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Selected Verse: Deuteronomy 12:16 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| De 12:16 |
Strong Concordance |
Only ye shall not eat [0398] the blood [01818]; ye shall pour [08210] it upon the earth [0776] as water [04325]. |
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King James |
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
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. |
13 And whatsoever man [0376] there be of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], or of the strangers [01616] that sojourn [01481] among [08432] you, which hunteth [06679] and catcheth [06718] any beast [02416] or fowl [05775] that may be eaten [0398]; he shall even pour [08210] out the blood [01818] thereof, and cover [03680] it with dust [06083].
12 Therefore I said [0559] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478], No soul [05315] of you shall eat [0398] blood [01818], neither shall any stranger [01616] that sojourneth [01481] among [08432] you eat [0398] blood [01818].
4 But [0389] flesh [01320] with the life [05315] thereof, which is the blood [01818] thereof, shall ye not eat [0398].
16 Only ye shall not eat [0398] the blood [01818]; ye shall pour [08210] it upon the earth [0776] as water [04325].
17 Thou mayest [03201] not eat [0398] within thy gates [08179] the tithe [04643] of thy corn [01715], or of thy wine [08492], or of thy oil [03323], or the firstlings [01062] of thy herds [01241] or of thy flock [06629], nor any of thy vows [05088] which thou vowest [05087], nor thy freewill offerings [05071], or heave offering [08641] of thine hand [03027]:
18 But thou must eat [0398] them before [06440] the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] in the place [04725] which the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] shall choose [0977], thou, and thy son [01121], and thy daughter [01323], and thy manservant [05650], and thy maidservant [0519], and the Levite [03881] that is within thy gates [08179]: and thou shalt rejoice [08055] before [06440] the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] in all that thou puttest [04916] thine hands [03027] unto.
19 Take heed [08104] to thyself that thou forsake [05800] not the Levite [03881] as long as thou livest [03117] upon the earth [0127].
20 When the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] shall enlarge [07337] thy border [01366], as he hath promised [01696] thee, and thou shalt say [0559], I will eat [0398] flesh [01320], because thy soul [05315] longeth [0183] to eat [0398] flesh [01320]; thou mayest eat [0398] flesh [01320], whatsoever thy soul [05315] lusteth after [0185].
21 If the place [04725] which the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hath chosen [0977] to put [07760] his name [08034] there be too far [07368] from thee, then thou shalt kill [02076] of thy herd [01241] and of thy flock [06629], which the LORD [03068] hath given [05414] thee, as I have commanded [06680] thee, and thou shalt eat [0398] in thy gates [08179] whatsoever thy soul [05315] lusteth after [0185].
22 Even as the roebuck [06643] and the hart [0354] is eaten [0398], so thou shalt eat [0398] them: the unclean [02931] and the clean [02889] shall eat [0398] of them alike [03162].
23 Only be sure [02388] that thou eat [0398] not the blood [01818]: for the blood [01818] is the life [05315]; and thou mayest not eat [0398] the life [05315] with the flesh [01320].
24 Thou shalt not eat [0398] it; thou shalt pour [08210] it upon the earth [0776] as water [04325].
25 Thou shalt not eat [0398] it; that it may go well [03190] with thee, and with thy children [01121] after [0310] thee, when thou shalt do [06213] that which is right [03477] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068].