Parallel Verses

King James Version

Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

New American Standard Bible

‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying.

Holman Bible

“You are not to eat anything with blood in it. You are not to practice divination or sorcery.

International Standard Version

"You are not to eat anything containing blood, engage in occult practices, or practice fortune telling.

A Conservative Version

Ye shall not eat anything with the blood. Neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practice augury.

American Standard Version

Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.

Amplified

‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination [using omens or witchcraft] or soothsaying.

Bible in Basic English

Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

Darby Translation

Ye shall eat nothing with the blood. Ye shall not practise enchantment, nor use auguries.

Julia Smith Translation

Ye shall not eat with the blood: ye shall not take auguries, and ye shall not practise magic.

King James 2000

You shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall you use divination, nor witchcraft.

Lexham Expanded Bible

" 'You must not eat [anything] with the blood; you shall not practice divination, nor shall you interpret signs.

Modern King James verseion

You shall not eat anything with the blood. You shall not divine, nor conjure spirits.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"'Ye shall eat nothing with the blood, ye shall use no witchcraft, nor observe dismal days.

NET Bible

"'You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.

New Heart English Bible

"'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you practice divination, nor practice sorcery.

The Emphasized Bible

Ye shall eat nothing with the blood thereof, - Ye shall not practise divination neither shall ye use magic.

Webster

Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

World English Bible

"'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

Youngs Literal Translation

'Ye do not eat with the blood; ye do not enchant, nor observe clouds.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Ye shall not eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

any thing with the blood
דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

Context Readings

Blood, Hair, And Body

25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God. 26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 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.

2 Kings 17:17

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Leviticus 3:17

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Leviticus 7:26

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

2 Kings 21:6

And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2 Chronicles 33:6

And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Exodus 7:11

Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.

Exodus 8:7

And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 17:10-14

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 cut him off from among his people.

Deuteronomy 18:10-14

There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Jeremiah 10:2

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Daniel 2:10

The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

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