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.
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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.
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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.
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Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 12:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 17:11 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.
- Genesis 9:4 But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
- Leviticus 17:13-14 “ ‘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. For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”
- Leviticus 3:16-17 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is Yahweh’s. “ ‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”
- Deuteronomy 12:16 Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, be strong or constant.
Hebrew, be strong or constant.
Because the life of beasts is in their blood.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The blood is the life; of which See Poole…
The blood is the life; of which See Poole on "Gen 9:4". See Poole on "Lev 17:11". The animal life depends upon the blood.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Only be sure that thou eat not the blood,....…
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood,.... This is repeated again, that they might be careful to observe the law concerning that:
for the blood is the life: which is the reason given for the prohibition of it; see Gill on Lev 17:11,
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and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh: by which it seems that the meaning of the law was, that the blood might not be eaten in or with the flesh, but to be let out of it, or the fish not to be eaten raw, but dressed; for there were various laws about eating of blood, which are differently expressed.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 23. For the blood is the life] And…
Verse 23. For the blood is the life] And the life being offered as an atonement, consequently the blood should not be eaten. See Clarke on Le 17:11, where the subject of the vitality of the blood is largely considered.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Soul. See Genesis ix. 4. Blood maintains the life…
Soul. See Genesis ix. 4. Blood maintains the life of animals, and it would seem cruel to begin to eat them before they were perfectly dead. But the obligation of this positive law has long ago ceased, as it was intended chiefly for the Jews.
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).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 23. Be sure that thou eat not the blood…
23. Be sure that thou eat not the blood — Be firm in resisting any inclination to so doing.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 the blood is the life
the blood is the life
Here the way that blood sustains life is spoken of as if the blood were life itself. AT: "the blood sustains life" or "the blood causes animals and people to live" (See: Metaphor)
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you will not eat the life with the meat
The word "life" here represents the blood that sustains life. AT: "You will not eat what sustains life with the meat" or "you will not eat the blood, which sustains life, with the meat" (See: Metonymy)
what is right in the eyes of Yahweh
The eyes represent seeing, and seeing represents thoughts or judgment. AT: "what is right in Yahweh's judgment" or "what Yahweh considers to be right" (See: Metaphor)
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consume
blood
life
earth
water
Yahweh
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 12:23 the blood is the life: In this figure…
12:23 the blood is the life: In this figure of speech, the means (blood) is equated with the effect (life). Since life is sacred, its vehicle, the blood, is also sacred (see also Lev 17:11).
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