Deuteronomy 12:23
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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.Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
In other translations
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.Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
Hebrew words
רַקrakonlyH7535חֲזַקchazakbe strongH2388לְבִלְתִּיleviltito notH1115אֲכֹל'akholto eatH398הַדָּםhadamthe bloodH1818כִּיkiforH3588הַדָּםhadamthe bloodH1818הוּאhu'itH1931הַנָּפֶשׁhanafesh[is] the lifeH5315וְלֹא־velo'-and notH3808תֹאכַלtokhalyou must eatH398הַנֶּפֶשׁhanefeshthe lifeH5315עִם־'im-withH5973הַבָּשָׂר׃habasarthe meatH1320
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Related verses
- Leviticus 17:11For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
- Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
- Leviticus 17:13-1413 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 thereof, and cover it with dust. 14 For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.13 And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt. 14 For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.’
- Deuteronomy 12:16Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Leviticus 3:16-1716 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the Lord’s. 17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.16 Then the priest is to burn the food on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD’s. 17 This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
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