Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
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Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
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Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
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Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 12:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 9:4 But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
- Deuteronomy 15:23 Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.
- Deuteronomy 12:23-24 Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat. You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
- Acts 15:29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
- Leviticus 7:26-27 You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’ ”
- Leviticus 17:10-13 “ ‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.” “ ‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.
- 1 Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood;…
Deu 12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Ver. 16. Only ye shall not eat.] {See Trapp on "Gen 9:4"}
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Only ye shall not eat the blood,.... All manner…
Only ye shall not eat the blood,.... All manner of blood being forbidden, of fowl or of beasts, whether slain for sacrifice or for common food:
ye shall pour it out upon the earth as water; which cannot be gathered up again for use, but is swallowed up in the earth.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Water, without any ceremony. It was afterwards to be…
Water, without any ceremony. It was afterwards to be covered, Leviticus xvii. 13.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain BLOOD PROHIBITED. (Deu 12:16-25)
BLOOD PROHIBITED. (Deu 12:16-25)
ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water--The prohibition against eating or drinking blood as an unnatural custom accompanied the announcement of the divine grant of animal flesh for food (Gen 9:4), and the prohibition was repeatedly renewed by Moses with reference to the great objects of the law (Lev 17:12), the prevention of idolatry, and the consecration of the sacrificial blood to God. In regard, however, to the blood of animals slain for food, it might be shed without ceremony and poured on the ground as a common thing like water--only for the sake of decency, as well as for preventing all risk of idolatry, it was to be covered over with earth (Lev 17:13), in opposition to the practice of heathen sportsmen, who left it exposed as an offering to the god of the chase.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Ye shall not eat the blood — These…
16. Ye shall not eat the blood — These directions are not to be deemed trivial or unimportant. “Even the inviolability of human life received support from the sanctity of blood. To taste the minutest portion of animal blood was something horrible; even the blood of such animals as were allowed for eating, but not for sacrifice, was to be poured like water upon the ground and covered over with earth.” — EWALD, Antiquities of Israel, English translation, p. 38.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) Ye shall pour it upon the earth.—This act…
(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.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 12:16 The prohibition against consuming blood pertained both to…
12:16 The prohibition against consuming blood pertained both to sacrificial animals and to those slain for meat. Because it represented life, blood was sacred and was to be rendered only to God. This principle is inherent in creation and preceded the law (Gen 4:10-11; 9:4-6; Lev 17:11). See also study note on Lev 7:26-27.
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