18 Eat these things when you are together with the Lord. Eat them in the place the Lord your God chooses to be worshiped. Everyone must do this: you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns. Rejoice in the Lord’s presence about the things you have worked for.
19 Be careful not to forget the Levites as long as you live in the land.
20 The Lord your God will enlarge your country as he has promised. And you will want some meat. You will say, “I want some meat.” Eat as much meat as you want.
21 The Lord your God will choose a place where he is to be worshiped. But it may be too far away from you. If it is, you may kill animals from your herds and flocks. The Lord has given them to you. I have commanded that you may do this. You may eat as much of them as you want in your own towns.
22 Eat them as you would eat gazelle or deer meat. Both clean and unclean people may eat this meat.
23 But be sure you don’t eat the blood. The life is in the blood. Don’t eat the life with the meat.
24 Don’t eat the blood. Pour it out on the ground like water.