Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
Only be sure
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.
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.
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;
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 12:23
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Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
22 It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it. 23 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. 24 Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
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Cross References
Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.
Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
Leviticus 17:13-14
And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth.
Leviticus 3:16-17
That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet smell: all the fat is the Lord's.
Deuteronomy 12:16
But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.
Revelation 5:9
And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,