Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth 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.
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.
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.
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 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart. 16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water. 17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;
Cross References
Genesis 9:4
But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
Acts 15:29
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
Leviticus 7:26-27
You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 17:10-13
"'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Deuteronomy 12:23-24
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.
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.