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Deuteronomy 12:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- KJV
- Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
- WEB
- Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
- ASV
- Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
- LSV
- Only, you do not eat the blood—you pour it on the earth as water;
- YLT
- 'Only, the blood ye do not eat — on the earth thou dost pour it as water;
- DBY
- Only, ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
- DRC
- Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
- GNV
- Onely ye shall not eat the blood, but powre it vpon the earth as water.
- JPS
- Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
- LXXE
- Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it out on the ground as water.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- רַ֥ק הַדָּ֖ם לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֑לוּ עַל־הָאָ֥רֶץ תִּשְׁפְּכֶ֖נּוּ כַּמָּֽיִם׃
- LXX-Br
- Πλὴν τὸ αἷμα οὐ φάγεσθε· ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἐκχεεῖτε αὐτὸ, ὡς ὕδωρ.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
BloodTithe or TenthFoodHigh placeSanctuarySanitationBeastsMaccabees, Books ofAtonement, Day ofPentateuch
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Genesis 9:4But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
- Deuteronomy 15:23But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Deuteronomy 12:23–24Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. You must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Acts 15:29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
- 1 Timothy 4:4For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
- Leviticus 17:10–13If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have…
- Leviticus 7:26–27You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings. If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.’”
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).