Deuteronomy
King James Version (KJV)
Deuteronomy 12:23
“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
Deuteronomy 12:23 Context
20When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 21If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. 22Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. 24Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. 25Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD. 26Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
"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 12:23 KJV Similar Verses Save
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Translation Details for Deuteronomy 12:23
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.
Other Translations for Deuteronomy 12:23
Bible Commentary for Deuteronomy 12:23
Wesley's Notes for Deuteronomy 12:23
12:21 If the place be too far - Being obliged to carry their sacrifices to the place of worship, they might think themselves obliged to carry their other cattle thither to be killed. They are therefore released from all such obligations, and left at liberty to kill them at home, whether they lived nearer that place, or farther from it; only the latter is here mentioned, as being the matter of the scruple. As I have commanded - In such a manner as the blood may be poured forth.
12:22 As the roe - buck - As common or unhallowed food, tho' they be of the same kind with the sacrifices which are offered to God. The unclean - Because there was, no holiness in such meat for which the unclean might be excluded from it.
Onely be sure that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eate the life with the flesh.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.
- American Standard Version (1901)
But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.
- Basic English Bible
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;
- Darby Bible
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.
- Webster's Bible
Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
- World English Bible
`Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood [is] the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh;
- Youngs Literal Bible
Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible