Deuteronomy 15:22
in Deuteronomy 15Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
KJV
Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 15
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThou 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 Deu 12:15.
This site's exposition
But if an animal has a defect
on Deuteronomy 15:21-23
Lame and blind is the pair Malachi 1:8 throws back at priests who brought such animals to the altar. What cannot be sacrificed is eaten at home as common food by clean and unclean alike, the allowance of 12:15 and 12:22.
This site's exposition
Eat it within your gates
Leviticus 7:20 cuts off an unclean person who eats the meat of a peace offering. The blemished firstling has left the altar's law, and John Gill lets a man unclean from touching a dead body eat it with the clean. Gazelle and deer were food and never sacrifices.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בִּשְׁעָרֶ֖יךָ | bishareikha | in gates your | H8179 → | 374 times |
| תֹּאכֲלֶ֑נּוּ | tokhalenu | you will eat it | H398 → | 810 times |
| הַטָּמֵ֤א | hatame' | the unclean | H2931 → | 88 times |
| וְהַטָּהוֹר֙ | vehatahor | and the clean | H2889 → | 94 times |
| יַחְדָּ֔ו | yachdav | alike | H3162 → | 141 times |
| כַּצְּבִ֖י | katzevi | like <the> gazelle | H6643 → | 33 times |
| וְכָאַיָּֽל׃ | vekhaaiyal | and like <the> deer | H354 → | 11 times |
בִּשְׁעָרֶ֖יךָin gates your
bishareikhaH8179 →374 times
תֹּאכֲלֶ֑נּוּyou will eat it
tokhalenuH398 →810 times
הַטָּמֵ֤אthe unclean
hatame'H2931 →88 times
וְהַטָּהוֹר֙and the clean
vehatahorH2889 →94 times
יַחְדָּ֔וalike
yachdavH3162 →141 times
כַּצְּבִ֖יlike <the> gazelle
katzeviH6643 →33 times
וְכָאַיָּֽל׃and like <the> deer
vekhaaiyalH354 →11 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.