16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth as water.


In Context

13 Take heed to yourself that you offer not your burnt offerings in every place that you see:

14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

15 Notwithstanding you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatever your soul lusts after, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth as water.

17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your corn, or of your wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herds or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, or heave offering of your hand:

18 But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hands to.

Deuteronomy 12:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:16Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:16But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:16Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:16Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16Only, ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:16Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:16Only, the blood ye do not eat — on the earth thou dost pour it as water;