24You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.


In Context

21 If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.

22 Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.

23 But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

24 You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

25 Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord .

26 But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give, and go to the place the Lord will choose.

Deuteronomy 12:24 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:24Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:24But thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:24Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:24thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:24Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:24Thou shalt not eat it: thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:24thou dost not eat it, on the earth thou dost pour it as water;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth as water.