Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then the people gat them to the spoil and took sheep oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground and did eat with the blood.

New American Standard Bible

The people rushed greedily upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

King James Version

And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

Holman Bible

they rushed to the plunder, took sheep, cattle, and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and ate meat with the blood still in it.

International Standard Version

The army grabbed the spoil, took sheep, oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground, and then the army ate them with the blood.

A Conservative Version

and the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and killed them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.

American Standard Version

and the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people did eat them with the blood.

Amplified

[When night came and the oath ended] the people rushed greedily upon the spoil. They took sheep, oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and they ate them [raw] with the blood [still in them].

Bible in Basic English

And rushing at the goods taken in the fight, the people took oxen and sheep and young oxen, and put them to death there on the earth, and had a meal, taking the flesh with the blood in it.

Darby Translation

And the people fell on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

Julia Smith Translation

And the people will make to the spoil, and they will take sheep and oxen, and the young of oxen, and they will slaughter on the earth: and the people will eat upon the blood.

King James 2000

And the people rushed upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then the troops took the plunder: they took sheep and cattle and {calves} and slaughtered [them] on the ground and the troops ate [them all] with the blood.

Modern King James verseion

And the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and killed them on the ground. And the people ate with the blood.

NET Bible

So the army rushed greedily on the plunder, confiscating sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them right on the ground, and the army ate them blood and all.

New Heart English Bible

and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

The Emphasized Bible

And the people darted greedily upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and felled them to the ground, - and the people did eat, with the blood.

Webster

And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the blood.

World English Bible

and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

Youngs Literal Translation

and the people make unto the spoil, and take sheep, and oxen, and sons of the herd, and slaughter on the earth, and the people eat with the blood.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

עיט 
`iyt 
Usage: 2

upon the spoil
שׁלל 
Shalal 
Usage: 73

and took
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

צאון צאןo 
Tso'n 
Usage: 274

and oxen
בּקר 
Baqar 
Usage: 183

and slew
שׁחט 
Shachat 
Usage: 81

them on the ground
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

and the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

References

Context Readings

Saul's Oath Leads To Trouble

31 And they laid on the Philistines that day, from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were exceeding fainty. 32 Then the people gat them to the spoil and took sheep oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground and did eat with the blood. 33 Then men told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood." And he said, "Ye have trespassed. But roll a great stone unto me now,

Cross References

Leviticus 3:17

and it shall be a law forever among your generations after you in your dwelling places: that ye eat neither fat nor blood."'

1 Samuel 15:19

And wherefore hast thou now not obeyed the voice of the LORD: But didst turn to the prey and hast wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD?"

Genesis 9:4

Only: the flesh with his life, which is his blood, see that ye eat not.

Leviticus 17:10-14

And whatsoever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will destroy him from among his people,

Leviticus 19:26

"'Ye shall eat nothing with the blood, ye shall use no witchcraft, nor observe dismal days.

Deuteronomy 12:16

only eat not the blood, but pour it upon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:23-24

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:

Acts 15:20

but that we write unto them, that they abstain themselves from filthiness of images, from fornication, from strangled, and from blood.

Leviticus 7:26-27

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, wheresoever ye dwell, whether it be of fowl or of beast.

Ezekiel 33:25

And therefore tell them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: In the blood have ye eaten, your eyes have ye lift up to Idols, and have shed blood: shall ye then have the land in possession?

Acts 15:29

that is to say: that ye abstain from things offered to images, from blood, from strangled and fornication. From which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. So fare ye well."

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