Deuteronomy 12:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you may not eat the life with the flesh.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ 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.

Common English Bible

²³ Furthermore, make sure that you don’t consume any of the blood, because blood is life. You must not consume the life along with the meat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Only beware of this: you may not eat the blood. For their blood is for the soul. And because of this, you must not eat the soul with the flesh.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ 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:

Deuteronomy 12:23 Cross References

Genesis 9:4

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

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 17:10

And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood; I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17:11

For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.

Leviticus 19:26

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

Leviticus 7:26

And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

Matthew 20:28

even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

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.

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:22

Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean shall eat thereof alike.

Deuteronomy 12:24

Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 15:23

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

Revelation 5:9

And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

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.