Deuteronomy 12:24

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

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

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.

25You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in the LORD’s eyes.

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Cross References

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

Deuteronomy 15:23Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like 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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