Context 16Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water. 17You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand. 18But you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all your undertakings. 19Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. 20When the LORD your God extends your border as He has promised you, and you say, I will eat meat, because you desire to eat meat, then you may eat meat, whatever you desire. 21If the place which the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates whatever you desire. 22Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it. 23Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. 24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water. 25You shall not eat it, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the LORD. 26Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses. 27And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh. 28Be careful to listen to all these words which I command you, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God. 29When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, 30beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise? 31You shall not behave thus toward the LORD your God, for every abominable act which the LORD hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. 32Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it. Parallel Verses American Standard VersionOnly ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. Douay-Rheims Bible Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. Darby Bible Translation Only, ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. English Revised Version Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. Webster's Bible Translation Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. World English Bible Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water. Young's Literal Translation 'Only, the blood ye do not eat -- on the earth thou dost pour it as water; Library The Eating of the Peace-Offering'But thou must eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.'--DEUT. xii. 18. There were three bloody sacrifices, the sin-offering, the burnt- offering, and the peace-offering. In all three expiation was the first idea, but in the second of them the act … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Exposition of the Moral Law. The Promise in 2 Samuel, Chap. vii. The King --Continued. The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire The Privilege of Prayer Deuteronomy Links Deuteronomy 12:16 NIV • Deuteronomy 12:16 NLT • Deuteronomy 12:16 ESV • Deuteronomy 12:16 NASB • Deuteronomy 12:16 KJV • Deuteronomy 12:16 Bible Apps • Deuteronomy 12:16 Parallel • Bible Hub |