Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
Parallel translations
- KJV Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
- BSB but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- NKJV Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.
- NASB Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
- NLT But you must not consume the blood. You must pour it out on the ground like water.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Gen 9:4But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
- Deut 15:23Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.
- Acts 15:29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
- Deut 12:23–24Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the meat.
- Lev 17:10–13“‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
- 1 Tim 4:4For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
- Lev 7:26–27You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
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