Psalms 50:13

New Living Translation

Do I eat the meat of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats?

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

New King James Version
Will 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?

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

World English Bible
Will 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?

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thynkest thou, that I wil eate the flesh of oxen, or drynke the bloude of goates?

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

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 English Translation
Do I eat the flesh of bulls? Do I 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Christian Standard Bible®
Do 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?

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

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

Contextual Overview

⁷ "O my people, listen as I speak. Here are my charges against you, O Israel: I am God, your God! ⁸ I have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly offer. ⁹ But I do not need the bulls from your barns or the goats from your pens. ¹⁰ For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a thousand hills. ¹¹ I know every bird on the mountains, and all the animals of the field are mine. ¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for all the world is mine and everything in it. ¹³ Do I eat the meat of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴ Make thankfulness your sacrifice to God, and keep the vows you made to the Most High. ¹⁵ Then call on me when you are in trouble, and I will rescue you, and you will give me glory."

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 field and the cave were transferred from the Hittites to Abraham for use as a permanent burial place.

Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.

Genesis 35:27
So Jacob returned to his father, Isaac, in Mamre, which is near Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had both lived as foreigners.

Genesis 35:29
Then he breathed his last and died at a ripe old age, joining his ancestors in death. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.

Genesis 50:16
So they sent this message to Joseph: "Before your father died, he instructed us

Genesis 50:18
Then his brothers came and threw themselves down before Joseph. "Look, we are your slaves!" they said.

2 Kings 21:18
When Manasseh died, he was buried in the palace garden, the garden of Uzza. Then his son Amon became the next king.

Acts 7:16
Their bodies were taken to Shechem and buried in the tomb Abraham had bought for a certain price from Hamor's sons in Shechem.

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.