Deuteronomy 12:15
 Deuteronomy 12:15 
New International Version (© 2011)
Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the LORD your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.

King James Bible
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.

American Standard Version
Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

Young's Literal Translation
'Only, with all the desire of thy soul thou dost sacrifice, and hast eaten flesh according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which He hath given to thee, in all thy gates; the unclean and the clean do eat it, as of the roe, and as of the hart.

Deuteronomy 12:15 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates - With the proviso that the blood be poured out on the ground.

1. The blood should not be eaten.

2. It should be poured out by way of sacrifice. I think this is the meaning; and not that they should pour out the blood with as little ceremony and respect as they poured water upon the ground, which is the meaning according to Calmet and others.

The roebuck, and - the hart - It is very likely that by צבי tsebi the antelope is meant; and by איל aiyal, the hart or deer. This is the opinion of Dr. Shaw; and from the report of travelers we learn that both these animals are found in that desert to the present day. See Harmer, vol. iv., p. 25, etc. Of the propriety of eating clean animals there could be no question, but the blood must be poured out; yet there were cases in which they might kill and eat in all their gates, cities, and dwellings - such as the roebuck and the hart, or all clean wild beasts, for these being taken in hunting, and frequently shot by arrows, their blood could not be poured out at the altar. Therefore the command appears to take in only such tame beasts as were used for food.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whatsoever

Deuteronomy 14:26 And you shall bestow that money for whatever your soul lusts after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink...

the unclean

Deuteronomy 12:21,22 If the place which the LORD your God has chosen to put his name there be too far from you...

Deuteronomy 14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

Deuteronomy 15:22,23 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart...

Leviticus 17:3-5 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that kills it out of the camp...

Of the propriety of eating clean animals there could be no question, but the blood must be poured out: yet there were cases when they might kill and eat in all their gates such as the roebuck and the hart, or all clean {wild} beasts; for these being taken in hunting, and frequently shot with arrows, their blood could not be poured out at the altar

Deuteronomy 12:15 Parallel Commentaries
Blessing Clean Desire Desireth Eat Hart However Kill Lusteth Mayest Meat Notwithstanding Roebuck Slaughter Soul Thereof Unclean Whatever Whatsoever Within
Blessing Clean Desire Desireth Eat Hart However Kill Lusteth Mayest Meat Notwithstanding Roebuck Slaughter Soul Thereof Unclean Whatever Whatsoever Within
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Deuteronomy 12:14 Offer them only at the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.
Deuteronomy 12:20 When the LORD your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, "I would like some meat," then you may eat as much of it as you want.
Deuteronomy 12:22 Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.
Deuteronomy 14:5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.
Deuteronomy 15:22 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.