Deuteronomy 15:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Its blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water. American Standard Version (1901) Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water. Common English Bible Even so, don’t consume any blood. Pour it out on the ground, like water. Catholic Public Domain Version This alone shall you observe: that you do not eat their blood, but pour it upon the ground like water." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water. |
Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?
“If anyone of the house of Israel or of the aliens who reside among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut that person off from the people.
“You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.
You must not eat any blood whatever, either of bird or of animal, in any of your settlements.
but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from sexual immorality and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.
“Yet whenever you desire you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, according to the blessing that the Lord your God has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as they would of gazelle or deer.
The blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
so the troops flew upon the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground, and the troops ate them with the blood.
Then it was reported to Saul, “Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a large stone before me here.”