Psalms 50:13

Myles Coverdale Bible

Thynkest thou, that I wil eate the flesh of oxen, or drynke the bloude of goates?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Do I eat the flesh of bullsor drink the blood of goats?

Hebrew Names Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

King James Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

English Standard Version
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

New Century Version
I don't eat the meat of bulls or drink the blood of goats.

New English Translation
Do I eat the flesh of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats?

Amplified Bible
"Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats?

New American Standard Bible
"Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats?

World English Bible
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates?

Legacy Standard Bible
Shall I eat the flesh of bullsOr drink the blood of male goats?

Berean Standard Bible
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Contemporary English Version
I don't eat the meat of bulls or drink the blood of goats.

Complete Jewish Bible
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

Darby Translation
Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?

Easy-to-Read Version
I don't eat the meat of bulls or drink the blood of goats."

George Lamsa Translation
I eat not the flesh of bulls, neither do I drink the blood of goats.

Good News Translation
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

Lexham English Bible
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

Literal Translation
Will I eat the flesh of mighty ones , and will I drink the blood of he-goats?

American Standard Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

Bible in Basic English
Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

King James Version (1611)
Will I eate the flesh of bulles, or drinke the blood of goats?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thinkest thou that I will eate bulles fleshe: and drynke the blood of goates?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

English Revised Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether Y schal eete the fleischis of boolis? ethir schal Y drynke the blood of geet buckis?

Update Bible Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

Webster's Bible Translation
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

New King James Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

New Living Translation
Do I eat the meat of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats?

New Life Bible
Should I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of male goats?

New Revised Standard
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(49-13) Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?

Revised Standard Version
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Young's Literal Translation
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats?

Contextual Overview

⁷ Sela. Heare, o my people: let me speake, let me testifie amonge you, o Israel: I am God, euen thy God. ⁸ I reproue the not because of thy sacrifice, yi burntofferinges are allwaye before me. ⁹ I wil take no bullockes out of thy house, ner gotes out of thy foldes. ¹⁰ For all the beestes of the felde are myne, and thousandes of catell vpon the hilles. ¹¹ I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes, and the wilde beastes of the felde are in my sight. ¹² Yf I be hongrie, I wil not tell the: for ye whole worlde is myne, and all that therin is. ¹³ Thynkest thou, that I wil eate the flesh of oxen, or drynke the bloude of goates? ¹⁴ Offre vnto God prayse and thankesgeuynge, and paye thy vowes vnto the most hyest. ¹⁵ And call vpo me in the tyme of trouble, so wil I heare the, that thou shalt thanke me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:12 - a thanksgiving Deuteronomy 32:38 - eat the fat Deuteronomy 33:19 - they shall Psalms 69:31 - also shall John 4:24 - must Romans 12:1 - that ye

Cross-References

Genesis 23:20
So the felde and the caue therin was made sure of the Hethites vnto Abraham, for a possession to bury in.

Genesis 25:9
And his sonnes Isaac and Ismael buried him in the dubble caue in the felde of Ephron the sonne of Zoar the Hethite, which lyeth ouer before Mamre,

Genesis 35:27
And he came to his father Isaac to Mamre in to the head cite which is called Hebron, where in Abraha & Isaac were straugers.

Genesis 35:29
& fell sicke, and dyed, & was gathered vnto his people, whan he was olde, & had lyued ynough: and his sonnes Esau & Iacob buried him.

Genesis 50:16
therfore let they saye vnto him: Thy father commaunded before his death, and sayde:

Genesis 50:18
And his brethren wente, and fell downe before him, and sayde: Beholde, here are we thy seruauntes.

2 Kings 21:18
And Manasses fell on slepe with his fathers, and was buried in the garden besyde his house, namely, in the garden of Vsa, and Amon his sonne was kynge in his steade.

Acts 7:16
and were brought ouer vnto Siche, and layed in the sepulcre, that Abraham boughte for money of the children of Hemor at Sichem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?] That is, express a pleasure, take delight and satisfaction, in such kind of sacrifices, which can never take away sin: no, I will not; wherefore other sacrifices, more agreeable to his nature, mind, and will, and to the Gospel dispensation, are next mentioned.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? - This is said to show still further the absurdity of the views which seem to have prevailed among those who offered sacrifices. They offered them “as if” they were needed by God; “as if” they laid him under obligation; “as if” in some way they contributed to his happiness, or were essential to his welfare. The only supposition on which this could be true was, that he needed the flesh of the one for food, and the blood of the other for drink; or that he was sustained as creatures are. Yet this was a supposition, which, when it was stated in a formal manner, must be at once seen to be absurd; and hence the emphatic question in this verse. It may serve to illustrate this, also, to remark, that, among the pagan, the opinion did undoubtedly prevail that the gods ate and drank what was offered to them in sacrifice; whereas the truth was, that these things were consumed by the priests who attended on pagan altars, and conducted the devotions of pagan temples, and who found that it contributed much to their own support, and did much to secure the liberality of the people, to keep up the impression that what was thus offered was consumed by the gods. God appeals here to his own people in this earnest manner because it was to be presumed that “they” had higher conceptions of him than the pagan had; and that, enlightened as they were, they could not for a moment suppose these offerings necessary for him. This is one of the passages in the Old Testament which imply that God is a Spirit, and that, as such, he is to be worshipped in spirit and in truth. Compare John 4:24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 50:13. Will I eat the flesh of bulls — Can ye be so simple as to suppose that I appointed such sacrifices for my own gratification? All these were significative of a spiritual worship, and of the sacrifice of that Lamb of God which, in the fulness of time, was to take away, in an atoning manner, the sin of the world.