Bible Strands
Deuteronomy 12:22
Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses Israel regarding the practical application of dietary laws when the central sanctuary is too distant to visit regularly. He clarifies that the restriction on consuming meat does not apply to ordinary herd and flock slaughter.
The words — אַ֗ךְ ('Akh) = surely and כֵּ֖ן (ken) = so frame the permission, establishing that the granted allowance matches the standard comparison.
The thread — This permission extends the allowance first introduced in Deuteronomy 12:15 and is immediately bounded by the prohibition in Deuteronomy 12:23.
Why it lands — It requires obeying dietary boundaries by consuming permitted meat without blood while acknowledging that ritual purity status no longer restricts consumption of properly slaughtered livestock.
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The Hebrew words
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.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 12:15 But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,