Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 12:23
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Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
22 Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so you shall eat them. The unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23 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. 24 You shall not eat it. You shall pour it on the earth like water.
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Cross References
Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I have given it to you on the altar to make an atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul.
Genesis 9:4
But you shall not eat of flesh with the life in it, or the blood of it.
Leviticus 17:13-14
And any man of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that are staying among you, who hunts game, beast or fowl, that may be eaten, he shall even pour out its blood and cover it with dust.
Leviticus 3:16-17
And the priest shall burn them on the altar, bread of the fire offering for a sweet savor. All the fat is Jehovah's.
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the earth like water.
Matthew 20:28
even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.
Revelation 5:9
And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation.