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Deuteronomy 12:23
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
- KJV
- Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.be…: Heb. be strong
- WEB
- Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.
- ASV
- Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.
- LSV
- Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood [is] the life, and you do not eat the life with the flesh;
- YLT
- 'Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood [is] the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh;
- DBY
- Only, be sure that thou eat not the blood; for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh;
- DRC
- Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:
- GNV
- Onely bee sure that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou maiest not eate the life with the flesh.
- JPS
- Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.
- LXXE
- Take diligent heed that thou eat no blood, for blood is the life of it; the life shall not be eaten with the flesh.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- רַ֣ק חֲזַ֗ק לְבִלְתִּי֙ אֲכֹ֣ל הַדָּ֔ם כִּ֥י הַדָּ֖ם ה֣וּא הַנָּ֑פֶשׁ וְלֹא־תֹאכַ֥ל הַנֶּ֖פֶשׁ עִם־הַבָּשָֽׂר׃
- LXX-Br
- Πρόσεχε ἰσχυρῶς τοῦ μὴ φαγεῖν αἷμα, ὅτι αἷμα αὐτοῦ ψυχή· οὐ βρωθήσεται ψυχὴ μετὰ τῶν κρεῶν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Leviticus 17:11For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
- Genesis 9:4But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
- Leviticus 17:13–14And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt. For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the…
- Deuteronomy 12:16but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Leviticus 3:16–17Then the priest is to burn the food on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD’s. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat…
- Matthew 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
- Revelation 5:9And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).