Deuteronomy 12:16

But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.

17In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;

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Cross References

Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

Leviticus 7:26And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

Deuteronomy 12:23But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

Acts 15:29To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

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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