Deuteronomy 12:15

Regulations for Profane Slaughter

12:15 On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you 1  in all your villages. 2  Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Deuteronomy 14:7

14:7 However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger. 3  (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).

Deuteronomy 24:4

24:4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry 4  her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. 5  You must not bring guilt on the land 6  which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

1 tn Heb “only in all the desire of your soul you may sacrifice and eat flesh according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given to you.”

2 tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB; likewise in vv. 17, 18).

3 tn The Hebrew term שָׁפָן (shafan) may refer to the “coney” (cf. KJV, NIV) or hyrax (“rock badger,” cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).

4 tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”

5 sn The issue here is not divorce and its grounds per se but prohibition of remarriage to a mate whom one has previously divorced.

6 tn Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).