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Deuteronomy 12:18-22 English Standard Version (ESV)

18. but you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place that the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake.

19. Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

20. “When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.

21. If the place that the Lord your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.

22. Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.

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