Deuteronomy 12:22

22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them; the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

Deuteronomy 12:22 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 12:22

Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten
Which were not only clean creatures, as before observed, but were commonly and frequently eaten, there being plenty of them in those parts:

so thou shalt eat them;
their oxen and calves, their sheep and lambs, their goats and their kids:

the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike;
no difference being to be made on that account, with respect to common food; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 12:15) which all alike might partake of, notwithstanding any ceremonial uncleanness that any might be attended with.

Deuteronomy 12:22 In-Context

20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he has promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desires to eat flesh, according to all the desire of thy soul thou shalt eat flesh.

21 When the place which the LORD thy God shall have chosen to put his name there is far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy cows and of thy sheep, which the LORD has given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates according to all thy soul desires.

22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them; the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

23 Only be sure not to eat the blood; for the blood is the soul (or the life), and thou art not to eat the soul with its flesh.

24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.