Deuteronomy 12:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Deuteronomy 12:16 Cross References

Genesis 9:4

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Deuteronomy 15:23

Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

Acts 15:29

that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:

Acts 15:20

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Leviticus 19:26

Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.

Deuteronomy 15:22

Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.

1 Samuel 14:32

and the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

1 Samuel 14:33

Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have dealt treacherously: roll a great stone unto me this day.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

Ezekiel 33:25

Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.