Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 12:18 
Context12:18 Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he 1 chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites 2 in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor. 3
Deuteronomy 12:21
Context12:21 If the place he 4 chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he 5 has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages 6 just as you wish.
Deuteronomy 14:7
Context14:7 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. 7 (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).
Deuteronomy 14:23
Context14:23 In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, 8 your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.
Deuteronomy 14:29
Context14:29 Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work you do.
Deuteronomy 20:19
Context20:19 If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, 9 you must not chop down its trees, 10 for you may eat fruit 11 from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it! 12
Deuteronomy 26:12
Context26:12 When you finish tithing all 13 your income in the third year (the year of tithing), you must give it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows 14 so that they may eat to their satisfaction in your villages. 15
Deuteronomy 28:31
Context28:31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.
Deuteronomy 31:20
Context31:20 For after I have brought them 16 to the land I promised to their 17 ancestors – one flowing with milk and honey – and they 18 eat their fill 19 and become fat, then they 20 will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.
1 tn Heb “the
2 tn See note at Deut 12:12.
3 tn Heb “in all the sending forth of your hands.”
4 tn Heb “the
5 tn Heb “the
6 tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in your own community.”
7 tn The Hebrew term שָׁפָן (shafan) may refer to the “coney” (cf. KJV, NIV) or hyrax (“rock badger,” cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT).
8 tn This refers to wine in the early stages of fermentation. In its later stages it becomes wine (יַיִן, yayin) in its mature sense.
9 tn Heb “to fight against it to capture it.”
10 tn Heb “you must not destroy its trees by chopping them with an iron” (i.e., an ax).
11 tn Heb “you may eat from them.” The direct object is not expressed; the word “fruit” is supplied in the translation for clarity.
12 tn Heb “to go before you in siege.”
13 tn Heb includes “the tithes of.” This has not been included in the translation to avoid redundancy.
14 tn The terms “Levite, resident foreigner, orphan, and widow” are collective singulars in the Hebrew text (also in v. 13).
15 tn Heb “gates.”
16 tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
17 tn Heb “his.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “their.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
18 tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
19 tn Heb “and are satisfied.”
20 tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.
