^{20 Ref} When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

^{21 Ref} If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.

^{22 Ref} It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.

^{23 Ref} But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.