals in the presence of Yahweh your Elohim in the place Yahweh will choose. 21 But if an animal is lame or blind or has any other serious defect—never sacrifice it to Yahweh your Elohim. 22 Eat it in your city. Clean and unclean[a] people may eat them together as if they were eating a gazelle or a deer.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 15:22 “Clean” refers to anything that is presentable to God. “Unclean” refers to anything that is not presentable to God.

20 Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose.(A) 21 If an animal has a defect,(B) is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.(C) 22 You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer.(D)

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20 Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou and thy household.

21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God.

22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

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