Deuteronomy 12:15

DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON Deuteronomy 12:15 you may... eat meat within any of your towns. Apparently the people had been told that, ordinarily, they could eat only sacrificial meat (Leviticus 17:1). Now, partly because of the distances that people would be from the central place for sacrifice (Deuteronomy 12:20), they are allowed to eat non-sacrificial meat. Unclean and the clean is a ceremonial distinction, not a moral one. Leviticus 12:1 defines certain people as unclean. They are forbidden to eat sacrificial meat, but this would not apply to meat from non-sacrificial animals.