◄ 1 Samuel 14:32 ►
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Good News Translation
and so they rushed over to what they had captured from the enemy, took sheep and cattle, slaughtered them on the spot, and ate the meat with the blood still in it.

New Revised Standard Version
so the troops flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the troops ate them with the blood.

Contemporary English Version
They grabbed the food they had captured from the Philistines and started eating. They even killed sheep and cows and calves right on the spot and ate the meat without draining the blood.

New American Bible
So the army pounced upon the plunder and took sheep, oxen, and calves, slaughtering them on the ground and eating the meat with the blood in it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And falling upon the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the blood.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And falling upon the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the blood.

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1 Samuel 15:19 Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but hast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord?

Genesis 9:4 Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

Leviticus 3:17 By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

Leviticus 7:26,27 Moreover you shall not eat the blood of any creature whatsoever, whether of birds or beasts. . . .

Leviticus 17:10-14 If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face against his soul, and will cut him off from among his people. . . .

Leviticus 19:26 You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine nor observe dreams.

Deuteronomy 12:16,23,24 Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. . . .

Ezekiel 33:25 Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: You that eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance?

Acts 15:20,29 But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood. . . .

Context
Jonathan Eats the Honey
…31So they smote that day the Philistines, from Machmas to Aialon. And the people were wearied exceedingly. 32And falling upon the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the blood.33And they told Saul that the people had sinned against the Lord, eating with the blood. And he said: You have transgressed: roll here to me now a great stone.…
Cross References
Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.

Genesis 9:4
Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.

Leviticus 3:17
By a perpetual law for your generations, and in all your habitations: neither blood nor fat shall you eat at all.

Leviticus 17:10
If any man whosoever of the house of Israel, and of the strangers that sojourn among them, eat blood, I will set my face against his soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 19:26
You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine nor observe dreams.

Deuteronomy 12:16
Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:23
Only 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:

1 Samuel 15:19
Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but hast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord?

1 Samuel 14:31
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