²⁰ When the Lord your God has enlarged your territory^(A) as he promised^(B) you, and you crave meat^(C) and say, “I would like some meat,” then you may eat as much of it as you want. ²¹ If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his Name^(D) is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.^{(E) 22} Eat them as you would gazelle or deer.^(F) Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat. ²³ But be sure you do not eat the blood,^(G) because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.^(H)

⁵ the deer,^(A) the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat,^(B) the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.^[a]