Deu 12:15 | TNotes | STEP | 12:15 butcher your animals ... whenever you want: This instruction refers to animals for eating, not for a ritual sacrifice. • ceremonially clean or unclean: The slaughter of animals for food could take place without the slayer undergoing the purification rituals necessary when sacrificial animals were slain.

‏ Deuteronomy 12:15

12:15 ^a butcher your animals ... whenever you want: This instruction refers to animals for eating, not for a ritual sacrifice.

• ceremonially clean or unclean: The slaughter of animals for food could take place without the slayer undergoing the purification rituals necessary when sacrificial animals were slain.