Deuteronomy 6:11
6:11 houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant – and you eat your fill,
Deuteronomy 8:9
8:9 a land where you may eat food 1 in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron 2 and from whose hills you can mine copper.
Deuteronomy 12:17
12:17 You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.
Deuteronomy 12:20
The Sanctity of Blood
12:20 When the Lord your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say, “I want to eat meat just as I please,” 3 you may do so as you wish. 4
Deuteronomy 12:25
12:25 You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight. 5
Deuteronomy 12:27
12:27 You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your other sacrifices 6 you must pour out on his 7 altar while you eat the meat.
Deuteronomy 14:8
14:8 Also the pig is ritually impure to you; though it has divided hooves, 8 it does not chew the cud. You may not eat their meat or even touch their remains.
Deuteronomy 14:26
14:26 Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and enjoy it.
Deuteronomy 16:8
16:8 You must eat bread made without yeast for six days. The seventh day you are to hold an assembly for the Lord your God; you must not do any work on that day. 9
Deuteronomy 18:1
Provision for Priests and Levites
18:1 The Levitical priests 10 – indeed, the entire tribe of Levi – will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the Lord and of his inheritance. 11
Deuteronomy 28:53
28:53 You will then eat your own offspring, 12 the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege 13 by which your enemies will constrict you.
Deuteronomy 28:57
28:57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth 14 and her newborn children 15 (since she has nothing else), 16 because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
1 tn The Hebrew term may refer to “food” in a more general sense (cf. NASB, NCV, NLT) or “bread” in particular (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).
2 sn A land whose stones are iron. Since iron deposits are few and far between in Palestine, the reference here is probably to iron ore found in mines as opposed to the meteorite iron more commonly known in that area.
3 tn Heb “for my soul desires to eat meat.”
4 tn Heb “according to all the desire of your soul you may eat meat.”
5 tc Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.” The LXX adds “your God” to create the common formula, “the Lord your God.” The MT is preferred precisely because it does not include the stereotyped formula; thus it more likely preserves the original text.
6 sn These other sacrifices would be so-called peace or fellowship offerings whose ritual required a different use of the blood from that of burnt (sin and trespass) offerings (cf. Lev 3; 7:11-14, 19-21).
7 tn Heb “on the altar of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
8 tc The MT lacks (probably by haplography) the phrase וְשֹׁסַע שֶׁסַע פַּרְסָה (vÿshosa’ shesa’ parsah, “and is clovenfooted,” i.e., “has parted hooves”), a phrase found in the otherwise exact parallel in Lev 11:7. The LXX and Smr attest the longer reading here. The meaning is, however, clear without it.
9 tn The words “on that day” are not in the Hebrew text; they are supplied in the translation for clarification (cf. TEV, NLT).
10 tn The MT places the terms “priests” and “Levites” in apposition, thus creating an epexegetical construction in which the second term qualifies the first, i.e., “Levitical priests.” This is a way of asserting their legitimacy as true priests. The Syriac renders “to the priest and to the Levite,” making a distinction between the two, but one that is out of place here.
11 sn Of his inheritance. This is a figurative way of speaking of the produce of the land the Lord will give to his people. It is the Lord’s inheritance, but the Levites are allowed to eat it since they themselves have no inheritance among the other tribes of Israel.
12 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”
13 tn Heb “siege and stress.”
14 tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”
15 tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”
16 tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”