Deuteronomy 12:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.”
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BSBPD
“but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“`Only, the blood ye do not eat--on the earth thou dost pour it as water;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 12:16 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 9:4But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
- Leviticus 3:17This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
- Leviticus 7:26You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.
- Leviticus 17:10If 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.
- Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
- Deuteronomy 15:23But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Acts 15:29You 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.
- 1 Timothy 4:4For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
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