Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
International Standard Version
Only, you must not consume the blood; instead, pour it out on the ground as you would water.
A Conservative Version
Only ye shall not eat the blood. Thou shall pour it out upon the ground as water.
American Standard Version
Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
Amplified
Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
Bible in Basic English
But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
Darby Translation
Only, ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Julia Smith Translation
Only the blood thou shalt not eat: upon the earth ye shall pour it as water.
King James 2000
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Only the blood you must not eat, [but] on the ground you must pour it like water.
Modern King James verseion
Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the earth like water.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
only eat not the blood, but pour it upon the earth as water.
NET Bible
However, you must not eat blood -- pour it out on the ground like water.
New Heart English Bible
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
The Emphasized Bible
Howbeit, the blood, shall ye not eat, - upon the earth, shalt thou pour it out, like water.
Webster
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
World English Bible
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.
Youngs Literal Translation
Only, the blood ye do not eat -- on the earth thou dost pour it as water;
Themes
Beasts » Not to be eaten alive or with blood
Blood » Forbidden to be used as food
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 12:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
15
“But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates,
Cross References
Genesis 9:4
However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.
Deuteronomy 15:23
But you must not eat its blood; pour it on the ground like water.
Acts 15:29
that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.
Farewell.
Leviticus 7:26-27
Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood
Leviticus 17:10-13
“Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who live among them who eats any blood,
Deuteronomy 12:23-24
But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
1 Timothy 4:4
For everything created by God is good,