Deuteronomy 12:16
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
In context
14 you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.
15 But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
16 but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
17 Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
18 Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,
Deuteronomy 12:16 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- KJV King James Version
- Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
- WEB World English Bible
- Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'Only, the blood ye do not eat — on the earth thou dost pour it as water;
- DBY Darby Translation
- Only, ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.