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Deuteronomy 12:23

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself—you must not eat the life with the meat!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blood;   Sanitation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beasts;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Tithe;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Nature;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Life;   Psalms, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Life;   Soul;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Food;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Calf;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Blood;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - High places;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Life;   Soul;   Sure;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Blood;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandments, the 613;   Ishmael of Akbara;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Only be strong in yourselves not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But be strong, that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eate the life with the fleshe.
Easy-to-Read Version
But be especially careful not to eat the blood, because the life is in the blood. You must not eat meat that still has its life in it.
Revised Standard Version
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.
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.
King James Version (1611)
Onely be sure that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eate the life with the flesh.
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Onely bewarre, that thou eate not the bloude: for the bloude is the life. Therfore shalt thou not eate the life wt the flesh,
THE MESSAGE
Only this: Absolutely no blood. Don't eat the blood. Blood is life; don't eat the life with the meat. Don't eat it; pour it out on the ground like water. Don't eat it; then you'll have a good life, you and your children after you. By all means, do the right thing in God 's eyes.
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.
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.
Update Bible Version
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.
Webster's Bible 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.
New King James Version
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat.
Contemporary English Version
But don't eat the blood. It is the life of the animal, so let it drain out on the ground before you eat the meat.
Complete Jewish Bible
Just take care not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you are not to 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;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Onely bee sure that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou maiest not eate the life with the flesh.
George Lamsa Translation
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.
Good News Translation
Only do not eat meat with blood still in it, for the life is in the blood, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
Amplified Bible
"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.
Hebrew Names Version
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.
New Living Translation
But never consume the blood, for the blood is the life, and you must not consume the lifeblood with the meat.
New Life Bible
Only be sure not to eat the blood. For the blood is the life. You must not eat the life with the flesh.
New Revised Standard
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 meat.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Take diligent heed that thou eat no blood, for blood is the life of it; the life shall not be eaten with the flesh.
English Revised 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.
Berean Standard Bible
Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
J.B. Rotherham 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.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:
Lexham English 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.
Literal Translation
Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh;
English Standard Version
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.
New American Standard Bible
"Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
New Century Version
but be sure you don't eat the blood, because the life is in the blood. Don't eat the life with the meat.
Christian Standard Bible®
But don't eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oneli eschewe thou this, that thou ete not blood; for the blood `of tho beestis is for the lijf, and therfor thou owist not ete the lijf with fleischis,
Young's 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;

Contextual Overview

5 But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there. 6 And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 7 Both you and your families must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you. 8 You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone doing what seems best to him, 9 for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you. 10 When you do go across the Jordan River and settle in the land he is granting you as an inheritance and you find relief from all the enemies who surround you, you will live in safety. 11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you—your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. 12 You shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you). 13 Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish, 14 for you may do so only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas—there you may do everything I am commanding you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sure: Heb. strong

the blood is: Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 3:16, Leviticus 3:17, Leviticus 17:11, Leviticus 17:14, Matthew 20:28, Revelation 5:9

Reciprocal: Leviticus 17:10 - that eateth Leviticus 19:26 - with the blood Deuteronomy 12:16 - General Deuteronomy 15:23 - General 1 Samuel 14:32 - did eat Acts 15:20 - things

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood,.... This is repeated again, that they might be careful to observe the law concerning that:

for the blood is the life: which is the reason given for the prohibition of it, :-,

and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh: by which it seems that the meaning of the law was, that the blood might not be eaten in or with the flesh, but to be let out of it, or the fish not to be eaten raw, but dressed; for there were various laws about eating of blood, which are differently expressed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 12:23. For the blood is the life — And the life being offered as an atonement, consequently the blood should not be eaten. Leviticus 17:11, where the subject of the vitality of the blood is largely considered.


 
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