Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh;

New American Standard Bible

Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

International Standard Version

Only be sure to refrain from eating blood, because blood is the source of life and you must not consume blood with the meat.

A Conservative Version

Only be sure that thou not eat the blood. For the blood is the life, and thou shall not eat the life with the flesh.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life (soul), and you shall not eat the life with the meat.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

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;

Julia Smith Translation

Only be striving not to eat the blood, for the blood it is the soul; and thou. shalt not eat the soul with the flesh.

King James 2000

Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.

Modern King James verseion

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood. For the blood is the life. And you may not eat the life with the flesh.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But be strong that thou eat not the blood. For the blood, that is the life: and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh:

NET Bible

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself -- you must not eat the life with the meat!

New Heart English Bible

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

The Emphasized Bible

Howbeit firmly refrain from eating the blood; for the blood, is the life, - therefore must thou not eat the life with the flesh.

Webster

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.

World English 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
that thou eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

not the blood
דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

for the blood
דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

is the life
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

and thou mayest not eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

the life
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

22 only, as the roe and the hart is eaten, so dost thou eat it; the unclean and the clean doth alike eat it. 23 Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh; 24 thou dost not eat it, on the earth thou dost pour it as water;



Cross References

Leviticus 17:11

for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar, to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood which maketh atonement for the soul.

Genesis 9:4

only flesh in its life -- its blood -- ye do not eat.

Leviticus 17:13-14

and any man of the sons of Israel, or of the sojourners, who is sojourning in your midst, who hunteth venison, beast or fowl, which is eaten -- hath even poured out its blood, and hath covered it with dust;

Leviticus 3:16-17

and the priest hath made them a perfume on the altar -- bread of a fire-offering, for sweet fragrance; all the fat is Jehovah's.

Deuteronomy 12:16

Only, the blood ye do not eat -- on the earth thou dost pour it as water;

Matthew 20:28

even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

Revelation 5:9

and they sing a new song, saying, 'Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

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