Defective first-born males would be eaten in the homes of the owners (see similar instructions in 12.15-16).

The unclean and the clean: both ritually clean and unclean people could share in the meal (see 12.15).

A gazelle or a hart: see 12.15.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Deuteronomy. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2000. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .