Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Only the blood you must not eat, [but] on the ground you must pour it like 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.
Julia Smith Translation
Only the blood thou shalt not eat: upon the earth ye shall pour it as water.
King James 2000
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the earth as 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 "But {whenever you desire} you may slaughter, and you may eat meat according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you in all [of] your {towns}; the unclean and the clean may eat it [just] as [they would] the gazelle and as the deer. 16 Only the blood you must not eat, [but] on the ground you must pour it like water. 17 You are not allowed to eat in your {towns} the tithe of your grain and your wine and your olive oil and the firstborn of your herd and your flock and all [of] your votive gifts that you vowed and your freewill offering and {your donations}.
Cross References
Genesis 9:4
Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.
Deuteronomy 15:23
But you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water."
Acts 15:29
[that you] abstain from food sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. [If you] keep yourselves from {these things} you will do well. Farewell.
Leviticus 7:26-27
And in any of your dwellings, you must not eat any blood {belonging to} birds or domestic animals.
Leviticus 17:10-13
And [if there is] {anyone} from the house of Israel or from the alien who is dwelling in their midst who eats any blood, then I will set my face against the person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people.
Deuteronomy 12:23-24
Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
1 Timothy 4:4
because everything created by God [is] good and nothing [is to be] rejected [if it is] received with thankfulness,