Deuteronomy 12:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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: |
Therefore say to them, “This is what the Lord God says: You eat meat with blood in it, you look to your idols, and you shed blood. Should you then receive possession of the land?
‘Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside among them who eats any blood, I will turn against that person who eats blood and cut him off from his people.
For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have appointed it to you to make atonement on the altar for your lives, since it is the lifeblood that makes atonement.
‘You are not to eat anything with blood in it. , You are not to practise divination or witchcraft.
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.’
but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.
Indeed, you may eat it as the gazelle and deer are eaten; both the clean and the unclean may eat it.
And they sang a new song: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slaughtered, and you purchased people for God by your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation.
they rushed to the plunder, took sheep, goats, cattle, and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and ate meat with the blood still in it.
Some reported to Saul, ‘Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating meat with the blood still in it.’ Saul said, ‘You have been unfaithful. Roll a large stone over here at once.’