Deuteronomy 12:16
New International Version
But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

New Living Translation
But you must not consume the blood. You must pour it out on the ground like water.

English Standard Version
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

Berean Standard Bible
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

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

New King James Version
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

New American Standard Bible
Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

NASB 1995
“Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

NASB 1977
“Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

Legacy Standard Bible
Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

Amplified Bible
Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

Christian Standard Bible
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

American Standard Version
Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Only the blood you will not eat, but pour it on the ground like water.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it out on the ground as water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

English Revised Version
Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But never eat the blood. Pour it on the ground like water.

Good News Translation
But you must not eat their blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

International Standard Version
Only, you must not consume the blood; instead, pour it out on the ground as you would water.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Literal Standard Version
Only, you do not eat the blood—you pour it on the earth as water;

Majority Standard Bible
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

New American Bible
Only, you shall not eat of the blood, but must pour it out on the ground like water.

NET Bible
However, you must not eat blood--pour it out on the ground like water.

New Revised Standard Version
The blood, however, you must not eat; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

New Heart English Bible
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

Webster's Bible Translation
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

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

Young's Literal Translation
'Only, the blood ye do not eat -- on the earth thou dost pour it as water;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
One Place for Worship
15But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer, 16but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. 17Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.…

Cross References
Acts 15:20
Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

Acts 15:29
You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

Genesis 9:4
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

Leviticus 7:26
You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.

Leviticus 17:10
If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17:13
And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.

Leviticus 19:26
You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.


Treasury of Scripture

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:23,24
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…

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

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

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Deuteronomy 12
1. Monuments of idolatry to be destroyed
4. The place of God's service to be kept
15. Blood is forbidden
17. Holy things must be eaten in the holy place
19. The Levite is not to be forsaken
20. Blood is again forbidden
26. and holy things must be eaten in the holy place
29. Idolatry is not to be enquired after














(16) Ye shall pour it upon the earth.--This act was a necessary part of every slaughter of an animal for food. The blood, which is the life, must be poured upon the earth for God, whether the victim was consigned to the altar or not. It was a continual reminder of the necessity for the sacrifice of the death of Christ, to be continued until He should come. Thus the act was, in a sense, sacramental.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
but
רַ֥ק (raq)
Adverb
Strong's 7535: But, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless

you must not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

eat
תֹאכֵ֑לוּ (ṯō·ḵê·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

the blood;
הַדָּ֖ם (had·dām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

pour
תִּשְׁפְּכֶ֖נּוּ (tiš·pə·ḵen·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 8210: To spill forth, to expend, to sprawl out

it on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the ground
הָאָ֥רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

like water.
כַּמָּֽיִם׃ (kam·mā·yim)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen


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