Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the LORD your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 15. But. Hebrew “Yet thou mayst kill and eat the flesh which thy soul desireth in all thy gates, with which the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roe buck,” and so forth Bible.—The Vulgate translates verse 22 in this sense, intimating that these meats did not contract any such peculiar sanctity, as to exclude those who were unclean, verse 20. Leviticus 17:3. Fagius pretends, that only the clean were allowed as yet to eat of such meats, though the unclean might eat in the promised land what was lawful, without bringing the beast to be slain before the tabernacle. But this opinion seems to have no solid foundation. Unclean beasts could never be eaten. Calmet.—But those which had any defect, were excluded from being sacrificed. Leviticus 22:22. Menochius.