Regulations for Eating Meat and Blood

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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,

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but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

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Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.

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Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,

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and be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.

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When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.

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If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.

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Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.

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Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

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You must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

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Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

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But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.

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Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.

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Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

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