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Deuteronomy 12:16

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

KJV

absque esu dumtaxat sanguinis, quem super terram quasi aquam effundes.

Vulgate

πλὴν τὸ αἷμα οὐ φάγεσθε, ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἐκχεεῖτε αὐτὸ ὡς ὕδωρ.

LXX

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

ASV

רַ֥ק הַ/דָּ֖ם לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֑לוּ עַל הָ/אָ֥רֶץ תִּשְׁפְּכֶ֖/נּוּ כַּ/מָּֽיִם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
וֹ
v
noun · 356×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 811×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
רַ֣ק
rq
adverb · 109×
שְׁפָךְ
shpk
verb · 115×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 14:32 — And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
  • Acts 15:20 — But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
  • Acts 15:29 — 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.
  • Deut 12:23 — 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.
  • Deut 12:23 — 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.
  • Deut 15:23 — Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
  • Deut 15:23 — Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
  • Ezek 24:7 — For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
  • Ezek 33:25 — Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
  • Gen 9:4 — But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
  • Gen 9:4 — But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
  • Lev 3:17 — It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
  • Lev 17:10 — And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will c
  • Lev 17:13 — And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood ther