16. But you are not to eat the blood—you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
17. You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the offering of your hand.
18. Rather you are to eat them before Adonai your God in the place Adonai your God chooses—you, your son and daughter, your slave and maid, and the Levite within your gates—and you will rejoice before Adonai your God in every undertaking of your hand.
19. Be careful that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live on the earth.
20. “When Adonai your God enlarges your territory as He has promised you, and you say, ‘I want to eat meat,’ because your soul craves meat, then you may eat meat—all your soul’s desire.
21. If the place Adonai your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of your herd and flock that Adonai has given you—as I have commanded you—and you may eat within your gates, all your soul’s desire.
22. Just as the gazelle or hart is eaten, so you may eat it—the unclean and clean alike may eat it.
23. Only be sure that you do not eat the blood—for the blood is the life, and you are not to eat the life with the meat.