Deuteronomy - 15:22



22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean (shall eat it) alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 15:22.

Differing Translations

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Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean'shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean and the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart.
In thy gates shalt thou eat it; the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the hart.
within thy gates thou dost eat it, the unclean and the clean alike, as the roe, and as the hart.
It may be used for food in your houses: the unclean and the clean may take of it, as of the gazelle and the roe.
You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the deer.
Instead, you shall eat it within the gates of your city. The clean as well as the unclean alike shall feed on these, such as the roe deer and the stag.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean [person shall eat it] alike, (i) as the roebuck, and as the hart.
(i) You will eat them, as well as the roe buck and other wild beasts.

Thou shalt eat it within thy gates,.... Though it might not be sacrificed, nor eaten as an eucharistic feast at Jerusalem, it might be eaten as common food in their own houses:
the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike; such as were ceremonially unclean, by the touch of a dead body or the like, might partake of it with those that were clean, no difference was to be made:
as the roebuck and as the hart; which were clean creatures, and used for food, though not for sacrifice; see Deuteronomy 12:15.

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