Deuteronomy 12:24

Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

In Context

23Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.

25Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.

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Cross References

Leviticus 3:17It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.

Deuteronomy 15:23Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

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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