Deuteronomy 12:16

Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

15Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the LORD your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

17You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free will offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;

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Cross References

Genesis 9:4But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

Leviticus 7:26You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.

Acts 15:29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

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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