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.
Deuteronomy 12:23 in other translations
| BSB | Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. |
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| WEB | Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat. |
| ASV | Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh. |
| YLT | ‘Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh; |
| DARBY | 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; |
| BBE | But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Deuteronomy 12:23 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 12:22-28
22-28. Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them, &c.--Game when procured in the wilderness had not been required to be brought to the door of the tabernacle. The people were now to be as free in the killing of domestic cattle as of wild animals. The permission to hunt and use venison for food was doubtless a great boon to the Israelites, not only in the wilderness, but on their settlement in…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 12:5-32
The command to bring ALL the sacrifices to the door of the tabernacle, was now explained with reference to the promised land. As to moral service, then, as now, men might pray and worship every where, as they did in their synagogues. The place which God would choose, is said to be the place where he would put his name. It was to be his habitation, where, as King of Israel, he would be found by all who reverently…
Deuteronomy 12:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 12:23
- Leviticus 17:11
For 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.
- Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
- Leviticus 17:13-14
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. 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.
- Leviticus 3:16-17
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. It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
- Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 12:22
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 12:24
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 12:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Solamente que te esfuerces á no comer sangre: porque la sangre es el alma; y no has de comer el alma juntamente con su carne. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Seulement, tiens ferme à ne pas manger le sang, car le sang est la vie; et tu ne mangeras pas l’âme avec la chair. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Nur halte daran fest, kein Blut zu essen, denn das Blut ist die Seele; und du sollst nicht die Seele mit dem Fleische essen; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Hoc solum cave, ne sanguinem comedas: sanguis enim eorum pro anima est, et idcirco non debes animam comedere cum carnibus: |