Deuteronomy 15:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

Common English Bible

²³ Even so, don’t consume any blood. Pour it out on the ground, like water.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ 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

²³ Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 15:23 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 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.

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 12:15

Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

Deuteronomy 12:16

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

Deuteronomy 12:23

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.

Deuteronomy 12:24

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

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.