Deuteronomy 12 · Verse 22

Deuteronomy 12:22

Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

Deuteronomy 12:22, King James Version

Deuteronomy 12:22 in other translations

BSB	Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
WEB	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.
ASV	Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.
YLT	only, as the roe and the hart is eaten, so dost thou eat it; the unclean and the clean doth alike eat it.
DARBY	Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean alike may eat of them.
BBE	It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.
Webster	Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

What does Deuteronomy 12:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 12:22-28

22-28. Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them, &c.--Game when procured in the wilderness had not been required to be brought to the door of the tabernacle. The people were now to be as free in the killing of domestic cattle as of wild animals. The permission to hunt and use venison for food was doubtless a great boon to the Israelites, not only in the wilderness, but on their settlement in Canaan, as the mountainous ranges of Lebanon, Carmel, and Gilead, on which deer abounded in vast numbers, would thus furnish them with a plentiful and luxuriant repast.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 12:5-32

The command to bring ALL the sacrifices to the door of the tabernacle, was now explained with reference to the promised land. As to moral service, then, as now, men might pray and worship every where, as they did in their synagogues. The place which God would choose, is said to be the place where he would put his name. It was to be his habitation, where, as King of Israel, he would be found by all who reverently…

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Deuteronomy 12:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַ֗ךְ'AkhsurelyH389

כַּאֲשֶׁ֨רka.'a.Sherjust asH834

יֵאָכֵ֤לye.'a.Khelit is eatenH398

אֶֽת\־'et-<obj.>H853

הַצְּבִי֙ha.tze.Vithe gazelleH6643

וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853

הָ֣אַיָּ֔לha.'ai.Yalthe deerH354

כֵּ֖ןkensoH3651

תֹּאכְלֶ֑נּוּto.khe.Le.nuyou will eat itH398

הַטָּמֵא֙ha.ta.Me'the uncleanH2931

וְהַטָּה֔וֹרve.ha.ta.Horand the cleanH2889

יַחְדָּ֖וyach.DavalikeH3162

יֹאכְלֶֽנּוּ\׃yo.khe.Le.nuhe will eat itH398

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 12:22

Deuteronomy 12:15-16
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart. Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

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Context

Deuteronomy 12:21
If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the Lord hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deuteronomy 12:22
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

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Deuteronomy 12:22 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Lo mismo que se come el corzo y el ciervo, así las comerás: el inmundo y el limpio comerán también de ellas.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	comme on mange de la gazelle et du cerf, ainsi tu en mangeras: celui qui est impur et celui qui est pur en mangeront également.
German Elberfelder 1871	gerade so wie die Gazelle und der Hirsch gegessen werden, also magst du es essen: Der Unreine und der Reine mögen es gleicherweise essen.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Sicut comeditur caprea et cervus, ita vesceris eis: et mundus et immundus in commune vescentur.