Deuteronomy 15:23
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New International Version (©2011)
But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But you must not consume the blood. You must pour it out on the ground like water.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Only you shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But you must not eat its blood; pour it on the ground like water."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Only you must not eat its blood. Pour it on the ground like water."

NET Bible (©2006)
However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But never eat the blood. Pour it on the ground like water.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it upon the ground as water.

American King James Version
Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it on the ground as water.

American Standard Version
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water.

Darby Bible Translation
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof: thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

English Revised Version
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

Webster's Bible Translation
Only thou shalt not eat its blood; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

World English Bible
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.

Young's Literal Translation
Only, its blood thou dost not eat; on the earth thou dost pour it as water.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:19-23 Here is a direction what to do with the firstlings. We are not now limited as the Israelites were; we make no difference between a first calf, or lamb, and the rest. Let us then look to the gospel meaning of this law, devoting ourselves and the first of our time and strength to God; and using all our comforts and enjoyments to his praise, and under the direction of his law, as we have them all by his gift.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof,.... Of the firstling:

thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water; See Gill on Deuteronomy 12:16; see Gill on Deuteronomy 12:23; see Gill on Deuteronomy 12:24.

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Firstborn Animals
…21And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. 22You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. 23Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it on the ground as water.

Acts 15:20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
Genesis 9:4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
Leviticus 7:26 And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.
Leviticus 17:10 "'I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off from the people.
Leviticus 19:26 "'Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. "'Do not practice divination or seek omens.
Deuteronomy 12:16 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 12:23 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.
1 Samuel 14:33 Then someone said to Saul, "Look, the men are sinning against the LORD by eating meat that has blood in it." "You have broken faith," he said. "Roll a large stone over here at once."
Ezekiel 33:25 Therefore say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Since you eat meat with the blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land?