Deuteronomy 12:16 - New Revised Standard Version The blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the ground as water. American Standard Version (1901) Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. Common English Bible But you must not consume any of the animals’ blood. Pour it out on the ground, just like water. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Only the blood thou shalt not eat: but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. |
For the blood she shed is inside it; she placed it on a bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground, to cover it with earth.
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?
You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your settlements: you must not eat any fat or any blood.
but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.
that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
within your towns you may eat it, the unclean and the clean alike, as you would a gazelle or deer.
Its blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving;
so the troops flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the troops ate them with the blood.
Then it was reported to Saul, “Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a large stone before me here.”