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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)But you must not consume the blood. You must pour it out on the ground like water.

Context of Deuteronomy 12:16

14Offer them only at the place the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you. 15Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the Lord your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it. But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water. 17You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and olive oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts. 18Instead, you are to 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 male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you put your hand to.

Deuteronomy 12:16 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Only ye shall not eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• the bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
• ye shall pourשָׁפַךְshâphak · to pour: pourH8210
• it upon the earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: soilH776
• as waterמַיmayim · waterH4325

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 12:16

• Deuteronomy 12:23But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
• Deuteronomy 15:23But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
• Genesis 9:4“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
• Leviticus 7:26And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
• Leviticus 17:10“ ‘I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off from the people.
• Acts 15:29You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
• 1 Timothy 4:4For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

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