Deuteronomy 12:16

Deuteronomy 12:16 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
• New International Version (NIV)But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

Context of Deuteronomy 12:16

14but only in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes: there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do everything that I command you. 15“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as the gazelle and the deer. Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water. 17You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, new wine, or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your vowed offerings which you vow, or your voluntary offerings, or the contribution of your hand. 18But you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all your undertakings.

Deuteronomy 12:16 word by word

רַ֥ק הַדָּ֖ם לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֑לוּ עַל־הָאָ֥רֶץ תִּשְׁפְּכֶ֖נּוּ כַּמָּֽיִם׃Read the interlinear

• you shall not eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• the bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
• you are to pourשָׁפַךְshâphak · to pour: pourH8210
• it outשָׁפַךְshâphak · to pour: pourH8210
• on the groundאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: soilH776
• like waterמַיmayim · waterH4325

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 12:16

• Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
• Deuteronomy 15:23Only you shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
• Genesis 9:4But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
• Leviticus 7:26And you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.
• Leviticus 17:10‘And anyone from the house of Israel, or from the strangers who reside among them, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats the blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
• Acts 15:29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from acts of sexual immorality; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”
• 1 Timothy 4:4For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 12:16

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-32Verses 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 sought him. Now, under the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16The rule against eating blood applied to both sacrificial animals and those killed for food. Blood represented life, so it was holy and belonged only to God. This principle existed from the beginning of creation and came before the law was given (Genesis 4:10–11; 9:4–6; Leviticus 17:11). See also study note on Leviticus 7:26–27.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2516. ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water--The prohibition against eating or drinking blood as an unnatural custom accompanied the announcement of the divine grant of animal flesh for food (Ge 9:4), and the prohibition was repeatedly renewed by Moses with reference to the great objects of the law (Le 17:12), the prevention of idolatry, and the consecration of the sacrificial blood to God. In regard, however, to the blood of…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings