Deuteronomy 12:23

'Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood [is] the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

In Context

22only, as the roe and the hart is eaten, so dost thou eat it; the unclean and the clean doth alike eat it.

24thou dost not eat it, on the earth thou dost pour it as water;

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Cross References

Leviticus 3:16and the priest hath made them a perfume on the altar — bread of a fire-offering, for sweet fragrance; all the fat [is] Jehovah's.

Leviticus 17:13and any man of the sons of Israel, or of the sojourners, who is sojourning in your midst, who hunteth venison, beast or fowl, which is eaten — hath even poured out its blood, and hath covered it with dust;

Matthew 20:28even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

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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