Deuteronomy 12:16

Only ye shall not eat the blood. Thou shall pour it out upon the ground as water.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15Notwithstanding, thou may kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of LORD thy God which he has given thee, the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and

17Thou may not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy grain, or of thy new wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vow, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of

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Cross References

Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life of it, [which is] the blood of it, ye shall not eat.

Leviticus 7:26And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure that thou not eat the blood. For the blood is the life, and thou shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Acts 15:29to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, keeping yourselves from which, ye will do well. Be strong.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 12:6-32

Where Sacrifices Must Be Offered; Ceremonial Observances; Cautions Against Idolatrous Rites. ( b. c. 1451.) 5 But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: 7 And there ye… Read the whole commentary →

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