Deuteronomy 15:23 - Tree of Life Version Only its blood you are not to eat—you must pour it out on the ground like water. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water. American Standard Version (1901) Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water. Common English Bible Even so, don’t consume any blood. Pour it out on the ground, like water. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water. |
“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?
“Anyone from the house of Israel, or from the outsiders dwelling among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul—the one who eats blood—and will cut him off from among his people.
“You are not to eat any meat with the blood still in it, nor are you to use enchantments, or practice sorcery.
“You are not to eat any blood, whether it is from a bird or an animal, in any of your dwellings.
but to write to them to abstain from the contamination of idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates—whatever your soul’s desire, according to the blessing Adonai your God has given you. Either the unclean or clean may eat of it, as they would a gazelle and or deer.
But you are not to eat the blood—you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood—for the blood is the life, and you are not to eat the life with the meat.
You are not to eat it—you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
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.”