Deuteronomy 12:16

Only all of you shall not eat the blood; all of you shall pour it upon the earth as water.

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

In Context

15Notwithstanding you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatsoever your soul lusts after, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

17You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your corn, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herds or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, or heave offering of yours hand:

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Cross References

Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall all of you not eat.

Leviticus 7:26Moreover all of you shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.

Acts 15:29That all of you abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if all of you keep yourselves, all of you shall do well. Fare all of you well.

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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