Sinai LogoSinai

Deuteronomy 12:21

World English Bible

If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

Read all of Deuteronomy 12Open in the Sinai app

Deuteronomy 12:21 in other translations

If the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Jehovah hath given thee, as I have commanded thee; and thou mayest eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul.

Deuteronomy 12:21 · American Standard Version

Deuteronomy 12:21 in context

  1. 19Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
  2. 20When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.
  3. 21If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
  4. 22Even 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.
  5. 23Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.