Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
New American Standard Bible
Only
King James Version
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
Holman Bible
But you must not eat its blood; pour it on the ground like water.
International Standard Version
Only you must not eat its blood. Pour it on the ground like water."
A Conservative Version
Only thou shall not eat the blood of it. Thou shall pour it out upon the ground as water.
American Standard Version
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.
Amplified
Only you shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
Darby Translation
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof: thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
Julia Smith Translation
Only its blood thou shalt not eat: upon the earth shalt thou pour it as water.
King James 2000
Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water."
Modern King James verseion
Only you shall not eat the blood of it. You shall pour it on the ground like water.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Only eat not the blood thereof, but pour it upon the ground as water.
NET Bible
However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.
New Heart English Bible
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
The Emphasized Bible
Only the blood thereof, shalt thou not eat, - on the earth, shalt thou pour it out like water.
Webster
Only thou shalt not eat its blood; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
World English Bible
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.
Youngs Literal Translation
Only, its blood thou dost not eat; on the earth thou dost pour it as water.
Themes
Blood » Forbidden to be used as food
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 15:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Consecration Of Firstborn Animals
22 It may be used for food in your houses: the unclean and the clean may take of it, as of the gazelle and the roe. 23 Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:16
But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
Leviticus 7:26
And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.
Deuteronomy 12:23
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.
1 Samuel 14:32
And rushing at the goods taken in the fight, the people took oxen and sheep and young oxen, and put them to death there on the earth, and had a meal, taking the flesh with the blood in it.
Ezekiel 33:25
For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?