Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Only the blood thou shalt not eat: upon the earth ye shall pour it as water.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Holman Bible
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
International Standard Version
Only, you must not consume the blood; instead, pour it out on the ground as you would water.
A Conservative Version
Only ye shall not eat the blood. Thou shall pour it out upon the ground as water.
American Standard Version
Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
Amplified
Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
Bible in Basic English
But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
Darby Translation
Only, ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
King James 2000
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Only the blood you must not eat, [but] on the ground you must pour it like water.
Modern King James verseion
Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the earth like water.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
only eat not the blood, but pour it upon the earth as water.
NET Bible
However, you must not eat blood -- pour it out on the ground like water.
New Heart English Bible
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
The Emphasized Bible
Howbeit, the blood, shall ye not eat, - upon the earth, shalt thou pour it out, like water.
Webster
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
World English Bible
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
Youngs Literal Translation
Only, the blood ye do not eat -- on the earth thou dost pour it as water;
Themes
Beasts » Not to be eaten alive or with blood
Blood » Forbidden to be used as food
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 12:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
15 Only in all the desire of thy soul thou shalt sacrifice and eat flesh according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he gave to thee in all thy gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it, as the roe and as the stag. 16 Only the blood thou shalt not eat: upon the earth ye shall pour it as water. 17 Thou shalt not be able to eat in thy gates the tenth of thy grain, and thy new wine and thy new oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and thy flocks, and all the vows which thou shalt vow, and thy voluntaries, and the offerings of thy hand:
Cross References
Genesis 9:4
But the flesh with its breath, its blood ye shall not eat
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only its blood thou shalt not eat: upon the earth shalt thou pour it as water.
Acts 15:29
To keep off from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and strangulation, and harlotry: from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Leviticus 7:26-27
And any blood ye shall not eat in any of your dwellings, of fowl, and of cattle.
Leviticus 17:10-13
And a man, a man from the house of Israel, and from the stranger sojourning in the midst of you, who shall eat any blood; and I gave my face against the soul eating the blood, and I cut it off from the midst of its people.
Deuteronomy 12:23-24
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.
1 Timothy 4:4
For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks: