^15:22You may eat it in your villages,³⁹ whether you are ritually impure or clean,⁴⁰ just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex. ^15:23However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

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Footnotes

39 Heb “in your gates.”
40 The adds ἐν σοί (en soi, “among you”) to make clear that the antecedent is the people and not the animals. That is, the people, whether ritually purified or not, may eat such defective animals.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You shall eat it within your towns. The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer. Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer. But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Eat it within your city gates; both the unclean person and the clean may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or deer. But you must not eat its blood; pour it on the ground like water.

NLTNew Living Translation

Instead, use it for food for your family in your hometown. Anyone, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat it, just as anyone may eat a gazelle or deer. But you must not consume the blood. You must pour it out on the ground like water.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

In your towns you shall eat it, the unclean and the clean together may eat it, just as they eat the gazelle and as they eat the deer. But you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

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