Deuteronomy 12:22

22 Indeed, just as gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.

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 your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, "I am going to eat some meat," because you wish to eat meat, you may eat meat whenever you have the desire.

21 If the place where the Lord your God will choose to put his name is too far from you, and you slaughter as I have commanded you any of your herd or flock that the Lord has given you, then you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.

22 Indeed, just as gazelle or deer is eaten, so you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.

23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood; for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.

24 Do not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.