Deuteronomy 12:24
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 12:24 in other translations
| BSB | You must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. |
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| WEB | You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water. |
| ASV | Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. |
| YLT | thou dost not eat it, on the earth thou dost pour it as water; |
| DARBY | thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water: |
| BBE | Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water. |
| Webster | Thou shalt not eat it: thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. |
What does Deuteronomy 12:24 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…
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 12:24 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 12:24
- Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
- Deuteronomy 15:23
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
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Context
- 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 12:25
Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 12:24 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No la comerás: en tierra la derramarás como agua. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu n’en mangeras pas, tu le verseras sur la terre, comme de l’eau. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | du sollst es nicht essen, du sollst es auf die Erde gießen wie Wasser; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | sed super terram fundes quasi aquam, |