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NASB | Deuteronomy 12:15 ¶ "However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 12:15 ¶ "However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your [city] gates, whatever you wish, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you [as His generous provision for daily life]. The [ceremonially] unclean and the clean may eat it, such as the gazelle and the deer. |
Bible Question: why is it that God says they can eat unclean or clean whatever they lust over? Is the law about unclean meat not a law anymore? Also does it apply only to the gazelle and hart or does it apply to all unclean meat? |
Bible Answer: The law about unclean meats did not change. The text is not talking about unclean "meats" but unclean people. That is, it is referring to folks who were forbidden from defiling the sanctuary due to being ceremonialy unclean for whatever reason. The reason that these folks could now partake of the sacrificial meat was that upon entering Canaan these sacrifices were now being done at home for a while and not in the sanctuary which they would have defiled. |
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Russel Gauthier |