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Deuteronomy 12:16

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Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

Only ye shall not eat {H398} the blood {H1818}; ye shall pour {H8210} it upon the earth {H776} as water {H4325}.

But don't eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

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Cross-References

  • Genesis 9:4 (5 votes)

    But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

  • Deuteronomy 15:23 (4 votes)

    Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

  • Deuteronomy 12:23 (3 votes)

    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.

  • Deuteronomy 12:24 (3 votes)

    Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

  • Acts 15:29 (3 votes)

    That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

  • Leviticus 7:26 (2 votes)

    Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, [whether it be] of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

  • Leviticus 7:27 (2 votes)

    Whatsoever soul [it be] that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.