Deuteronomy 12:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But you must not consume any of the animals’ blood. Pour it out on the ground, just like water.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Only the blood you shall not eat. Instead, you shall pour it upon the ground like water.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Only the blood thou shalt not eat: but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:16 Cross References

Genesis 9:4

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Ezekiel 24:7

For the blood she has shed is still in the midst of her; she put it on the bare rock, she did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.

Ezekiel 33:25

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?

Leviticus 19:26

“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”

Acts 15:20

but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Deuteronomy 15:22

You shall eat it within your towns; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a hart.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

1 Timothy 4:4

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;

1 Samuel 14:32

the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord, by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.”