Deuteronomy 12:16 - Tree of Life Version But you are not to eat the blood—you are to 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 her bloodshed is in her midst. She put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.
“Therefore say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘You eat with the blood, lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood. Should you possess the land?
“You are not to eat any meat with the blood still in it, nor are you to use enchantments, or practice sorcery.
“It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you must eat neither fat nor blood.”
but to write to them to abstain from the contamination of idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. By keeping away from these things, you will do well. Shalom!”
You are to eat it within your gates, the unclean and the clean together, just as they eat the gazelle or deer.
Only its blood you are not to eat—you must pour it out on the ground like water.
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;
Then the people rushed greedily upon the plunder, took sheep, oxen and calves, butchered them on the ground, and the people ate them with the blood.
Then they reported to Saul saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against Adonai by eating with the blood.” “You have acted faithlessly,” he said. “Roll a great stone towards me at once.”