It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble. ¹ 

For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them ¹  to sin.

Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

Pile up the bones, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours.

“I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘During the evening ¹  you will eat meat, ²  and in the morning you will be satisfied ³  with bread, so that you may know ⁴  that I am the Lord your God.’” ⁵ 

Moses said, “The people around me ¹  are 600,000 on foot; ²  but you say, ‘I will give them meat, ³  that they may eat ⁴  for a whole month.’

But look, there is outright celebration! ¹  You say, “Kill the ox and slaughter the sheep, eat meat and drink wine. Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” ² 

They say, ¹  ‘The time is not near to build houses; ²  the city ³  is a cooking pot ⁴  and we are the meat in it.’

This city will not be a cooking pot for you, and you will not ¹  be meat within it; I will judge you at the border of Israel.

Now the priests would always treat the people in the following way: ¹  Whenever anyone was making a sacrifice, while the meat was boiling, the priest’s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork ²  in his hand.

Half of it he burns in the fire – over that half he cooks ¹  meat; he roasts a meal and fills himself. Yes, he warms himself and says, ‘Ah! I am warm as I look at the fire.’

If someone carries holy meat in a fold of his garment and that fold touches bread, a boiled dish, wine, olive oil, or any other food, will that item become holy?’” ¹  The priests answered, “It will not.”

but the leftovers from the meat of the sacrifice must be burned up in the fire ¹  on the third day.

They were not yet filled up, ¹  their food was still in their mouths,

Then she handed ¹  the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

“You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook ¹  its meat in a holy place. ² 

You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; ¹  they are unclean to you.

Since they are detestable to you, you must not eat their meat and their carcass you must detest.

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself ¹  – you must not eat the life with the meat!