23Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.


In Context

20 When the LORD your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul lusts after.

21 If the place which the LORD your God has chosen to put his name there be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatever your soul lusts after.

22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so you shall eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

23 Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.

24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth as water.

25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 12:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:23Only beware of this, that thou eat not the blood, for the blood is for the soul: and therefore thou must not eat the soul with the flesh:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:23Only, be sure that thou eat not the blood; for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:23Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:23Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh;